Winnipeg,Manitoba Jia Garcia tops them all By Ted Alcuitas Jia Garcia, a Grade 9 student at Winnipeg’s Sisler High School is this year’s winner of Historica Canada’s Citizenship Challenge – a tough contest on citizenship that pits students from all over the country. The student who gets a perfect score gets to tour Ottawa
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Youtube Philippines Veteran journalist Inday Espina-Varona wins Hildegarde Award GoodNews Pilipinas March 5, 2016 Manila journalist Inday Espina-Varona has won the Hildegarde Award for writing, “They’re killing teachers and children, Mr. President.” – See more at: http://www.goodnewspilipinas.com/journalist-inday-espina-varona-wins-hildegarde-award/#sthash.XXHQGnoj.dpuf The veteran writer’s piece written as a letter to the country’s highest official, spoke about the plight of
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For the Love of Pageants: Gender, Sex, Colonialism By May Farrales, PhD Candidate, University of British Columbia (http://philippi.mywhc.ca/canada/colonialism-endures-in-basketball-and-beauty-pageants-says-researcher/) Why do Filipinos love pageants? I did not watch beauty pageants when I was growing up. I did not even watch the Miss Universe Pageant this year and only started following it to see how the news
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Homecoming: A Talk by Patrick Cruz February 29, 6:30-8:30 PM Multipurpose Room Liu Institute for Global Issues University of British Columbia Open to all The UBC Philippine Studies Series and Centre A is pleased to present a talk by Filipino-Canadian artist Patrick Cruz, winner of the 2015 Annual RBC Painting Competition. Cruz will present
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Vancouver Patrick Cruz mounts exhibit Vancouver, B.C. – The prize-winning artist Patrick Cruz, last year’s Royal Bank of Canada winner, will show Bulaklak ng Paraiso (Flower of Paradise) at Centre A from March 4 to May 7, 2016. Curated by Makiko Hara, the show will include a video screening of the works of the late
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Life moves on for ‘Kim’ By Ted Alcuitas Richmond, B. C. – After 25 years playing Kim in the classic Miss Saigon, Ma-Anne Dionisio is still not leaving the theatre, ready to tackle other roles that come her way. After playing the role for so long, she relishes the idea of being part of the
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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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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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