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William Canera, one of the awardees of the 2023 B.C. Multiculturalism and Anti-Racism Awards, is flanked by Niki Sharma, the attorney general, and Mable Elmore, Parliamentary Secretary for Anti-Racism Initiatives. (photo from bc.gov.ca)

B.C. announces winners for 2023 anti-racism awards

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Vancouver, B.C. Filipino-Canadian planner gets honourable mention in Emerging Leader Award category By Charmaine Y. Rodriguez A Filipino-Canadian planning officer made it to the list of this year’s awardees in the 2023 Multiculturalism and Anti-Racism Awards. William Canero received an honourable mention in the Emerging Leader Award category where youth and young adults ages 15-30 […]

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Filipino-American CEO, lawyer, activist and philanthropist Loida Lewis will launch her memoir. (photo from loidalewis.com)

Widowed mom shatters notions of how trailblazing CEOs look and act

Arts & Culture, Events

Book launch of “Why Should Guys Have All the Fun?” is scheduled tomorrow By Charmaine Y. Rodriguez Filipino-American philanthropist, CEO and civic leader Loida Lewis will launch today her memoir to bring to the world an inspiring and uplifting story of how an ordinary person can rise to achieve extraordinary things. Loida Lewis is Chair

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Filipinos are the fastest growing immigrant group in British Columbia so the inclusion of Tagalog in the school curriculum is seen as a need. (photo from educatius.org)

Vancouver School Board welcomes Tagalog into curriculum

Arts & Culture, Canada News, culture, Education

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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Bao lovers line up to get their hands on Filipino-style baos during a pop-up store event in Square One mall. (from Bao Mama's Facebook page)

Filipino-Canadian mompreneurs wow crowd with baos in Ontario

Arts & Culture, Canada News, culture, Food/Restaurants

Mississauga, Ontario Pop up store draws lines of bao lovers By Charmaine Y. Rodriguez Over the weekend, bao lovers lined up to taste the Filipino hand-made bao buns at the Food District in Square One mall. The mompreneur tandem of Niña Abacan-Galarde and Elizabeth Buenaventura, owners of Bao Mama, were overwhelmed when they sold out

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Sugar Blooms and Cake's team won Food Network's Canada's The Big Bake competition. (from Sugar Blooms and Cake's Facebook Page)

Filipino-Canadian bakery’s team wins cake competition

culture, Food/Restaurants, Restaurants

Winnipeg, Manitoba Cake design that includes Philippine carabao and Canadian polar bear got top prize By Charmaine Y. Rodriguez A team from a Filipino-Canadian bakery won this year’s The Big Bake: Holiday, which is Food Network Canada’s baking competition. The team that represented Sugar Blooms and Cakes, located on McPhillips Street in Winnipeg, beat two

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Teilhard 'Ty' Paradela graduates with a Ph.D. in History at UBC. (Photo: Facebook)

The Class of 2022: Teilhard Paradela

Canada News, Education, Philippine News

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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Winnipeg songwriter and poet pays tribute to Prof. Jose Maria Sison

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Winnipeg, Manitoba Until the Next Rising, The Final Storm! Levy Abad (Dec 17, 2022) To be hated by lords and oppressors To be calumnized by wolves Attacked by traitors and snakes Jailed, tortured, slayed by butchers Such is the path of revolutionaries To be embraced by the exploited workers Esteemed by enslaved serfs Wept upon by patriotic

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Young students of Filipino descent will now have a chance to learn Tagalog in school. (Pexels photo)

Winnipeg school to launch Filipino bilingual program

Canada News, Education

Winnipeg, Manitoba Promotion of heritage, multiculturalism in growing Filipino population  By Charmaine Y. Rodriguez The Winnipeg School Division (WSD) is launching a Filipino bilingual program next school year with the goal of teaching subjects in Tagalog. The program will be for kindergarten and grade 1 students and it was initiated by the Manitoba Association of

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Damien Grayda proudly holds his enginnering diploma. (Facebook)

The Class of 2022: Winnipeg engineer leads team as top bridge buiders

Canada News, Education, Philippine News

Winnipeg, Manitoba Damien Grayda leads 5-member team to victory Teodoro ‘Ted’ Alcuitas Winnipeg engineer Damien Grayda, a Lakehead University graduate,  lead his team to a second place victory in the 2022 AISC-ASCE Student Steel Bridge National Finals held last May in Virginia, U.S.A. Grayda, a 2022 Engineering graduate of Thunder Bay, Ontario’s Lakehead University, lead

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Kathleen Jayme was only six when the Vancouver Grizzlies was established. She fell in love with basketball because of them. (photo from CBC News)

Fil-Canadian director’s film to be shown all over Canada

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Vancouver, B.C. Her love for basketball, filmmaking takes her places By Charmaine Y. Rodriguez Multi-awarded Filipino Canadian filmmaker Kathleen Jayme will be seeing her work again in wide screens all over Canada this winter with the nationwide screening of her feature film “The Grizzlie Truth.” A documentary that uncovers the reason why Vancouver lost its

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