Renzi Cacnio from Malabon City works as a mushroom picker in Ontario, Canada. ABS-CBN News Ottawa ADVISORY ON ALLEGED JOB OPPORTUNITIES IN CANADA AS MUSHROOM PICKERS
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Toronto, Ontario Playwright wrote about her mother By Ted Alcuitas Ed’s note: We immigrated to Canada in 1968 and our first city was Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. At the time we settled in June, there were about 70 Filipinos in the city most of them nurses. While many moved on to other bigger cities like us, some
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Updated, April 12, 2018, 6:42 AM Vancouver, B.C. Alvin Erasga Tolentino is a class on his own By Ted Alcuitas Weaving the traditional ‘Malong’ with the ancient hand gesture ‘Mudras’, critically acclaimed Vancouver choreographer, Alvin Erasga Tolentino brings together seven dancers from Vancouver and Manila for its 18th season production of Collected Traces and
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In better times – President Rodrigo Duterte and Quiboloy shares a laugh before the falling out.(Rappler photo) ‘Son of God’ is Duterte’s biggest supporter By Ted Alcuitas The FBI is investigating the local chapter of Apollo Quiboloy’s controversial church for aggressive fundraising in Hawaii and possible human trafficking, The Inquirer reports quoting a Hawaii news
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Vicente Rafael shared Ezra Acayan‘s post. 7 hrs · Ezra Acayan photographs and reports on Good Friday in Navotas, land of many extra-judicial killings. Here, you can see how Hollywood and the aesthetics of EJK’s have inflected the performances of devotion into extreme rituals of bloody abjection. “No. This is not your favourite horror slasher
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Overseas Filipino workers say their goodbyes to their loved ones before leaving for another country to work. ABS-CBN News file photo ABS/CBN Rina Chandran, Thomson Reuters Foundation Posted at Mar 30 2018 09:17 AM PAMANTINGAN – When the rains failed in 2015 and drought gripped southern Mindanao in the Philippines, Corazon Vegafria knew what she
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MARCH 29, 2018WHATSINMYMOUTH In a quandary about Kulinarya on the Drive Monica Urrutia First impressions for Kulinarya on the Drive were all great! It opened promptly at 11 for our early lunch reservation. The restaurant was fresh and clean. Decor had a hip and modern Philippine vibe with great colours. The music was R&B
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Philippines Father Teresito Soganub, who had been held captive for months in Marawi, Philippines, cries as Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle of Manila washes his feet during the Mass of the Lord’s Supper March 29 in Manila. Father Soganub is vicar general of the prelature of Marawi. (CNS/Roy Lagarde, courtesy CBCPNews) Mar 29, 2018 by Catholic
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The couple Crisanta Sampang and Daniel Wood expresses thanks for the support. (GoFundMe photo) Vancouver, B.C. Daniel Wood sent email of thanks today: Friends: Almost a month ago Crisanta and I found ourselves caught in a terrible Catch-22. Her heart attacked required open-heart surgery in the Philippines, where she’d been briefly visiting. But
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Hundreds gather to protest recall of popular labour attache. (HK PINOY TV) Philippines Attache was recalled abruptly By Ted Alcuitas The recalll of a popular labour attache in Hong Kong has prompted a demonstration by Filipino workers against the move by the Philippine government. Jalilo Dela Torre was taken by surprise on Friday (March
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