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.

As a councillor in Kitimat, a town on the northwest coast of British Columbia, Edwin Empinado knows a lot about the Northern Gateway project.