Winnipeg, Manitoba Beloved advocate succumbs to cancer Tireless community advocate Socorro ‘Coring’ Juan has died. Friends posted her death today ( February 12, 2024) of cancer. Active with her advocacies up and until her death Juan was advocating for cancer research and was featured in a Winnipeg Health Science Centre Foundation ad in March 2022. […]
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Vancouver, B.C. Victoria Casas-Alcuaz seeks representation Teodoro Alcuitas A Clinical Nurse Specialist for the Frail Elderly-Older Adult Network is seeking a nomination for the board of the Canadian Nurses Association (CNA), the governing body for Canada’s 460,000 nurses. This is the second attempt of Victoria Casas-Alcuaz, the clinical nurse specialist at Fraser Health Authority where
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Immigration Minister announces more changes in student visa program By Charmaine Y. Rodriguez Saying that the rapid increases in the number of international students arriving in Canada put pressure on housing, health care and other services, the Government of Canada announced a reduction of student visas by 35 percent for 2024. In a press conference
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Vancouver, B.C. Dr. Gabrielle Gaultier will do research on vaccines A young Filipina scientist has won the prestigious fellowship program from Moderna to study immune responses to Covid in Canadian children, the pharmaceutical company announced. “We’re excited to announce the first Canadian recipient of our Moderna Global Fellowship Program, from University of British Columbia. Dr.
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Accidental journalist Charmaine Rodriguez In time for the celebration of Philippine Heritage Month this year, members of the Filipino-Canadian community launched a book that explored their identities, experiences, histories, presents, and futures, and serves to re-enforce their cultural contributions. Magdaragat: An Anthology of Filipino-Canadian Writing is edited by our very own Philippine Canadian News Editor-in-Chief
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This group photo of the Impreso-Cadigal family taken in the 60s shows the whole family in their ‘togas’. All the six siblings graduated from univerisities. Nieves, a lawyer,married a lawyer and they have a grandson who is a lawyer. Corazon, an architect married an architect and they have a lawyer-daughter who is maried to another
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Updated: July 3, 2023, 9:05 A.M. No graduate journeys alone. Along the way, he or she is helped by parents, a brother or sister, a friend or anybody who is there to lend a hand. To give comfort when its needed or just listen. This month, we celebrate our graduates and honour their achievements whatever
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Becomes lawyer at 18 and first Filipino associate editor of Cambridge Law Review By Charmaine Y. Rodriguez For bringing honor to the City of Baguio and the Philippines, the City Council of Baguio passed a resolution recognizing and commending Jozef Maynard Borja Erece for being the youngest law graduate and practicing lawyer in the world.
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Vancouver, B.C. Filipino education experts are creating the course to be taught starting next fall By Charmaine Y. Rodriguez Students of Filipino descent who wish to be bilingual now have a reason to celebrate. The Vancouver School Board unanimously approved the proposal to offer a Filipino language and culture course for students in grades 10
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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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