By Charmaine Y. Rodriguez A Filipina-American figure skater and her partner made history as the first pair from the Philippines and Southeast Asia to qualify for the world championships this year. Although they finished 18th among the 20 pairs who competed in the 2023 ISU World Figure Skating Championships in Japan, it was no small […]
Vancouver, B.C. Filipino-Canadian planner gets honourable mention in Emerging Leader Award category By Charmaine Y. Rodriguez A Filipino-Canadian planning officer made it to the list of this year’s awardees in the 2023 Multiculturalism and Anti-Racism Awards. William Canero received an honourable mention in the Emerging Leader Award category where youth and young adults ages 15-30
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Book launch of “Why Should Guys Have All the Fun?” is scheduled tomorrow By Charmaine Y. Rodriguez Filipino-American philanthropist, CEO and civic leader Loida Lewis will launch today her memoir to bring to the world an inspiring and uplifting story of how an ordinary person can rise to achieve extraordinary things. Loida Lewis is Chair
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Updated: March 21, 2023, 7:22 A.M. Toronto,Ontario (Editor’s note: Consistent with the Philippines’ centrist structure, well-known artists come from the centre – Manila. Very few from the south are recognized much less, women artists. Artists like Martino Abellana and Romulo Galicano from Cebu, Bert Monterona, a Lumad from Mindanao are but a few that doesn’t
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Updated: March 10, 2023, 8 A.M. Fort. St. John, B.C. Pinay sculptor continues family legacy in Canada Charmaine Y. Rodriguez and Teodoro Alcuitas The daughter of a well-known Philippine artist continues her family’s legacy as an artist and sculptor. Ovvian Castrillo-Hill,a mother of one who works and lives in the City of Fort
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Scarborough, Ontario ‘Novena- (2022) Marissa Largo In Patrick Cruz’s new work Novena (2022), the artist alludes to the devotional practice of nine days of consecutive prayer that many devout Filipinx/o/a Catholics partake in, usually to petition for special requests. For many Filipinx/os/as in the homeland and in the diaspora, devout Catholicism is syncretically entangled with
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Updated: March 6, 2023, 1:20 P.M. Author gives life to voices that are “rarely or never featured in Canadian literature” By Charmaine Y. Rodriguez Stories of Filipino families separated and reunited through the caregiver program will be in a novel this fall as Filipina Canadian author Jennie Austria-Bonifacio’s work found a home in one of
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Vancouver, B.C. Filipino education experts are creating the course to be taught starting next fall By Charmaine Y. Rodriguez Students of Filipino descent who wish to be bilingual now have a reason to celebrate. The Vancouver School Board unanimously approved the proposal to offer a Filipino language and culture course for students in grades 10
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Updated: Feb. 2, 2023, 9:o6 A.M. Teen from B.C. wows judges with his piano and vocal rendition of Billy Joel classic Charmaine Y. Rodriguez Described as a “natural talent” by his former vocal coach, 17-year-old Tyson Venegas gave American Idol judges goosebumps and moved another one into near tears with his version of “New York
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DE LIMA MARKS 3RD YEAR OF UNJUST DETENTION; DECRIES CONTINUED POLITICAL PERSECUTION AGAINST HER
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