Our first winter in Canada – Saskatoon, Sakatcheawan 53 years ago. That is our first-born,Luningning then only 8-months old. (Corazon & Teodoro Alcuitas) First Photo Here: Share Your Immigrant Experience By Julie Matlin Interactive NFB Blog April 28, 2020 First Photo Here, a project out of our Vancouver Digital Studio, is a curated collection of […]
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Filipino The Board of Directors & Officers of SPIDS – Surrey Philippine Independence Day Society #SPIDS12yearsnow — with Marisse Magcawas, Hannalyn Dominga, PapaBear Canada, Coffee King Plus, Alejandro Sevillo, Doug Tingley, Rosita Duna, Alfonso Mendoza, Narima Dela Cruz, Jojo Rimando, Connie D Mend and Susan Natura at Holland Park Surrey. ( Photo: George Bencze) SPIDS
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Calgary, Alberta Roel dies, fundraising continues Teodoro ‘Ted’ Alcuitas Editor, Philippine Canadian News.com Roel Ocampo died yesterday evening (May 18) according to a post by his friend Joel Yana who started a GoFundMe campaign soon after the diagnosis of cancer. According to Joel, it was Roel’s wife Cris, who informed him of the death of the
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Vancouver, B.C. New cases are still being reported, anti-lockdown protesters are ignoring social distancing guidelines, and racist hate crimes continue by MILDRED GERMAN A closed salon in East Vancouver. An anti-lockdown flyer spotted in Vancouver. Unceded Territories (BC) – After Victoria Day long weekend, Canada is facing a new COVID-19 phase: the easing and lifting
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Editor’s note: Thirty years ago in 1990, it was the turban, then the nigab and now coronavirus. This is how we saw racism then. It is clear that racism lurks in the hearts of some people and it will always be. How well we respond to it depends on us. -Ted Alcuitas Editor, Philippine Canadian
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Regina, Saskatchewan Labour leader calls policy racist Teodoro ‘Ted’ Alcuitas Editor, Philippine Canadian News.Com A Filipino car executive said he “could not sleep” after witnessing a group of workers at Dollarama being berated by a manager for speaking in Filipino (not Tagalog as mistakenly called) in the store. Jay Bercades was in the store in
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Vancouver, B.C. An attack on one is an attack on all Opinion By Teodoro ‘Ted’ Alcuitas Editor, Philippine Canadian News.com A man shoves an elderly Chinese man out the door. In another incident, a man shouts racist slurs at a woman inside the skytrain and grapples with a bystander who tries to intervene. A woman
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Vancouver, B.C. Breaking glass ceilings Filipina-Canadian takes over as CEO for TransUnion Hong Kong Teodoro ‘Ted’ Alcuitas Editor, Philippine Canadian news.com Former Vancouver resident Marie Claire Lim-Moore was appointed Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for TransUnion Hong Kong on April 20, 2020 as the credit reporting giant relaunches its online consumer platform. “I am delighted and
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This article originally appeared at Inquirer.net on May 15, 2014. Photography on Mother’s Day By: Vicente Rafael – @inquirerdotnet Philippine Daily Inquirer / 12:04 AM May 15, 2014 Mother’s Day, which this year fell on May 11, was just a day after the fourth anniversary of my mother’s death. She would have been 89. When
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Calgary, Alberta Joel Yana of Calgary has started a GoFundMe campaign to help his friend Roel,who has been stricken with cancer. Joel writes: Hi everyone, I have set up a GoFundMe for my friend Roel Omampo. Last month he was diagnosed with Stage 4b colorectal cancer. The cancer is aggressive. It has spread to his
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