Teilhard Paradela, more commonly known as Telly in the Philippines or Ty in Canada, completed his PhD in History at the University of British Columbia in 2022. Their dissertation is entitled, “Audiences Exposed: Communication and Discipline in the Philippines in the 20th Century.” They completed a Master of Arts, International Performance Research in 2010 at […]
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Joma has fallen not in battle but a natural death Teodoro ‘Ted’ Alcuitas Editor, PhilippineCanadianNews.Com Jose ‘Joma’ Maria Sison died on December 16, 2022 in The Netherlands where he has been in self-exile since 1986. He was 83. He died after a two-week confinement in a hospital, Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) spokesman Marco
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Winnipeg, Manitoba Until the Next Rising, The Final Storm! Levy Abad (Dec 17, 2022) To be hated by lords and oppressors To be calumnized by wolves Attacked by traitors and snakes Jailed, tortured, slayed by butchers Such is the path of revolutionaries To be embraced by the exploited workers Esteemed by enslaved serfs Wept upon by patriotic
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Winnipeg, Manitoba Promotion of heritage, multiculturalism in growing Filipino population By Charmaine Y. Rodriguez The Winnipeg School Division (WSD) is launching a Filipino bilingual program next school year with the goal of teaching subjects in Tagalog. The program will be for kindergarten and grade 1 students and it was initiated by the Manitoba Association of
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Winnipeg, Manitoba Damien Grayda leads 5-member team to victory Teodoro ‘Ted’ Alcuitas Winnipeg engineer Damien Grayda, a Lakehead University graduate, lead his team to a second place victory in the 2022 AISC-ASCE Student Steel Bridge National Finals held last May in Virginia, U.S.A. Grayda, a 2022 Engineering graduate of Thunder Bay, Ontario’s Lakehead University, lead
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Vancouver, B.C. Her love for basketball, filmmaking takes her places By Charmaine Y. Rodriguez Multi-awarded Filipino Canadian filmmaker Kathleen Jayme will be seeing her work again in wide screens all over Canada this winter with the nationwide screening of her feature film “The Grizzlie Truth.” A documentary that uncovers the reason why Vancouver lost its
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Vancouver, B.C. Merienda gathering at Collingwood Neighbourhood House at 3:30 P.M. Kathara Pilipino Indigenous Arts Collective Society (Kathara) is celebrating the year-end with a traditional merienda on Sunday, December 4, 2022 at the Collingwood Neighbourhood House on Joyce St. “Kathara Society calls upon our community stakeholders, those who support Indigenous Filipino Identities, who strive towards
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Eglinton, Ontario For contribution to the community and leadership by Tony A. San Juan, OCT. On the occasion marking the 70th anniversary of Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II’s accession to the Throne, several Canadians including six Filipino-Canadians in the Greater Toronto Area( GTA), Ontario, were awarded the “Platinum Jubilee Pin of Queen Elizabeth II”
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Regina, Saskatchewan Canada Health Minister: ‘Our recruitment plan is working’ By Charmaine Y. Rodriguez In an effort to reduce emergency room waiting times and give relief to overworked health workers in Saskatchewan, more than 70 nurses from the Philippines were hired to work in the province through a bridging program by the Health Ministry of Canada.
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Editor’s note: This month marks the 13th anniversary of the Maguindanao Massacre (also known as The Ampatuan Massacre ) on November 23, 2009 when 58 people (32 of whom were journalists) were massacred in an open field ambush. The killing of the 32 journalists is said to be the largest number of journalists killed in
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