Canadian Filipino
Informing, Engaging and Connecting Community
This August 1st marks a full year since the Kapwa Storytelling Series began – a 24-part journey made possible by United Way BC. Over these 12 months, this newsmagazine has woven together voices of a diaspora moving through grief, resilience, and hope in the wake of the Lapu-Lapu Street Festival attack on April 26, 2025.
July 1, 2026 — Every community has a heartbeat, and ours is found in our preserved traditions and the Canadian Filipino experience. It lives in the traditions we refuse to leave behind, and it breathes in the threads we weave into our new homes every day.
March 16, 2026 - In a few short weeks, the Canadian Filipino community in British Columbia and beyond will reach the first anniversary of the April 2025 tragedy. This milestone represents more than a historical date; it is a profound psychological threshold. For many, the coming weeks are fraught with "social friction"—a painful tug-of-war between the "speed of resilience" (the push to move forward) and the clinical depth of care required for active mourning and justice.
January 16, 2026 — During a recent conversation, our Editor asked: “What to look out for in 2026 in Canada and the world and how could CanadianFilipino.Net (CFNet) provide our readers a broad overview about possibilities and expectations this year?”
August 2025 — The Canadian Filipino community will long remember the shocking human tragedy that happened this year on April 26 shortly after 8 p.m. when a driven black SUV hit a throng of children and adults still gathered at the site of the concluding Filipino Lapu-Lapu Day block party street festival in Vancouver.
April 16, 2025 - The critical 12-day home-stretch for Canada Election 2025 begins with this Canadian Filipino Net edition.
Winnipeg, February 1, 2025: “In this troubled world in these troubled times, each of us shall re-affirm our faith in peace and humanity.” Thus began our last year’s editorial, Palestinians and Israelis can live in peace, security and dignity, which closed with these statements: “May peace and humanity return to the region. It is our fervent hope.”
In this troubled world in these troubled times, each of us shall re-affirm our faith in peace and humanity. Two days ago, the governments of Canada, Australia and New Zealand – through their respective elected leaders – issued a joint statement that reflects the collective voice of their citizens on the world’s most urgent peace and humanitarian issue. This columnist has re-printed below the full Joint Statement as released in Ottawa on February 14th:
Featured elsewhere in this issue are the Editor’s takeaways from the written interview he conducted with University of British Columbia alumna and Asia Pacific Foundation research specialist Canadian Filipino Phebe Ferrer, a valued member of our community.
What should have been good news for Filipino nurses hoping to find greener pastures in Canada is now being met with criticism against Canadian provincial governments who have launched direct recruitment missions to the Philippines.
The countdown has begun for the 50th-year anniversary of the declaration of martial law in the Philippines.
In March 2018, House Bill 7303, "An Act Instituting Absolute Divorce and Dissolution of Marriage in the Philippines" languished on the Senate floor, its passage into law uncertain.
