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Magdaragat lands on Amazon's Most Wished For list as the #1 in Asian Canadian works. (from Amazon website)

Breaking: Filipino-Canadian anthology takes #1 spot in Amazon’s bestseller list

Canada News, culture, Events

Book authors will hold in-person launches this November By Charmaine Y. Rodriguez The first ever anthology of Filpino-Canadian writers grabbed the number one spot on Amazon’s Most Wished For books in the Asian Canadian Literature category today. Edited by Teodoro Alcuitas, C.E. Gatchalian, and Patria Rivera, who also contribute to the volume, Magdaragat: An Anthology of Filipino-Canadian Writing features […]

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Canada launches pilot for group hiring in Manila

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Streamlined work permit process to help Canadian employers recruiting 50 or more employees By Charmaine Y. Rodriguez To fast track the hiring of a group of employees for critical jobs, the Government of Canada launched a streamlined work permit processing for its immigration office in Manila, Philippines. Marc Miller, Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, announced

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Filipino-Canadian Malaya Marcelino gestures to the crowd as she is sworn in as Manitoba's newest Labour and Immigration Minister. (screen grab from CBC News)

Breaking: Malaya Marcelino is Manitoba’s Labour and Immigration Minister

Canada News, Politics

She is one of the 8 people of colour in Premier Wab Kinew’s Cabinet By Charmaine Y. Rodriguez Malaya Marcelino was sworn in as Manitoba’s Labour and Immigration Minister and part of a very diverse cabinet of the province’s 1st First Nations Premier Wab Kinew Wednesday morning. Marcelino was first elected in 2019 and had

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Reuniting with Strangers is a novel which translates author Jennilee Austria-Bonifacio's decades of work with Filipino newcomers into a powerful fiction. (photo from Omni News report)

Book about Filipino diaspora in Canada launched

Arts & Culture, Canada News, Events

Author Austria-Bonifacio was a Jim Wong-Chu Emerging Authors Award finalist By Charmaine Y. Rodriguez A Filipino father ironically seeking a caregiver since all his children are abroad. A woman’s emotional struggle as she takes care of her sister’s children in the Philippines while the latter works in Canada. These are just some of the stories

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Fil-Canadian family’s restaurant lands a spot in Michelin Guide

Arts & Culture, Canada News, Food, Restaurants

Restaurateur Jonathan Lee wanted to make his grandfather proud By Charmaine Y. Rodriguez Michelin released its Vancouver Guide and Little Bird Dim sum + Craft Beer in Kitsilano is one of those that made it. The 54-seater restaurant is being run by Jonathan Lee, the son of Filipino-Canadian restaurateur Joseph Lee, who owns the iconic

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Canada records highest population growth since 1957

Canada News, immigration

StatCan reports over 1 million new immigrants from July 2022 to July 2023 By Charmaine Y. Rodriguez After its celebration for hitting the 40-million mark on June 16, Canada’s population was estimated at 40,097,761 on July 1, 2023, an increase of 1,158,705 from a year before. According to Statistics Canada, this was a growth of 2.9% from July 1, 2022 and was

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Canadian immigration authorities intercept former Philippine police chief

Canada News, International News, Philippine News, Politics

General Azurin arrived at the Langley airport in BC and “voluntarily” returns home after questioning By Charmaine Y. Rodriguez The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Wednesday confirmed that former Philippine National Police (PNP) chief General Rodolfo Azurin Jr. was intercepted by immigration authorities upon his arrival at the Langley airport in British Columbia, Canada.

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Poet Patria Rivera joins in from Toronto with C.E. Gatchalian, Leah Ranada and Teodoro Alcuitas in Vancouver. (Photo: Allan Cho, ACWW)

First Filipino-Canadian anthology introduced in Vancouver book fest

Arts & Culture, Canada News, culture, Philippine News, Politics

Vancouver, B.C. Word Vancouver features writers behind upcoming book Invisible No More: Filipino Words  Charmaine Y. Rodriguez The extraordinary journeys of various Filipino-Canadians and meaningful stories about their families were compiled into a special book that will be launched this November by Cormorant Books. And for the first time, ‘Filipino Words’ are invisible no more

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Basketball: Canada wins historic First Basketball World Cup Medal

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Vancouver, B.C. Philippines wins against China, booked last ticket for Olympic qualifiers Mildred German Team Canada’s Senior Men’s Basketball National Team concludes the 2023 FIBA World Cup with a historic win- its first medal, a bronze, on September 10, 2023 in Manila, Philippines after a bout with the United States. Competing and winning in the

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Two enemies met, Ressa and Duterte. (Bayan Muna image)

Breaking: Maria Ressa wins tax evasion case, awaits two more

Canada News, International News, Philippine News, Politics

Vancouver, B.C. Victory for press freedom Nobel prize winner and co-founder of the online news site  Rappler, Maria Reesa , has been acquitted of tax evasion, another legal victory in her battle against multiple charges filedduring th government of former president Rodrigo Duterte. She has long maintained the cases against her and Rappler, which she

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