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.

The Vatican’s Jura et Bona defines “euthanasia", or "mercy killing" as "an action or an omission which of itself or by intention causes death, in order that all suffering may in this way be eliminated."

A Filipino bilingual program, believed to be the first in Canada, is now being offered by Manitoba’s Seven Oaks School Division at its Arthur E. Wright Community School in Winnipeg from kindergarten to Grade 3.

The NDP’s Critic for Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship is urging the federal government to allow more parents and grandparents from other countries to join their children and grandchildren in Canada.

(This article is sponsored by the Asian Canadian Special Events Association, organizer of TaiwanFest.)

The Philippine Eagle Foundation (PEF) joins the 27th International Ornithological Congress in Vancouver (August 19 to 26) to save the Philippine eagle from extinction.

It’s more than just a parade. As organizers of the annual Vancouver Pride Parade put it, it’s a celebration, a protest, and a party.