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The Cargill Saga: Are Filipino workers being led to the slaughterhouse?

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“..It’s too late,” Fernando (not his real name) a meat cutter at Cargill who tested positive for COVID-19 told The Globe and Mail about the company’s slow response. (Photo:TODD KOROL/THE GLOBE AND MAIL) Calgary, Alberta Why is Cargill, the “world’s worst company” thriving in Alberta? Editorial By Teodoro ‘Ted’ Alcuitas Editor, Philippine Canadian news.Com Cargill’s […]

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Mountainview Rotary Club launches Philippine relief effort

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[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”] [et_pb_row admin_label=”row”] [et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”]Residents of a depressed community in Barangay Paligsahan, Quezon City line up for relief goods being distributed by barangay officers on Thursday, March 19, 2020. Local officials in the barangay level are dipping into their calamity funds to provide relief assistance to communities affected by the Luzon lockdown, which

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Covid-19: A Tale of Two Presidents

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Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte (left) and U.S. President Donald Trump. A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words!  

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“Am I going to die? How about my family and my children?” – Jocelyn Ruiz. (Screen grab, Global News)

Covid-19 Chronicles 9: Are Filipinos being used as sacrificial cows?

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Updated: April 25, 2020, April 25, 2020, 10:48 AM Calgary Filipinos  fear Covid infections “Am I going to die? How about my family and my children?” Teodoro ‘Ted’ Alcuitas The Filipino community in a southern Alberta town is living in fear as news broke out that the main employer, Cargill, is being closed due to

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Passages: Remembering Ex-Senator Heherson ‘Sonny’ Alvarez

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“Freedom was won with the efforts of foreign exiles who were consistently and systematically trying to change policy makers’ opinions,” said former Senator Heherson ‘Sonny’ Alvarez who died of Covid-19 at 80 on April 20, 2020. He was a ‘freedom fighter’a pioneer, a climate change campaigner, an environmentalist..” Teodoro ‘Ted’ Alcuitas Editor, Philippine Canadian News.com

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Covid-19 Chronicles 8: Another careworker dies in Ontario

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Christine Mandegarian couldn’t stay home as she was a Healthcare worker. (GoFundMe image) Ontario Second Filipino healthcare worker to die of Covid-19 Teodoro ‘Ted’ Alcuitas Editor, Philippine Canadian news.com She posted this on her Facebook page on March 19, 2020. Less than a month later on April 15, Christine Bacalocos Mandegarian died of Covid-19. She

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Coronavirus Chronicles 7: Another ‘soldier in white’ has fallen

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    Dr. Anastacio cuddles his apo (grandson) Caleb, youngest son of Teresa and Raymond Belmonte,now residents of British Columbia (Photo taken seven years ago. Facebook, Raymond Belmonte) Updated: April 20, 2020, 9:30 AM Philippines/Burnaby, B.C. Dr. Roberto V. Anastacio is 23rd doctor to fall victim to Covid Teodoro ‘Ted’ Alcuitas Editor, Philippine Canadian News.com

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Justice Steve A. Coroza elevated to Ontario’s Appeals Court

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In a decade,  Justice Steve Coroza went from a Justice in the Ontario Court of Justice to the Ontario Appeals Court, the highest court in the province. ( Photo: From the Banate family album and The Capizeno Association of Ontario, Facebook).   2nd Update: June 17, 2021, 7:50 P.M. Updated: April 14, 2020, 1:46 PM

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From prisoners, words of wisdom and hope for today

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Pope Francis presides over the Way of the Cross in an empty St. Peter’s Square as part of precautions against the spread of coronavirus. (Photo credit: Vatican Media)     STATIONS OF THE CROSS 2020 Meditations from Padua Prison The Way of the Cross at the Vatican in Rome today. (Vatican Media)   Words of hope

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Updated:Coronavirus Chronicles 6: Virus claims 47-year old father

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GoFundMe fundraising for Warlito Valdez. (GoFundMe) Updated:March 9, 2020, 8:30 AM Richmond, B.C. Paying Tribute to Warlito Valdez   $82,808 raised of $100,000 goal Donate nowShare TEAM FUNDRAISER Christie Totten and 3 others are organizing this fundraiser. Created 17 hours ago Funerals & Memorials Warlito, our dear co-worker passed away from COVID 19 on Sunday,

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