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Couple recently arrived in Vancouver Searchers have recovered the bodies of a Filipino couple who drowned in a paddle boarding accident at Browning Lake at Murrin Park two days after they reported missing. Family identified the bodies as that of Genesis Jeru Bague, 33 and Mariz Bello who were joining friends for a birthday party […]

“…spellbinding in the way they transform small, quiet moments…” Calgary-based author and poet Renato Gandia wins the 2026 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers Poetry for his poem “In ‘Psalmody for the Estranged.” “In ‘Psalmody for the Estranged,’ Renato Gandia reminds us of the affinity between prayer and poetry, says the jury. The jury

United Way’s distribution method criticized Maple Bamboo Network Society returns $3000 Analysis Teodoro ‘Ted’ Alcuitas Editor, Philippine Canadian News Revictimized and re-exploited – says expert  A charitable organization expert said the Lapulapu Festival tragedy victims were “revictimized or re-exploited” when United Way BC did not fulfill its promises, said Kate Bahen, managing director of Charities

Updated: May 21, 2026, 8:11 PM   Gathering changed me by Lani Domaloy The afternoon was equal parts remembrance and reunion… There are events you attend, and then there are events that attend to you. The launch of Gathering Our Breath on May 17, 2026 at the Museum of Vancouver was the second kind. I

Analysis Teodoro ‘Ted’ Alcuitas Editor, Philippine Canadian News Nagka watak watak ang komunidad It was meant to be a ‘Day of Togetherness’ but instead it became a spectacle of divisiveness – exposing a gaping wound in the community. The event put up by Filipino B.C. last  April 19  to commemorate the tragic event on April

Toronto Ricardo Jorge Caluen Congratulations to my Editor! For so many years, the reckoning of the arrival of the first Filipinos in Canada usually starts in the year 1947. But even this immigration info is not accurate because Filipino immigrants were lumped with others falling under the general category of “Southeast Asians”. Fast forward to

Reprinted with permission. This article first appeared in https://salingpusa.com/– Calgary’s Literary Magazine As the keel meets the water: a contributor’s journey into Magdaragat By Renato Gandia When the acceptance email arrived, I was already standing at the edge of a different shore, imagining the day I would leave the familiar tides of corporate communications for

2nd Update: June 30, 2025, 5:52 PM Updated:June 30, 2025, 2 PM Vancouver, B.C. More than two months after the Lapulapu Day tragedy on April 26, 2005, lawyers are preparing to assist victims file their legal forms. Thru the initiative of Amici Curiae (AC) Friends of Court, lawyers will be trained to prepare themselves in