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Provincial politics: Liberals nominate lawyer Paul Saguil for Willowdale

Ontario Dedicated community advocate The Ontario Liberal Party (OLP) has nominated Paul Saguil for the Willowdale riding for the next provincial election scheduled for June 2022. Saguil is Deputy Head of Sanctions Compliance and Anti-Corruption at Toronto Dominion Bank. He is an award-winning lawyer who has defended equality and human rights before the Supreme Court […]

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Primrose Madayag Knazan wins 2021 Canadian Jewish Playwriting Competition.

Winnipeg, Manitoba Author walks path from her Filipino mother to her husband’s Jewish religion By Charmaine Janis Rodriguez Filipina-Canadian playwright Primrose Madayag Knazan is the winner of the 2021 Canadian Jewish Playwriting Competition. Madayag Knazan’s work, “Precipice,” was chosen by the Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre, together with the Harold Green Jewish Theatre, Segal Centre

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Halalan -mga patakaran sa Overseas voting

Elections Commission issues guide 1.6 million expected to vote By Charmaine Janis Rodriguez The Philippine Commission on Elections (Comelec) released last January 18, 2022 the final list of modes for overseas voting for the May 2022 elections. Based on Comelec resolution 21-1431 dated December 16, 2021, the information provides a guide for over 1.6 million

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Two months after daughter taken by husband, mother still has no answer

Mariecar Jackson appeals for return of daughter. (Screen grab from CBC interview) Regina, Saskatchewan Police launch investigation, issue public appeal Teodoro ‘Ted’ Alcuitas A distraught mother has not seen her 7-year-old daughter two months after ex-husband took her away from their home in Regina under a court-ordered child custody arrangement. Mariecar Jackson, a Filipino-Canadian and

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Nina Lee Aquino first Filipina and woman of colour to head Canada’s English Theatre

Updated: January 13, 2022, 10:11 A.M. Ottawa Historic appointment Breaking glass ceilings in her career  Opinion Teodoro ‘Ted’ Alcuitas An outspoken and fierce advocate for diversity in theatre has been appointed to head Canada’s national theatre organization – the first Filipina-Canadian and first woman of colour to assume the position. Acclaimed theatre maker Nina Lee

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Politician’s wife explains side in ‘shovelling’ brouhaha

Winnipeg, Manitoba Cynthia Reyes appeals for understanding Teodoro ‘Ted’ Alcuitas In a Facebook post today ( January 10) the wife of the beleaguered Manitoba politician who has been pilloried in social media for posting a picture of his wife shovelling snow explains her side. Cynthia Reyes is with Jon Reyes. 41m  · Sorry in advance

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Conservative MLA Jon Reyes draws flak for tweeting his wife shovelling snow after a 12-hour hospital shift

Winnipeg MLA Jon Reyes, one of two Filipino-Canadian members of the legislative assembly is in hot waters for his tweet. (Photo: Manitoba Government) Winnipeg,Manitoba Manitoba Filipino politician “shows gratitude” for his wife by watching her shovel snow Opinion Teodoro ‘Ted’ Alcuitas A Manitoba cabinet minister’s tweet about his wife shovelling snow after a 12-hour nursing shift has ignited

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Priest says Omicron “the beginning of the end of the pandemic”

Philippines But public has to remain careful, he warns Teodoro ‘Ted’ Alcuitas The Omicron variant of COVID-19 may be “the beginning of the end” of the pandemic, but the public must remain cautious, a Dominican priest and microbiologist predicts. Citing a study, Fr. Nicanor Austriaco, a professor of biology at Providence College in Providence, Rhode

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Tennis: Lyla Fernandez is Female Athlete of the Year

Vancouver. B.C. Giant Killer By Charmaine Janis Rodriguez After an outstanding performance in the US Open tennis final last summer, Filipina-Canadian tennis sensation Leylah Fernandez was named The Canadian Press female athlete of the year and winner of the Bobbie Rosenfeld Award. “I’m very honoured to be amongst these athletes who’ve done so much for

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