Editorial

 November 2020 - When family and friends have a birthday, we often wish them many more birthdays to come as though a long life is a great gift. Is it always desirable?  

I have many long-living relatives. My grandparents died at ages 95 and 88 in Pila, Laguna. 

Ten months into the year and the world is still wading through the pandemic.

COVID-19 carries with it unintended negative impacts on almost everyone’s state of mind, whether you’re a parent, a health worker, a teacher or a young adult whose once active social life came to a screeching halt. 

Canada celebrates Labour Day on the first Monday of September.

This year, the event falls on September 7.

August 2020 - "Canada is free and freedom is its nationality," proclaimed Canada’s seventh Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier. We Canadian Filipinos hope that those words will continue to ring true to this day and extend to our homeland, the Philippines. 

The summer of 2020 is unlike any other summer we have had before. 

 With the country still in lockdown mode, the usual favorite summer activities are out –  travelling to a “Must-see wonder of the world” or picnicking on the beach with many friends.

On May 22 this year, the Vancouver Police Department expressed heightened concern about rising anti-Asian hate crimes in the city.

Mother’s Day in Canada is celebrated every second Sunday in May.

It is a national holiday but not a public or bank holiday so businesses are open just like any other Sunday.

You don’t have to be a scientist to figure out that what has befallen the entire world these recent times will not go away as quickly as it is spreading.

COVID-19 has further upended an already topsy-turvy world. The virus knows no gender, country, age or social standing. It doesn’t choose who to infect. 

Dear Prime Minister Trudeau,

Citizens of the world recently commemorated International Women’s Day.

The world is marking International Women’s Day on March 8, 2020.

According to the United Nations, the theme of this year’s celebration is ‘I am Generation Equality: Realizing Women’s Rights’.

According to the Philippine Embassy in Ottawa,  of the 837,130 people in Canada with Filipino ethnic origin based on the census conducted in May 2016,

In Canada, it is called the Justice for Victims of Corrupt Foreign Officials Act (Sergei Magnitsky Law), passed in 2017 following the United States’ enactment of the Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act of 2012.