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The author at the Fort San Pedro Gallery in Cebu City.

500 Years of Christianity: Magellan, Not An Explorer, But A Colonizer

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Opinion Mildred German  Vancouver,B.C. Updated: April 29, 2021, 4:40 P.M. It was on April 27, exactly 500 years ago, when Datu LapuLapu and his warriors killed Portuguese colonizer Ferdinand Magellan (Fernão de Magalhães). This remarkable historical event not only highlights the battle of the natives of the archipelago against the expansion of the Spanish colonial […]

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Ph. D. student Maria Socorro Mangila-Nguyen studying Filipino youths. (Photo provided)

Kumustahan/Kwentuhan: Researcher seeking Filipino youths to interview

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Vancouver, B.C. Teodoro ‘Ted’ Alcuitas Editor, Philippine Canadian News.Com (PCN.Com A Filipina scholar who is finishing her doctorate at the University of Calgary is seeking participants for a research she is conducting. Maria Socorro Mangila-Nguyen is looking for  Filipino high school youths in Vancouver to participate in a research project about their early years in

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Sa Victoria : ‘Ilaw’ relaunched

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Victoria, B.C. New Website and Newsletter By Victoria’s Filipino-Canadian Community Relaunched The non-profit organization Victoria-Filipino Canadian Association (VFCA) continues their work amidst the COVID-19 pandemic Mildred German Continuing their work amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, in uplifting the lives of Filipinos and their families in Victoria, BC, the Victoria-Filipino Canadian Association (VFCA) relaunches their new website

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Filipina-Canadian actress Jessalyn Wanlim plays Jenny in CBC's Workin' Moms. (CBC photo)

“I never saw anybody like me on the screen” : actress Jessalyn Walim

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Updated: April 19, 2021, 8:15 A.M. Vancouver, B.C. She loves playing characters that represent her culture   Teodoro ‘Ted’ Alcuitas Editor, Philippine Canadian News.Com (PCN.Com) “Growing up, I never saw anybody like me on the screen,” and being “able to play this character and representing my culture, I think that’s the one thing that I

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Film: Kimmortal premieres ‘Submerged’

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  Vancouver, B.C. Kimmortal Kimbo Bince Villagante https://linktr.ee/kimmortal TODAY marks exactly 2 YEARS since I released “X marks the Swirl”! Thank you for being here to celebrate with me! This film is created to my track Submerged. A song that I have been told has given people the space to cry and grieve. This song

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Major media outlets enter Filipino market

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Toronto,Ontario CBC Radio seeks Filipino Senior Writer in Toronto Analysis Teodoro Alcuitas Editor philippinecanadiannews.com Canada’s public broadcaster is seeking a Filipino-Canadian for a Senior Writer position at its Toronto office. CBC/ Radio Canada is seeking a writer for its ‘Tagalog’ section  whose duties include filing for multiple platforms – “primarily or digital, but also occasionally

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Celebrating the quincentenary of Christianity in the Philippines

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A Feast Fit for a Rajah Jan Dominic Tarroja Umengan poses beside a large table groaning with favorite Filipino dishes as he calls out the rest of his family—party of 18—to celebrate the quincentenary of Christianity in the Philippines. “Nic” is soaking up the religious and historic significance of 500 years of the Catholic Faith

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Isobel Rivera joins webinar panel 

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Updated:March 15, 2021,6:26 AM International Womens Month In celebration of ##InternationalWomensMonth #FINEXPhils through the Women in Finance Committee presents a #freewebinar on “Global Leadership at its Best” on March 18, 2021at 10:00AM – 11:45AM Register now: https://us02web.zoom.us/…/reg…/WN_PZ2_HBxYTkia2JSKf5mkcg Rivera is Regional Head of Partnerships, Advocacy and Communications, UN WomenHead of Partnerships and Resource Mobilization, UN Women

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Winnipeg’s Bahay Perlas breaking stigmas against Drag Culture

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Winnipeg, Manitoba Collective seeks to break stigma Mildred German Winnipeg, Manitoba – Bahay Perlas (House of Pearls) is the first of its kind in Winnipeg, MB. It is a welcomed space to break stigmas against drag culture. It is a collective that welcomes drag and non-drag artists. Such that the unique approach is necessarily timely.

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“Not Your Exotic” panel at Ryerson University

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Toronto, Ontario East and Southeast Asian women addresses gender-based violence Mildred German With the long history of Asian communities being targeted, exoticised, being used as cheap labour, and labeled as the “model minority,” 2020 saw a nearly doubled increase in anti-Asian attacks and vandalism. On March 4, 2021, ​activists, advocates and writers presented East and

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