March 1, 2024 — Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) recently released data showing the Philippines as one of Canada’s top markets when it comes to study permits.

 March 1, 2024 — Canada on February 21 formally opened in the Philippines its first agriculture office for the vast Indo-Pacific region.

February 16, 2024 — Transparency International, which defines corruption as the “abuse of entrusted power for private gain”, has released its latest Corruption Perception Index (CPI).

February 1, 2024 — The Philippines and Canada are boosting their defense partnership with a new memorandum of understanding (MOU) that could potentially see greater cooperation between their military forces.

February 1, 2024 — Canada and the Philippines are marking in 2024 the 75^th anniversary of diplomatic ties between the two countries.

February 1, 2024 – Following a recruitment blitz by the Province of Manitoba in 2023, 35 health care workers have arrived from the Philippines in January.

January 16, 2024 — Canada is supplementing its official development assistance or ODA to the Philippines by $15 million over the next number of years.

January 16, 2024 – Hard-working (masipag) is often an adjective attributed to Filipinos wherever they may be in the world. 

January 1, 2024 – In a much-awaited move, the province of British Columbia proclaimed December 18 as International Migrants Day (IMD). 

January 1, 2024 — Thanks to international migration, Canada’s population increased to 40,528,396 as of October 1, 2023.

December 16, 2023 — Canada has condemned China over “acts of intimidation” against the Philippines in the South China Sea, areas of which Manila refers to as the West Philippine Sea.

December 16, 2023 – A recently released study by Statistics Canada reveals that Canadian Filipino women had the lowest rate of self-employment at only five percent. Black Canadian women are slightly higher than Canadian Filipino women at six percent compared to their Korean counterparts who had the highest self-employment rate at 25 percent. 

December 1, 2023 — Canada is deploying a state-of-the-art surveillance system to help the Philippines protect its sovereign waters.

November 16, 2023 — The B.C. provincial government has passed new legislation that will benefit internationally trained professionals.

November 16, 2023 — Marc Miller, Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, has laid out Canada’s immigration targets for 2024-2026.

November 1, 2023 — Neri Colmenares, a former member of the House of Representatives in the Philippines, visited Canada and met with several Members of Parliament (MPs), elected officials, and government representatives regarding the situation in the Philippines.