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Breaking: Filipino-Canadian sentenced to life for drug trafficking

Canada News, Philippine News

Philippines Adik na confirm and sentensya By Ted Alcuitas A former Vancouver resident has been sentenced to life in prison for trying to smuggle ecstasy while on vacation to the Philippines in 2011,The Manila Times reported yesterday, August 31. The Philippine Court of Appeals (CA) affirmed the ruling of the lower court against Filipino-Canadian Jesse […]

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Kasaysayan at diwa ng Buwan ng Wika

Arts & Culture

Kasaysayan at diwa ng Buwan ng Wika Rappler.com Posted: 21 Aug 2017 MANILA, Pilipinas – Ginugunita ng Pilipinas ang Buwan ng Wika tuwing Agosto. Puno ng iba’t ibang aktibidad ang buwan bilang pagsaludo sa wikang Filipino at sa pagmamahal sa bansa. Kaakibat ng pagdiriwang na ito ang pagbalik-tanaw sa kasaysayan ng pambansang wika at ang

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Tula: Tagisan ng Talino

Arts & Culture, Canada News

In honour of Buwan ng Wikang Filipino which is celebrated in August, we post this poem by UBC Professor Leonora Angeles which appeared in  Ethnographic Poetry and Social Research: Problematizing the Poetics/Poethics of Empathy in Transnational Cross-Cultural Collaborations   Author’s note: The poem Tagisan ng Talino above was originally dedicated to Professor Ma. Cynthia Rose

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Jana Panem wins $10,000 Google scholarship

Arts & Culture, Canada News

Updated: August 18, 2017, 5:45 PM Her school also gets $10,000 technology award By Ted Alcuitas A Grade 11 student at Toronto’s  Madonna Catholic Secondary School in Toronto, Ontario has won the $10,000 university scholarship Doodle 4 Google award for 2017. Jana Sofia Panem’s ‘doodle’ will now be Google’s website image since last June. In

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Buwan ng wikang Filipino

Arts & Culture, Canada News, Philippine News

Philippines      Editor’s note:  August is celebrated as Language Month in the Philippines. This article by Thinking Machines is instructive in light of the debate as which is the correct way to call the Filipino language. Recently Statistics Canada released new findings on languages spoken and ‘Tagalog’, as has been commonly called, is again

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Professor wants Filipinos to own the telling of our histories

Arts & Culture, Canada News

Toronto, Ontario The Ethics of Honouring Other Lives The Philippine Reporter Community Opinion & Analysis Aug 15, 2017 at 8:42 pm Dr. Robert Diaz By Dr. Robert Diaz Assistant Professor University of Toronto I moved to Canada six years ago and, for the most part, I’ve lived a life that seems unimaginable for an immigrant

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Blogger: “Let go of Romeo Marquez”

Arts & Culture, Canada News

Toronto, Ontario Ed’s note: The on-going controversy between Senator  Tobias Enverga, Jr.,  members of the Filipino community and Balita newspaper and its publisher Tess Cusipag, have forced a former lawyer and blogger to come out of retirement. In this piece he wrote for The Philippine Reporter, Joe Rivera makes a plea to Cusipag to let go

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Raising a Biracial Child: Identity in a Multi-Racial Family

Arts & Culture, Canada News

Edmonton, Alberta CULTURAL DIVERSITY By Mila Bongco-Philipzig   “ “Mom, are we moving to another country again?” my then 7-yr old son asked me after we had been in Canada for about 6 months. We had just come after a 2-year stay in Malaysia. Before that, we were in Germany. “I don’t like being the

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Breaking: Disabled Pinay temporary worker wins immigration battle

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

Edmonton, Alberta Paralyzed  worker granted permanent residency By Ted Alcuitas She was left paralyzed and could not walk after she was hit by a car biking to work five years ago. Vicky Venancio was working for McDonald’s when she arrived in Edmonton in 2011 as a foreign temporary worker and had high hopes of obtaining

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Winnica Beltrano gets Terry Fox humanitarian award

Canada News

Winnipeg, Manitoba Filipina student receives prestigious award By Ted Alcuitas A second year health science student from the University of Calgary has won one of 20 awards for the prestigious Terry Fox Humanitarian Award. Winnica Beltrano almost missed the call informing her of the award, she told The Winnipeg Sun. “I woke up a little

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