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Leni Robredo greets supporters at her birthday grand rally at Pasay City yesterday.

Breaking: Robredo turns 57th, on the cusp of being elected President

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Happy birthday Madam President-in-waiting! Opinion Teodoro Alcuitas Editor, Philippine Canadian News.com A heart-warming video shared by daughter Jillian greeting her mother on her birthday. (Youtube) Today, as she turns 57th,Leni Robredo faces what is perhaps the greatest battle of her life so far – that of winning the Presidency of the Philippines, 16 days on […]

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Extractions highlight our use and abuse of land-based resources..' (Photo: Mildred German)

Visual Arts: Exhibit highlight abuse of land

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Coquitlam, BC Visual Arts  START THE HEALING Artwork At Place Des Arts  Organized by the Coquitlam Heritage Society, the exhibition Extractions: Resources Through an Artistic Lens will be available for viewing from April 1st to May 19th, 2022.  Mildred German  Coquitlam, BC – Various art mediums fill the Atrium of Place Des Arts located at

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Team WONDERPETS of Batangas State University (BatStateU): Reaner Jacqueline Bool, Ghia Luwalhati, and Nicole Elizabeth Tan. Photo from UNESCO

International Women’s Day: All-girl team from Philippines wins first place

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Philippines 2022 UNESCO World Engineering Day Hackathon Beats UBC Okanagan The WONDERPETS all-girl student team of Batangas State University (BatStateU) has bagged first place with its water pollution reduction solution in the 2022 World Engineering Day Hackathon supported by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The Filipina-led team composed of Chemical Engineering

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Nina Lee Aquino is the first woman of colour and first Filipino-Canadian to head a national arts theatre.(Photo: Cesar Ghisilieri Photography)

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

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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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Ellaine Joy Calapao Sanidad graduated with highest distinction at Oxford University. (Photo: Abreninian)

Filipino graduates with highest honour at Britain’s Oxford University

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Philippines Equivalent to Summa Cum Laude A Filipina graduated with highest honours (equivalent to Summa Cum Laude) at the prestigious Oxford University in the United Kingdom. A native of Tuguegarao City, Cagayan, Ellaine Joy Calapao Sanidad graduated on December 2, 2021 with a Master of Studies in Diplomatic Program. Graduation ceremonies is set for March

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Pagtakhan picks up another degree. (Photo: Facebook)

The Class of 2021: Grace Amanda Pagtakhan picks up another degree

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Winnipeg, Manitoba Congratulations, Grace Amanda on graduating from the University of Manitoba with a Master of Education in Counselling Psychology.  She works with Aulneau Renewal Centre, Women’s Health Clinic and Thrive Counselling. A counsellor at Women’s Health Clinic (WHC), Pagtakhan obtained a Post Baccalaureate Diploma in Education,University of Manitoba in 2019. She is the daughter of

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Call for submissions for Anthology of Filipino-Canadian writing

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Antonio Solis holds trophy for Photographer of the Year. ( Photo: Photographic Guild of Nova Scotia)

Antonio Solis is Nova Scotia’s Photographer of the Year

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Nova Scotia Photographic Guild of Nova Scotia picks Solis   Teodoro Alcuitas Editor, PhilippineCanadianNews.Com (PCN.Com) The Photographic Guild of Nova Scotia has awarded the 2020-21 Photographer of the Year’ (POY) to Engineer Antonio Solis. A professional industrial engineer, Solis teaches at the Nova Scotia Community College in the Industrial Engineering Technology program. He specializes in

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Austria shares the honour with Catherine Hernandez and Karla Comanda.(Photo:JC Bonifacio)

Jennilee Austria’s story on reunification is second runner-up

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3rd update: October 18, 2021, 7:47 A.M. 2nd update: October 18, 2021, 7:33 A.M. Updated: October 18, 2021, 7:25 A.M. Ontario Jim Wong-Chu Emerging Writers Award for 2020 Charmaine Rodriguez Kara Filipina Canadian writer Jennilee Austria emerged as second runner-up in the prestigious Jim Wong-Chu Emerging Writers Award for 2020 and is set to become a

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Breaking: Maria Ressa, Duterte nemesis, wins Nobel Peace Prize

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First Filipino to win  award “A thousand cuts” doesn’t scare this fearless journalist Editorial Teodoro Alcuitas Editor, PhilippineCanadianNews.Com (PCN.Com) Maria Ressa, founder and CEO of Rappler, Inc. has been awarded the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize in Journalism, the first Filipino to be ever win the $1.1 cash award. Ressa shares the prize with Russian journalist

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