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Child actor Liam Diaz is Best Actor.(Photo: CBC)

Breaking: Liam Diaz wins Canadian Screen Awards for leading actor

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Toronto, Ontario Beats  kababayan Rogelio Balagtas Teodoro ’Ted’ Alcuitas Thirteen-year-old Liam Diaz was picked best actor in a leading role in tonight’s 10th Canadian Screen Awards, beating kababayan Rogelio Balagtas. The young actor from Mississauga, Ontario thanked his family and the Scaborough family for his win. Diaz, one of the youngest actor to win the award,

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Child actor Liam Diaz is Best Actor.(Photo: CBC)

Movies: Teen actor gets nomination for best actor

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Missisauga, Ontario Liam Diaz’s role in ‘Scarborough’ based on novel by Catherine Hernandez Charmaine Janis Rodriguez FILIPINO-Canadian actor Liam Diaz is nominated as best actor in a leading role by the Canadian Screen Awards. He is 13. Yes, you’ve read that right. He is not nominated as best child actor but will be contending against

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Music: Edmonton’s ‘Himalaya’ in Top Five

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Edmonton, Alberta Himalaya – Self Discovery through Words and Music Ida Lucila  -Beltran  In the FilCan Music Awards to be held in Ontario this May organized by VibeAnt Magazine, an Edmonton artist is in the Top 5 for Solo Artist of the Year and Top 5 Song of the Year. The artist is Himalaya, and

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Film: Petition calls for overhaul of leadership at Knowledge Network

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Replace Executive Leadership at Knowledge Network: BC’s Public Broadcaster Equity Justice started this petition to Rachna Singh TO THE KNOWLEDGE NETWORK BOARD We, the undersigned, are a group of British Columbians of all ethnicities, who were distressed to read the recent funding audit of Knowledge Network, our provincial public broadcaster. The audit report revealed stunning

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“Musikahan ATBP (Variety Show) Alay sa Bagong Pag-asa”

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Seven cities collaborate in virtual concert Charmaine Janis Rodriguez Mark you calendars for Thursday, April 7, 2022, as supporters of Vice President Leni Robredo and Senator Kiko Pangilinan will promote their message of hope for a better Philippines through a virtual concert. Tropang Canada, together with Deva Dental Clinic, organized the event dubbed “Musikahan ATBP

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Sol Diana, Mildred German, Kimmortal, Patrick de Belen and Tim Lorica. (Photo: Vancouver Public Library)

Five Filipino Canadian voices share stories in online event

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Updated:March 19, 2022, 2:48 P.M. Vancouver, B.C. One Line at a Time: Filipinx Spoken Word Artists Five young Filipino Canadian artists will share how they overcome adversity in their lives through spoken word in an online event on Wednesday, March 30 at 6:30 PM. ‘One Line at a Time: Filipino Spoken Word Artists’ is  part

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A professor engages trolls

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Philippines LOOKING BACK Trolls and trolling By: Ambeth R. Ocampo – @inquirerdotnet Philippine Daily Inquirer / 05:05 AM March 11, 2022 Philippine Daily Inquirer is a news partner of Philippine Canadian News.Com A generation who came of age before the internet knows trolls as small, ugly creatures that lurk in Nordic folklore. A troll could also

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Author Primrose Madayag Knazan wins Canadian Jewish Playwriting Competition.

Primrose Madayag Knazan wins 2021 Canadian Jewish Playwriting Competition.

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Winnipeg, Manitoba Author walks path from her Filipino mother to her husband’s Jewish religion By Charmaine Janis Rodriguez Filipina-Canadian playwright Primrose Madayag Knazan is the winner of the 2021 Canadian Jewish Playwriting Competition. Madayag Knazan’s work, “Precipice,” was chosen by the Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre, together with the Harold Green Jewish Theatre, Segal Centre

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Nina Lee Aquino is the first woman of colour and first Filipino-Canadian to head a national arts theatre.(Photo: Cesar Ghisilieri Photography)

Nina Lee Aquino first Filipina and woman of colour to head Canada’s English Theatre

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Updated: January 13, 2022, 10:11 A.M. Ottawa Historic appointment Breaking glass ceilings in her career  Opinion Teodoro ‘Ted’ Alcuitas An outspoken and fierce advocate for diversity in theatre has been appointed to head Canada’s national theatre organization – the first Filipina-Canadian and first woman of colour to assume the position. Acclaimed theatre maker Nina Lee

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Author Catherine Hernandez’s work made into music

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Vancouver, B.C. Filipina-Canadian author Catherine Hernandez’s work ‘I Cannot Lie to the Stars that Made Me’ has been adapted into audio drama by the Vancouver-based the frank theatre co. It is free on line from January 7 to 16 at thefranktheatre.com. Hernandez’s previous work ‘Scarborough’ has been made into a movie. The frank theatre is

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