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Movie review: “I Propose We Never See Each Other Again After Tonight’ – Could this film launch a career for Hera Nalam?

Updated: Sept. 9, 2020, 7:35 AM The gamble that paid-off Opinion Teodoro Acuitas Editor, Philippine Canadian News.Com (PCN.Com) “Movie and television shows are magic mirrors, and we watch for the reflections that resemble us. They show us  who we are. They gave us the silhouettes of identity so difficult to envision on our own,” Alex […]

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Crisanta Sampang writes on the ‘strong men’ in her life

Updated: Sept. 8,2020, 11:15 AM Updated: Sept. 5, 2020, 1:45 PM Welcome to our new contributor : Crisanta Sampang We are proud to welcome author and filmmaker Crisanta Sampang to our pages. Sampang is best known for her book ‘Maid in Singapore’ which came out in 2005, a memoir of her life as a caregiver

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Babala! Fake immigration job offers

Canada Well-orchestrated scheme tricks applicants Hopeful immigrants who receive offers to work in Canada from potential recruiters are encouraged to perform due diligence to avoid being the victim of fraudulent practices. Chris Collette Canada Immigration News (CIC) Published on August 22nd, 2020 at 08:00am EDT Updated on August 24th, 2020 at 11:19am EDT Some mock

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Top five: ‘I Propose We Never See Each Other Again After Tonight’ extended to Sept.10

“Winnipeg filmmaker Sean Garrity’s film I Propose We Never See Each Other Again After Tonight managed to get into the top five list of Canadian box office while screening in just two Winnipeg cinemas, the Northgate and McGillivray VIP. (According to a Mongrel Media staffer, Garrity’s film outgrossed the X-Men spinoff The New Mutants.) It’s being held over

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Breaking: Woman sexually abused by Filipino priest wins $844,140 award

Updated: August 26,2020, 7:09 PM Vancouver, B.C. Fr. Erlindo ‘Lindo’ Molon, Kamloops Diocese guilty in sexual abuse of Rosemary Anderson Opinion Teodoro Alcuitas Editor, Philippine Canadian news.com The Kamloops Roman Catholic Diocese will pay a priest’s sexual abuse victim $844,140 in damages, a B.C. Supreme Court judge ruled Aug. 25. Link to full decision: https://www.bccourts.ca/jdb-txt/sc/20/12/2020BCSC1247.htm.

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Joel Pablo Salud: Between Covid-19 and the jaws of tyranny: Where do we go from here?

Philippines We can start, slowly but surely, by pushing back the jaws of tyranny wherever we are. By Joel Pablo Salud Manila – Days ago, 14 people died and scores injured after two bombs rocked the province of Jolo located at the southernmost part of the Philippines.  Both explosions were reportedly carried out by female suicide

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Belgian photog pays tribute to fallen Zarah Alvarez

Christophe Smets Updated: August 27, 2020 Former Photographer / Coordinateur Projets at la boîte à images. He  did the interview for a Belgian NGO called Viva Salud. You can find the whole interview here : vivasalud.be August 25, 2020 Dear Zara, Excuse me, it took me some time, a whole week, to write to you after your

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Sa Kitimat: Nurse Edwin Empinado wins award

Kitimat,B.C. City councillor Edwin Empinado receives Jago Award  Teodoro Alcuitas Editor, Philippine Canadian news.com Operating room nurse Edwin Empinado has been recognized as one this year’s Jago awardee from Northern Health.  The Dr. Charles Jago Awards, named after the  former board chair, acknowledge and celebrate the NH staff, physicians, and teams who have made outstanding

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Immigrant finds strength, solace in Carlos Bulosan

By: Danny Petilla – @inquirerdotnet Philippine Daily Inquirer / 05:00 AM August 16, 2020 SEATTLE — Ninety years ago during the Great Depression, the 17-year-old peasant Carlos Bulosan traveled from his small village in the Philippines and arrived in this city. Bulosan would become one of the great writers of his generation and make a

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Three Filipino authors in LiterAsian Festival 2020

Vancouver, B.C. Emerging writers LiterASIAN Festival: Celebrating Asian Canadian Writing Teodoro Alcuitas Vancouver, BC – Three Filipino authors are among seven Asian Canadian writers participating in the 2020 LiterASIAN: A Festival of Pacific Rim Asian Canadian Writing which opened today until August 30, 2020.  The annual festival, the only one of its kind in Canada,

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