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Filipino Community Leader Narima Dela Cruz addresses her partymates and supporters during a fundraiser organized for her. (Screenshot from Imagine Surrey's Facebook page)

Surrey Council candidate gathers supporters, raises funds for campaign

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By Charmaine Y. Rodriguez Political aspirant Narima Dela Cruz vows to bring needed change to city A civic leader whose contributions to the City of Surrey are legendary—that’s how Imagine Surrey Mayoral candidate Mike Starchuk described Filipino community organizer Narima Dela Cruz during the latter’s birthday dinner and fundraiser over the weekend. Imagine Surrey is […]

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B.C. Election : Leaders face off on first debate

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Leaders  bare party plans Analysis With the provincial election barely two weeks away, party leaders faced off in the first debate on CKNW Radio, October 2. The NDP’ s David Eby accused his opponent John Rustad of the Conservatives of not answering questions about whether it’s acceptable that one of his candidate is claiming vaccines

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Renowned Filipino artists headline Lapu-Lapu Day. (Composite by philppinecanadiannews.com)

Vancouver’s own Manila Grey, Ruby Ibarra, etc. perform at 1st Lapulapu Day Block Party

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Vancouver, B.C. Filipino chieftain’s  legacy celebrated Teodoro ‘Ted Alcuitas Renowned Filipino-Canadian artists Manila Grey and Filipino-American rapper Ruby Ibarra are among top performers in the first Lapu-Lapu Day Block Party on April 27. The star-studded event from 41st to 48th in Vancouver will feature other performers including 2x Grammy-nominated John Concepcion, Jeremy Passion, Gabe Bondoc,

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Man on the run. (with apologies to Gerry Apuada, Silangan, 1980 files)

Pastor Apollo Quiboloy: Man on the run

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Philippines “Hindi ako magpapahuli nang buhay (I will not be caught alive).” The beleaguered ‘Son of Man’ Pastor Apollo Quiboloy of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ (KOJC) vowed as authorities tried to arrest him on charges of child and sexual abuse in Davao City. The fugitive doomsday preacher broke his silence, April 6 and accused

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Nootka Sound in the 1700s was a rugged remote international port – a major source of sea otter pelts valued as fur in China and Japan. Hence, Russian, American, and English ships called upon there with some frequency.

First Filipino Canadians: seamen but not settlers (Part 2 of 4)

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By Joseph Lopez Nootka Sound in the 1700s was a rugged remote international port – a major source of sea otter pelts valued as fur in China and Japan.  Hence, Russian, American, and English ships called upon there with some frequency. A review of the exploration history of the Pacific Northwest relates the return of

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A 2016 picture of Karl Gaspar. (Paulo C. Rizal/davaotoday.com)

Celebrated author Karl Gaspar reviews ‘Magdaragat: An Anthology of Filipino Canadian Writing’

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  “And these “perpetual departures” have made our ancestors wanderers beyond our shores. “Filipino Canadians have to navigate between two opposite poles as they cross the national boundary into a foreign land. And once again, this involves a deep longing for one’s roots, even as they get uprooted and needed to adjust to a new

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Magdaragat contributors gather at the book launch in Toronto, March 20 at Ben McNally Books. (front row from left) Maribeth Manalaysay Tabanera, Kay Costales, Erica Dionora, Isabela Palanca Aureus and Angelo Santos; middle row: Carolyn Fe , Renato Gandia, Rachel Evangeline Chiong-Catanus, Isa Palanca Aureus; third row: José Romelo Lagman, C.E. Gatchalian, Aileen Santiago, Patria Rivera and Kaia M. Arrow. (Photo: Ricardo Caluen)

Book : ‘Magdaragat’ launches successfully in Toronto

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Updated: March 22, 2024, 4:09 PM Toronto, Ontario  Landmark book ‘Magdaragat: An Anthology of Filipino Canadian Writing’ well received  in Toronto Ricardo J. Salise Caluen

 After a four-year wait since the project’s inception in 2020, Magdaragat – An Anthology of Filipino-Canadian Writing was formally launched in Toronto on Wednesday (March 20) at Ben McNally’s Books,

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Painting by Reva Diana.

Sino ang kauna-unahang Pinoy? Finding the first Filipino to settle in Canada

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First Filipino Canadians: The Search Begins (part 1 of 4) By  Joseph Lopez If you look at history books and online sources as recent as 2019, all of them will say that the first Filipino immigrants in Canada arrived in the 1930s, mostly settling in Winnipeg, Manitoba. So I left it at that. Until…. Serendipity

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Book review: Some People Need Killing

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By Teodoro Alcuitas Some People Need Killing After four decades as an expatriate in Canada, I returned to the Philippines in 2006 as part of a Canadian Human Rights Fact-Finding Mission. What I saw and experienced in that fact-finding mission terrified me and left me bewildered and confused. After hearing the stories of killings I

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Front page of the Winnipeg-based Kalayaan. (Image: Ted Alcuitas archives)

Where were you during EDSA Revolution?

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Philippines Philippine church groups join 38th EDSA People Power Anniversary protest Mark Saludes Licas News Church groups join the thousands of protesters who marched to the EDSA Shrine along Ortigas Avenue in Quezon City in the Philippines on February 24, 2024, in commemoration of the 38th anniversary of the EDSA People Power uprising that toppled

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