Dr. Rey D. Pagtakhan, a lifetime member of the Privy Council for Canada and listed in Canadian Who’s Who, is a community volunteer and pediatrician-turned-politician.

A rookie and two incumbent Canadian Filipino members of the Manitoba legislative assembly won in the April 19, 2016 election in the province.

A group of Filipino women in Manitoba met last year to talk about the needs, strengths, and potentials of women in the community.

There are 12 Canadian Filipinos elected to public office as of today.

There's a growing awareness and excitement among Canadian Filipino voters to get involved in the country’s political process, says retired educator Tony San Juan.

In 2012, Jocelyn Curteanu became the first Canadian Filipino to win a seat in the city council of Whitehorse, the capital of Yukon.

Are you a Canadian citizen? Did you receive your citizenship within the last 365 days? Are you 18 years of age or older?

A landmark work of fiction about one of Canada’s biggest immigrant communities is off the press. Stumbling Through Paradise: A Feast of Mercy for Manuel del Mundo is the debut novel of Eleanor Guerrero-Campbell, a former urban planner who has worked with skilled newcomers in the country.

Shortly after the May 9, 2016 presidential election in the Philippines, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called the presumptive winner to congratulate him on his victory.

The Congress of the Philippine Associations of Alberta has taken action to help in relief efforts for victims of the wildfire that ravaged Fort McMurray.

Flor Marcelino, the first woman of colour to be elected in the provincial legislative assembly of Manitoba, has reached another milestone.

Jason Pinsoy is a fireman in Panglao, a municipality in the province of Bohol in the Philippines. He can't stop thanking Canadians for the 2015 donation of two firetrucks from Rotarians of Langley, B.C.

For two weeks in February 2016, 1,500 indigent Filipinos in and around Lipa City in the Philippine province of Batangas received free medical treatment from 100 Canadian, American, and Filipino volunteer health professionals.

Starting in September 2016, Canadian schoolchildren of Philippine ancestry in the Seven Oaks Division in Winnipeg will have the opportunity to learn more about their heritage in the Filipino language.

There are many stories about doctors and engineers immigrating to Canada only to end up in jobs like driving taxis, pumping gas, and cleaning offices.

The oil-producing province of Alberta is reeling from the effects of low prices for its natural resource. In 2015, Alberta lost 58,000 jobs. By the end of that year, the province’s unemployment rate rose to seven percent.