Inday Espina-Varona Follow scaRRedcat Veteran, award-winning journalist, former chair of the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines, and Knight Intl Fellow at Stanford Posted, July 18, 2020, 1 hr. Good morning, friends. It’s heart-warming to see people standing up and speaking out, online and onground, in defense of press freedom and free expression. It […]
(Editor’s note: Fr. Picardal was in hiding in 2018 for fear of his life. A Google search do not show if he is still in hiding. Fr. Picardal is not the only high-profile priest threatened by Duterte. He also wanted Bishop Pablo ‘Ambo’ David killed for criticizing EJK’s ) Rappler.com CATHOLIC CHURCH [OPINION] Why did priests
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One racist act begets another on Vancouver bus as Filipino man told to ‘speak English’ Another racist incident that could go unsolved Opinion Teodoro Alcuitas Editor, philippinecanadiannews.com A Filipino passenger on a Vancouver Transit bus was subjected to a racist slur and told to speak English by a woman passenger. “You f***ing people.
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https://www.facebook.com/narimadc/videos/10216512678065767 2nd Update: July 3, 2020, 6:45 AM Updated: July 2, 2020, 9:53 PM Surrey, B.C. Surrey’s Glisha Dela Cruz holds record for singing Oh Canada for 12 consecutive years in a Canada Day celebration Teodoro Alcuitas Editor philippinecanadiannews.com A 19-year old songstress has literally grown up on the stage of the Fort Langley Canada Day
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Philippines Announcement surprises media community Analysis By Teodoro Alcuitas Editor, philippinecanadiannews.com In a terse one-sentence notice in his Facebook page today (yesterday in the Phiippines), long-time editor-in-chief Joel Pablo Salud of the Philippines Graphic caught everybody by surprise as they woke up this morning. “I regret to inform everyone that as of today, I am
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Updated: June 30, 2020, 6 AM Vancouver, B.C. The son of a high school dropout, he will proceed to a Master’s Program Mildred German Unceded Territories – Canadian born and raised queer Filipino youth and community advocate, William Canero, graduates with a B.A in Political Science from the University of British Columbia (UBC). He wrote
Port Coquitlam, B.C. The graduate with proud parents Jacqueline Vilar and Brian Adams, brother Lucas and sister Vanessa.(Photo provided) Julia-Soleil Vilar Adams graduated from the French Immersion Program at Archbishop Carney Reguonal School in Port Coquitlam. She is a First Honours Student and was on the Principal’s list for high academic achievement. Very versatile and
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Burnaby, B.C. A family tradition of studying at the St. Thomas More Collegiate STMC) was recently repeated with the graduation of Gabe Nacario. The Catholic-run secondary school was home to Dad Percy (1989) uncles Rey (1987) and Remuel (1991) as well as elder brother Nathaniel (2018). A senior point guard of Burnaby’s Knights, Gabe
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LGBTQ Nation Bill Browning, June 29,2020 As Mayor Bill de Blasio tweeted about honoring Stonewall, the NYPD was unleashing pepper spray on LGBTQ people dancing in celebration. The NYPD may have apologized last year for raiding the Stonewall Inn, spawning days of riots and police brutality, but they apparently haven’t decided to stop the behavior.
