Canada expects to receive 330,800 new permanent residents in 2019. According to the 2018 annual report to Parliament by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC), the number of new arrivals is projected to increase to 341,000 in 2020, and 350,000 in 2021.

On December 12, 2018, Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced the appointment of four new Canadian senators. The selection has filled all 105 seats in the Senate and brought to 49 the number of senators named by Trudeau since he became prime minister in 2015.

A coalition of non-profit and advocacy groups across Canada continues to advocate for migrant workers' rights, including caregivers, a year ahead of the expiration of the foreign care workers program in November 2019.

“Dance is the hidden language of the soul.” —Martha Graham

The B.C. legislative assembly has passed a new measure aimed at providing better protection for temporary foreign workers in the province.

Canada’s House of Commons on October 30 unanimously passed M-155, a motion officially designating the month of June as Filipino Heritage Month across the country.

The Canadian Race Relations Foundation (CRRF) celebrated its 10th biennial awards of excellence gala dinner at the Delta Marriott Hotel in Winnipeg on September 27 this year.

Community leader and Canadian Filipina professor Dr. Leonora (Nora) Angeles was recently honoured with a Civic Merit Award, one of Vancouver’s highest honours.

They’re the first Canadians of Filipino ancestry in Ontario to be elected to council in their respective municipalities.

A number of Canadian Filipinos emerged as winners in municipal elections held across the country in October this year.

Broadcast journalist Jeff Canoy is this year’s recipient of the Marshall McLuhan fellow for excellence in journalism. The award was presented to the ABS-CBN host on August 29 by a Canadian Ambassador to the Philippines John Holmes at the Asian Institute of Management in Makati City, Philippines.

The Philippine Cultural Arts Society of B.C. (Philcas) is holding a fundraising theatre production on November 3 at the Gateway Theatre in Richmond.

The Cannabis Act, also known as Bill C45, will come into effect across Canada on October 17. The Act allows the use of recreational cannabis under a legal framework that controls the production, distribution, sale and possession of cannabis in the country subject to provincial or territorial restrictions.

Canadian Filipino artist, comedian and activist Sean Devlin won the 2018 Vancouver International Film Festival’s (VIFF) Emerging Canadian Director Award for his debut film When the Storm Fades, a docudrama about a Filipino family whose lives were devastated by Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) in 2013.

The city that Mel Tobias so dearly cherished has honoured the late Canadian Filipino writer and arts lover.

Local elections are going to be held this fall in six Canadian provinces and territories.