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12 Canadian Filipino youths selected as interns on Parliament Hill

A dozen Canadian Filipino youths from across the country are learning the ropes of how Parliament ...

Editorial
Anti-Asian hate is racism reaching its boiling point
April 2021 - News and the impacts of Atlanta spa shootings in the US on March 16 reverberated quickly on Canadian shores with protest rallies happening in major cities like Toronto, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Montreal and Vancouver.
Beware of the infodemic: like a virus, it could fan out, spreading fake news
March 2021 – We’re not going to rehash the minute details, as many of you have probably heard of stories about Bill Gates and the COVID-19 pandemic.

Toronto public health chief Eileen de Villa speaks out against funding cuts

March 16, 2019 - A number of municipal groups, health coalitions and advocacy organizations have protested Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s cuts to provincial public health funding. Among them is ...

Study shows Filipinos sent more money abroad than other groups in Canada

Filipinos in Canada perhaps knew it intuitively, but were not exactly sure. If they felt that Canadian residents of Filipino ancestry were sending more money to their country of birth than other ...

Montreal women’s group PINAY gets federal funding to strengthen organization

The federal government has announced an investment of over $3 million for 10 women's organizations and Indigenous organizations in the Greater Montréal ...

Philippine embassy and consulates in Canada wrap up 2019 mid-term elections

The flurry of pre-election activities from calling Filipino citizens to register between December 2016 and October 2018 to the final stretches of the mid-term elections came to a slow-down on ...

Garbage issue causes more stink in Canada-Philippine relations

Until recently, Canada and the Philippines enjoyed warm and cordial bilateral relations. Then it began to sour about two years ago. In November 2017, while attending an international summit in ...

explorASIAN festival celebrates Canada’s rich cultural heritage

The annual explorASIAN festival, launched on April 27 at SFU’s Djavad Mowafaghian World Art Centre in downtown Vancouver, kicks off a May month-long ...

Canadian Filipinos invited to partner for change and development in the Philippines

In recognition of the role of overseas Filipinos in nation-building, the Philippine government established the Commission on Filipinos Overseas (CFO) in 1980 in order to engage Filipinos abroad and ...

Applicants under Interim Pathway for Caregivers eligible for open work permits: Government of Canada

Caregivers applying for permanent residency in Canada under an interim program are entitled to open work ...

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