Toronto 17 years and still waiting – a caregiver’s elusive dream By Ted Alcuitas She will be 61 next month – 17 years after she arrived in Canada as a caregiver but she is still not reunited with her family, a problem caused by a bungling immigration bureaucracy, according to a Toronto Star story. She […]
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Inday Espina Feb. 16, 2016 THERE ARE NO SAINTS Stuff those yellow halos where the sun don’t shine. Like many, I will speak out and never tire of pointing out the atrocities of the Marcos dictatorship. This country can ever have enough of reminders and cautionary tales about the evils of dictatorship. But we must
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Luisa Igloria wins highest English language single poem competition. by Ted Alcuitas Filipina poet Luisa Igloria has been chosen as the first prize winner of the Resurgence Prize Poetry Prize—the world’s first major award for ecopoetry. With a first prize of £5,000 for the best single poem embracing ecological themes, the award ranks amongst the
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Richmond, B.C. Ma-Anne Dionisio & Jovanni Sy team up in Closer Than Ever By Ted Alcuitas A versatile director who performs and writes and an accomplished singer/actress are brought together Gateway Theatre’s production Closer Than Ever, now playing in Richmond until Feb. 20. Artistic director and Manila-born Jovanni Sy moved to Canada as a baby
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Owners Pamela and Sonny Florentin inside their Pinoy Heat restaurant in Regina. (Nichole Huck/CBC )
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In a photo taken September 22, 2013 during a passport outreach mission conducted by the Vancouver Philippine Consul General in Red Deer, a mixture of those who are awaiting to be called and those who are “chance” applicants, clog up the hallway of a hotel. Passport missions, which require an online registration to grab a
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City in Focus : Winnipeg By Ted Alcuitas We begin a new series highlighting different cities beginning in Winnipeg where we spent a week talking to personalities, visiting places and in a way, reconnecting to the place where we started our journalism journey four decades ago. We start with Fr. Geoffrey Angeles, the first Filipino-Canadian
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Fr. Geoffrey Angeles stands in front of Winnipeg’s St. Mary’s Cathedral where he serves as the first Filipino rector. JESSICA BURTNICK / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS Updated: March 4, 2021, 5:15 AM Updated:August 8, 2018, 2:00 PM Updated: October 23, 2017 Winnipeg Priest as Music Man By Ted Alcuitas ”I …thought his soul was in his fingers,”
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Ma-Anne Dionisio performs at Richmond Gateway Theatre’s production of Closer Than Ever. (Photo provided) Richmond, B.C. Tanyag Ma-Anne Dionisio takes on new role By Ted Alcuitas Arguably, Ma-Anne Dionisio is the best-known Filipino-Canadian singer whose roles in Miss Saigon, West Side Story and Les Miserables has put the Filipina in the theatre map worldwide. In
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Jose Osano (in Facebook photo) is recovering from a stroke but faces deportation. Calgary, Alberta Sick temporary worker faces deportation Jose Osano, a temporary foreign worker in Calgary, is facing deportation despite being hospitalized following a stroke last Dec. 11, according to the crowd funding site GoFundMe. The 46-year old father of three who hails
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