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Univ. of Winnipeg Professor Dennis Gupa wins honours.(Photo: John Threlfall)

Theatre: Dennis Gupa’s ‘Gossip with Whales’ wins Green Award

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Vancouver, B.C. “Gossip with Whales: Exploring Ocean Science through Applied Theatre” is Individual Artist Runner-Up Dr. Dennis Gupa and his unique artistic collaboration “Gossip with Whales: Exploring Ocean Science through Applied Theatre” is honoured by The Professional Association of Canadian Theatres (PACT) Inaugural Green Award this year as the Individual Artist Runner-Up. The honour was […]

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Breaking: Two Filipinos are among 20,000 dead in Turkey, Syria earthquake

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20,000 confirmed dead and help is needed urgently Teodoro Alcuitas A Filipina survivor of the recent earthquake in Turkey and Syria will recount her ordeal with The Filipino Edition, RedFM this Sunday, February 12. The mother of two is among 248 Filipinos registered with the Philippine Embassy, according to host Joseph Lopez of The Filipino

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Undated image of Benson Flores, the first Filipino to have settled in Canada in Bowen Island, B.C. in 1861. ( Image from the book 'Bowen Island - 1872-1972' by Historian Irene Howard )

Benson Flores: First Filipino to settle in Canada in 1861

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Vancouver, B.C. Broadcast journalist Joseph Lopez stumbles on hidden history A planned hike up Mount Gardner in British Columbia’s Bowen Island in May 2011 led to the accidental discovery of a piece of history buried in the pages of a book at the village library. That discovery led to a decades-long quest by the host

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TRUTH TRIUMPHS. Nobel laureate and Rappler Holdings Corporation President Maria Ressa arrives at the Court of Tax Appeals in Quezon City for the promulgation of four tax cases vs RHC, on January 18, 2023. JIRE CARREON/RAPPLER

Breaking: Maria Ressa wins tax case, still faces three pending cases

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Philippines Nobel peace Prize winner still faces other cases ’Today, facts win, truth wins, justice wins, ‘ says the embattled Nobel laureate Maria Ressa after being acquitted yesterday of four charges of tax evasion that were filed in 2018 by the previous Duterte government. In an 80-page decision, the Philippines’ Court of Tax Appeals (CTA)

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My mother, Petra Abes-Cabatuando, with my father, the late Judge Jose Reyes Cabatuando Sr., in Lucena City, Quezon province, mid-1930s. (Photo from the Abes-Cabatuando Archives)

Writer remembers her mother as a “hardheaded woman”

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Toronto, Ontario Hardheaded Woman Patria Cabatuando-Rivera My mother, in her prime, was a straightshooter; she wouldn’t mince words if she felt that it was needed. So, when Joe R and I decided to get married in the early seventies and asked for my parents’ permission and blessing, she told Joe R right off the bat

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Photos of today’s Vancouver Polar Bear Swim at English Bay

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Vancouver, B.C. We did not take a dip but enjoyed watching! Here are some photos we took. The weather was cooperating and was sunny. The English Bay Polar Bear Swim is one of the longest-running events of its kind in the world. In 1920 it started with less than a dozen swimmers. In recent years

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Pumanaw: Atty. Arturo S. Alafriz Jr.

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Vancouver, B.C. Pumanaw Arturo S. Alafriz, Jr., first Filipino to practice law in B.C. dies at 85 The first Filipino to be admitted to the B.C. Law Society died on Christmas Day (December 25, 2022) according to a Facebook post by family. He was 85. Arturo ‘Art’ S. Alafriz, Jr. was the first Philippine-educated lawyer

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Luz del Rosario is elected Chair of the Separate School Board, Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board. ( (Photo provided)

Luz Del Rosario elected school board chair

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Toronto, Ontario FILIPINO-CANADIAN TRUSTEE ELECTED  SEPARATE SCHOOL BOARD CHAIR By: Tony A. San Juan, OCT.   Luz Del Rosario, one of the longest-serving School Trustees in the Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board(DPCDSB) in Ontario, is elected Chair of the Board. A Filipino -Canadian serving as Trustee for Wards 6 & 11 in Mississauga, Del Rosario

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Johann Derecho recently graduated from the Glenn Gould School’s Artist Diploma Program. (Photo provided)

Music: Johann Derecho delivers

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Toronto, Ontario YOUNG FILIPINO-CANADIAN ARTIST DELIVERS AWESOME PIANO PERFORMANCE AT RECITAL Oswald Magno In the first of two recitals required in the first year of Glenn Gould School’s Artist Diploma Program, Johann Derecho, a young Filipino-Canadian, delivered what many in the audience described as a masterful and stunning piano performance, with his repertoire of classical

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A poem about the The New People’s Army (NPA), armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP)

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On the occasion of the passing of Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) founder Jose Maria ‘Joma’ Sison on December 16, 2022, I publish for the first time, a poem I wrote in 1998 after spending a week with NPA guerrillas in Negros. Negros Ka Leon As the hills of Negros raced into a faint

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