[Note from The Editorial Board: The CanadianFilipino.Net  is pleased to welcome journalist and arts aficionado Mel Tobias. Tobias writes his ‘Living in Canada’ column for the Philippine Star in Manila from his home base in Vancouver. He will contribute some of his reports to CanadianFilipino.Net.)

The Department of Canadian Heritage, through its Canada Periodical Fund/Business Innovation Component, awarded a contribution to the Maple Bamboo Network Society (MBNS), publisher of Canadian Filipino Net, to help raise awareness of the new digital periodical, which focuses on issues important to the growing Canadian Filipino community.

Filipino Christmas is never complete without the Christmas lantern or ‘parol’. On December 3, the ubiquitous parol took centre stage in the parol-making contest in Winnipeg, in preparation for the Paskong Pinoy in Canada on December 17.

In a speech at the Taste of Manila street festival, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke about multiculturalism:

Dr. Rey D. Pagtakhan was the first Canadian Filipino elected as Member of Parliament. He was a cabinet minister in the governments of then prime ministers Jean Chrétien and Paul Martin. Through this interview, the Canadian Filipino Net distills some pointers from his remarkable Canadian political journey.

The U.S.-based Center for Babaylan Studies and the Kathara Pilipino Indigenous Arts Collective Society in Canada are organizing a convention to draw attention to the bond between Filipinos and indigenous peoples of North America.

Genevieve Fontanilla was not unlike many newly-immigrated Filipino Canadian teenagers. She was smart, but had difficulty finding direction in the midst of upheaval that often characterizes the early years of the immigrant experience.

Dr. Rey D. Pagtakhan was the first Canadian Filipino elected as Member of Parliament. He was a cabinet minister in the governments of then prime ministers Jean Chrétien and Paul Martin. Through this interview, the Canadian Filipino Net distills some pointers from his remarkable Canadian political journey.

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.