Amanda Parafina has been leading the Vines Festival for three straight years. (Photo: Vines Art Festival) Updated:October 14, 2022, 3:32 P.M. Vancouver, B.C. Filipino brilliance at the 8th Annual VINES Art Festival Stage manager and producer Amanda Parafina, a second generation Filipino in Canada brings her talents to the multi-awarded VINES Art Festival which gathers […]
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Independent Surrey candidate makes final push to victory. (Photo: Narima Dela Cruz Facebook) Updated: October 13, 2022, 6:15 P.M. Narima Dela Cruz hopes to be the first Filipino-Canadian city councillor for Surrey With just two days to go for the elections on Saturday, October 15, Independent Surrey candidate Narima Dela Cruz is not leaving anything
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Donato Dalayoan in front of the window of The Chamber offices which he designed. (The Chamber photo) Winnipeg, Manitoba Jonato Dalayoan transforms Portage & Main’s barricades By Charmaine Y. Rodriguez If you feel homesick when you see the barricades at Portage and Main, it’s because you’re seeing something Filipino design-inspired. A new mural painted on
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Gilda Macarine broke into tears as she faced media on the death of her mother. (CBC News photo) Montreal “Mom was abandoned…” Gilda Macarine, who is a nurse herself, believes what happened to her mother was “the result of wilful and gross neglect.” Opinion Mildred German Over a year after 86-year-old Filipino mother and grandmother
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Updated: October 11, 2022, 9:20 P.M. She came to Canada as a three-year old. Now she wants to be your Burnaby City Councillor. She is running under the Burnaby Citizens Association (BCA) and is calling for voters to vote for the whole team. Burnaby Citizens Association to run diverse candidate team The Burnaby Citizens Association
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Dawson, B.C. Critical condition By Charmaine Y. Rodriguez The two Filipino-Canadian mothers who tried to protect their family and each other from a “rare predatory bear attack” in Dawson Creek, B.C. on Monday are still in critical condition, their families reported. Leosette “Cheng” Canoy and her friend, Analyn Shurtliff Bartolome, were critically injured by a male black
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Vancouver, B.C. Welcomed by travel industry By Charmaine Y. Rodriguez FILIPINO Canadians in the immigration industry welcomed the lifting of Covid-related travel restrictions in Canada recently and saw it as a way of helping travellers deal with the challenges that come with moving to a new country. As of October 1, 2022, travelers to Canada
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Vancouver, B.C. A mother’s love of peeling mango for her baby By: Ria Santos In a time where representation in media matters, actor, screen writer, charity founder, and now author, Xavi de Guzman brings to the world the children’s book Peeled Fruit. The story as old as time about a mother’s love language of peeling
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The veteran activist is putting her experience on the political front. (Facebook) Updated… Burnaby, B.C. From community organizing to politics Analysis Teodoro ‘Ted’ Alcuitas Editor, PhilippineCanadianNews.Com For someone who has been ‘with the people’ all her adult life, going into politics is not a big leap of faith. Maita Santiago got involved in the Filipino
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2nd update: October 5, 20222, 6:30 P.M. Updated:October 4, 2022, 2:10 P.M. Surrey, B.C. Years of community involvement and advocacy brings her to the political arena Charmaine Y. Rodriguez Well-known community leader Narima Dela Cruz is seeking a council seat in the Surrey municipal elections this October 15. Dela Cruz is the current president of
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