Ted Alcuitas

Breaking: Winnipeg launches first Filipino bilingual curriculum

Arts & Culture, Canada News, Education

Ivy Lopez Sarmiento’s twin daughters will now have the opportunity to attend a Filipino bilingual kindergarten program next fall with the recent announcement of its approval. (CBC) Winnipeg, Manitoba/Toronto, Ontario First in Canada but Toronto has a Filipino-centered curriculum By Ted Alcuitas The first Filipino bilingual program in Canada will launch this fall in Winnipeg’s […]

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Duterte nang bastos na naman sa simbahan

Canada News, Philippine News, Politics, Religion

PILIPINAS   POLITIKO politics.com.ph Last updated Jun 8, 2018 Duterte calls Catholic faith a ‘farce,’ ‘fucking shit’: Your doctrines make God look stupid! “I cannot believe in the basic tenets of the Catholic church. It is really a — portraying God to be so stupid,” said Duterte in a press briefing in Cebu. He urged

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SPIDS celebrates 10th year in Surrey

Canada News

The Philippines declared independence from Spain in 1898. Surrey, B.C.   The Surrey Philippine Independence Day Society (SPIDS) again hosts this year Philippine Independence Day celebrations with ‘PASALAMAT’ – a reunion and recognition for its ten years of running the annual event. Founder Narima Dela Cruz invites kababayans and their friends to come to Bridgeview

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Ingatan ang pag-gamit ng internet

Canada News, Foreign Temporary Workers, Live-in Caregivers (LCP), OFWs

Free interactive discussion how to protect yourself from cyber criminals. Learn how to spot malicious emails, best practices on social media, creating passwords and much more. On June 17 from 1-3 pm at St. Mary’s Parish, Vancouver.

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June 7th: National Migrant Workers Day

Canada News, Foreign Temporary Workers, International News, Live-in Caregivers (LCP), OFWs, Opinion, Philippine News, Politics

Filipinas dining out at a Philippine restaurant in Adelaide, Australia. Photo: Jeremaiah Opiniano Updated                                                                                   

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Breaking: Leticia Sarmiento, who won Canada’s first trafficking case dies

Canada News, Foreign Temporary Workers, Live-in Caregivers (LCP), OFWs

Leticia Sarmiento died June 5 after a long battle with cancer. (Facebook photo, Darla Tomeldan) Updated:June 8, 2018, 12:23 PM Updated: June 7, 2013, 9 AM Vancouver, B.C. A woman of strength By Ted Alcuitas The woman who won the first human trafficking case in Canada died yesterday (June 5) of brain cancer at a

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Philippines celebrates National Migrant Workers Day

Canada News, Foreign Temporary Workers, International News, Live-in Caregivers (LCP), OFWs, Philippine News, Politics

“Filipinas dining out at a Philippine restaurant in Adelaide, Australia.” (photo by Jeremaiah Opiniano) Has the conditions  of Filipino Overseas Workers (OFWs) improved since the hanging of Flor Contemplacion in 1955 in Singapore? Can they “chart newer tales and tumble down aging stereotypes of themselves?” A Filipino doctoral student in Australia contemplates a new future. By

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Breaking: Man charged in Pinay’s murder

Canada News

Rhoderie ‘Dherie’ Estrada was found  in her home with “obvious signs of trauma”. (Facebook) Toronto, Ontario Mother of three found killed in own home By Ted Alcuitas A Filipina mother of three was killed on May 26 in her home in her home on Torrens Ave. in East York. Nurse Rhoderie Estrada, 41, was found dead

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The Class of 2018

Canada News, Education

Phebe Ferrer smiles back at graduation ceremonies at UBC on May. 2018. (Photo: FB) Updated: January 21, 2019, 1:30 PM The Class of 2018 By Ted Alcuitas It is that time of year again when we honour and celebrate the graduates who have made the grade – whether in elementary, undergrad or post-graduate. Graduation is

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Toronto, Montreal &Edmonton celebrate first Filipino Heritage Month

Arts & Culture, Canada News

The late Senator Tobias Enverga, Jr., the first Filipino to be appointed to the Senate of Canada celebrates Philippine Independence with Filipinos in Toronto. (Senate photo) Filipinos across the country jubilant over proclamations By Ted Alcuitas Three cities across Canada are celebrating Filipino Heritage Month for the first time this year when their respective city

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