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Filipino-Canadian professor co-hosts new PBS Voices show

“A People’s History of Asian America” premiered May 6 on PBS By Ysh Cabana  in Toronto U.S. public broadcaster PBS has begun streaming a miniseries highlighting Asian Americans. PBS Digital Studios partnered with the Center for Asian American Media in “A People’s History of Asian America” which premiered on May 6. The four-part educational show […]

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May 10-16, 2021 – International Nursing Appreciation Week

Vancouver, B.C. Each day, nurses work tirelessly to save lives, to comfort the sick and the dying, and to uphold frontline, social work, welfare to task, and in service in the name of God. Opinion Mildred German As a reading from the letter of Paul to the Thessalonians “We were gentle among you, like a

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First Filipino woman lawyer in Ontario heads new organization 

Updated: May 17, 2021, 12:20 A.M Toronto, Ontario  Alicia Natividad heads  Filipino-Canadian Lawyers Network (FCLN)  Teodoro ‘Ted’ Acuitas Editor, Philippine Canadian News.Com (PCN.Com) The first Filipina to be admitted to the Ontario Bar, Alicia Natividad, is heading the newly-formed Filipino lawyers in Canada – Filipino Canadian Lawyers Network –  Réseau d’avocats philippinos canadiens (FCLN). FCLN

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ANAK announces ‘ Liwayway’ scholarships

Winnipeg, Manitoba “Liwayway Scholarship for Leadership Excellence” Deadline: May 31, 2021 ANAK is pleased to present its 15th annual “Liwayway Scholarship for Leadership Excellence” to Filipino-Canadian students in Grade 12, who demonstrate a commitment to preserving and promoting Philippine heritage. Two (2) scholarships of $500 will be awarded in June 2021 To be eligible for this scholarship, the

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Confronting Anti-Asian Hate

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGQtaCyp8f8&t=13s “Eyes Open” The Chinese Canadian National Council for Social Justice (CCNC-SJ) has produced a moving video featuring Asian Canadian personalities in its effort to confront the raging anti-Asian hate engulfing Canada. Released on Asian Heritage Month, the video “Eyes Open” along with the hashtag #FaceRace includes personalities David Suzuki, Dr. Joseph Wong, Canadian lawyer Avvy

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Breaking: Carlo Escario allowed to stay!

3rd update: May 13, 2021,9:40 A.M. 2nd Update: May 13, 202, 8:45 A.M. 1st Updated: May 12, 2021, 4:32 P.M Toronto, Ontario He can stay until June 22 Teodoro ‘Ted’ Alcuitas Editor, Philippine Canadian News.Com in Vancouver and Ysh Cabana in Toronto Comments: Escario’s lawyer Natalie Domazet said “Elated by the news that the government

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Breaking: Canada will kick out Pinoy medtech by tomorrow, May 13!

Carlo Escario risked his life and Canada doesn’t allow him time By Ysh Cabana TORONTO (05/12/2021)-If Canada doesn’t give him an  extension , Carlo Escario will be gone by tomorrow, May 13, for an immigration mistake he has admitted to. The 36-year old frontline worker has worked as a hemodialysis assistant at Toronto General Hospital

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#StopAsianHate

Rallies Planned To Denounce Anti-Asian Hate Crimes Rallies have been held across Metro Vancouver as part of a National Day of Action Against Anti-Asian Racism. The rallies also seek to address “bystander silence”. Mildred German May 11, 2021 Unceded Territories – Dozens of planned rallies yesterday (May 10) have been held  from British Columbia to

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Federal politics: Could Paul Jonathan Saguil break the spell?

Brampton, Ontario Can this young lawyer be our next Member of Parliament (MP)? Analysis Teodoro ‘Ted’ Alcuitas Editor, PhilippineCanadianNews.Com Twenty four years after the first Filipino-Canadian was elected to Parliament in 1997, a Toronto lawyer is trying to break the spell and become the second to get elected. Paul Jonathan Saguil is seeking the Liberal

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Reflecting on the state of journalism in the “New Normal”

Reshaping media practice in the country By Ysh Cabana in Toronto Veteran Philippine journalists, all recipients of the Canadian embassy’s Marshall McLuhan Fellowship, discuss how the “perfect storm of crises” is reshaping media practice in the country. ABS-CBN news anchor Christian Esguerra, Rappler investigative editor Miriam Grace Go, and News5 editor-at-large Manny Mogato were panelists

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