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Pumanaw: Atty. Arturo S. Alafriz Jr.

Vancouver, B.C. Pumanaw Arturo S. Alafriz, Jr., first Filipino to practice law in B.C. dies at 85 The first Filipino to be admitted to the B.C. Law Society died on Christmas Day (December 25, 2022) according to a Facebook post by family. He was 85. Arturo ‘Art’ S. Alafriz, Jr. was the first Philippine-educated lawyer […]

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Luz Del Rosario elected school board chair

Toronto, Ontario FILIPINO-CANADIAN TRUSTEE ELECTED  SEPARATE SCHOOL BOARD CHAIR By: Tony A. San Juan, OCT.   Luz Del Rosario, one of the longest-serving School Trustees in the Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board(DPCDSB) in Ontario, is elected Chair of the Board. A Filipino -Canadian serving as Trustee for Wards 6 & 11 in Mississauga, Del Rosario

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Music: Johann Derecho delivers

Toronto, Ontario YOUNG FILIPINO-CANADIAN ARTIST DELIVERS AWESOME PIANO PERFORMANCE AT RECITAL Oswald Magno In the first of two recitals required in the first year of Glenn Gould School’s Artist Diploma Program, Johann Derecho, a young Filipino-Canadian, delivered what many in the audience described as a masterful and stunning piano performance, with his repertoire of classical

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A poem about the The New People’s Army (NPA), armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP)

On the occasion of the passing of Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) founder Jose Maria ‘Joma’ Sison on December 16, 2022, I publish for the first time, a poem I wrote in 1998 after spending a week with NPA guerrillas in Negros. Negros Ka Leon As the hills of Negros raced into a faint

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The Class of 2022: Teilhard Paradela

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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Breaking: Communist Party of the Philippines founder Jose Maria ‘Joma’ Sison dies at 83

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 songwriter and poet pays tribute to Prof. Jose Maria Sison

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 school to launch Filipino bilingual program

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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The Class of 2022: Winnipeg engineer leads team as top bridge buiders

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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Fil-Canadian director’s film to be shown all over Canada

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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