Vancouver, B.C. We did not take a dip but enjoyed watching! Here are some photos we took. The weather was cooperating and was sunny. The English Bay Polar Bear Swim is one of the longest-running events of its kind in the world. In 1920 it started with less than a dozen swimmers. In recent years […]
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Richmond, B.C. Government to award Medal of Good Citizenship for this year’s winners for their service to their communities By Charmaine Y. Rodriguez Filipino-Chinese Canadian Winston Sayson, K.C., is among the 15 recipients of the 2022 Medal of Good Citizenship award given by the Government of British Columbia to exceptional community leaders who have shown
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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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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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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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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
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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