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Environment: Reclaiming the Marikina Valley

Updated   Editor’s note: For my birthday this year, I opted to donate to this project and is asking those who can to give whatever they can spare, however small. You can send it directly to the organization or you can e-transfer or mail me a check and I will send it to the Philippines.- […]

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Toronto’s Metrolinx building world-class transit system

Updated:December 3, 2020, 7:00 AM Toronto, Ontario One of North America’s largest infrastructure investments Metrolinx is building a world-class transit system so you can safely travel better, faster and easier. Metrolinx is hard at work building a landmark transit system for the Greater Golden Horseshoe. Undertaking one of North America’s largest infrastructure investments, and with

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Co. ERASGA’s 20th anniversary ‘Offering’ a welcomed respite

Vancouver, B.C. Dancers exude our own anxious isolation and the hope of coming out of this pandemic A review by Teodoro Alcuitas Editor, Philippine Canadian News.com ’Offering’ indeed was translucent in all the solo performers’ interpretations as their hands and bodies move in a darkened environment. Costumed like semi-primitive beings lost in a world beyond

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‘Offering’ – the Dance performance that Covid almost cancelled

Vancouver, B. C. Live-streamed tomorrow, Saturday & Sunday at 3 PM Like many others impacted by the pandemic, Alvin Erasga Tolentino was planning a performance long before Covid struck. To commemorate Co. Erasga’s 20th anniversary, he was envisioning a large-scale performance but was stymied by the onset of the pandemic with all its attendant health

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Toronto: Annual Bonifacio Day to be held online

Media Release November 13, 2020 Andres Bonifacio 2020 Festival to be held online November 29 Bonifacio Festival 2020, A Conversation on History and Cultural Performances Online, will be held on Sunday, November 29, 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. EST. The online event, organized by the Filipino-Canadian Writers and Journalists Network (FC-WJNet), in partnership with Malaya Movement

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Red Cross launches appeal for typhoon relief

Updated:November 20, 2020, 6:35 PM MEDIA RELEASE November 20, 2020 Surrey Philippine Independence Day Society (SPIDS), the long-time organization of Filipinos in Surrey, through its President and Founding Director, Narima Dela Cruz, was officially informed by Jennifer Wong, the Community Engagement Manager for Canadian Red Cross (CRC) BC and Yukon, that a dedicated Appeal has

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‘I Propose We Never See Each Other Again After Tonight’ will be on VOD (Video on Demand) November 24, 2020.

Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg-made movie with predominantly Filipino cast makes successful run despite pandemic Teodoro Alcuitas Editor, Philippine Canadian News.Com The first Canadian-made movie to feature an almost all Filipino cast will now be available on video (VDO), says Sean Garrity, producer and filmmaker of ‘‘I Propose We Never See Each Other Again After Tonight’. On

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National Remembrance Day: Two sons remember their dads

Updated:November 11, 2020, 9 PM Vancouver, B.C. Na alaala namin kayo… Teodoro Alcuitas Editor, Philippine Canadian News.Com As Canada today celebrates National Remembrance Day to honour the men and women who died in world wars especially the European theatre of war, we also pause to remember the veterans of another war – the Pacific War.

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Shirley Camia’s ‘Novena’ a meditation on grieving and healing

Tribute to Filipino frontline workers who have died of Covid Teodoro Alcuitas, Editor, Philippine Canadian News.Com Poet Shirley Camia’s poetry animation Novena is among four Filipino films featured in the years’ Reel Asian Film Festival All films are screening digitally across Canada from November 12 to 19. Created in June to commemorate Filipino Heritage Month, Novena

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Immigration: Express Entry: 4,500 ITAs issued in new draw

  Canada has now issued 87,350 ITAs this year     CIC News – The Voice of Canadian Immigrants Published on November 5th, 2020 at 11:07am EST A total of 4,500 invitations went to Express Entry candidates with a minimum Comprehensive Ranking System (CRS) score requirement of 478. French-speaking candidates are eligible for more CRS points in

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