Updated:May 21, 2022, 12:19 P.M. Vancouver, B.C. Community members organize to keep cultural assets in the Joyce-Collingwood neighbourhood The Joyce Street Action Network is organizing a second town hall meeting on Tuesday, May 31 at for an in-person discussion to reimagine Joyce St. neighbourhood in east Vancouver. The network which supports the retention of cultural […]
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Updated:May 21, 2022, 11:05 A.M. Toronto, Ontario Opinion Millions lost faith in elections Oswald Magno It is no idle talk to say that millions of Filipinos have lost faith in the integrity of elections and, by extension, in their trust of COMELEC, the constitutional body charged with the primordial responsibility of protecting the sanctity of
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Demands immediate and independent investigation Charmaine Janis Rodriguez A group of migrant and overseas Filipinos in the US and Canada declared last Wednesday, in a manifesto, that they are rejecting Marcos and Duterte as the president-elect and vice president-elect, respectively, of the Philippines. “We believe that their presumptive victory in the recently conducted elections is
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OPINION The election won by lies Teodoro ‘Ted’ Alcuitas Based on unofficial results, it is clear that Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and Sara Duterte has won the election. While Robredo has not conceded yet, analysts say it will be difficult to expect otherwise. We here in the diaspora is extremely disappointed by the outcome as thousands
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Toronto, Ontario Race Relations Committee reconstituted with Tanuan and three Filipino-Canadians Tony A. San Juan, OCT-Retired The Toronto Catholic District School Board( TCDSB), Canada’s largest Catholic school system in terms of student population, has reconstituted its Race Relations Committee as the “Special Board Advisory Committee on Race Relations” on March 10, 2022. The Race Relations Committee
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By Charmaine Janis Rodriguez More than 65.7 million Filipinos are trooping to their polling precincts today to cast their votes for the 17th President and Vice President of the Philippines as well as for other national and local candidates in the 2022 National and Local Elections. The race to replace President Rodrigo Duterte has been
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2022 PHILIPPINE ELECTIONS RAPPLER [OPINION] An open letter of grief from Loren Legarda’s son MAY 4, 2022 1:32 PM PHT LORENZO LEGARDA LEVISTE ‘My mother is an example of how fascism takes hold, is made acceptable, normalized, facilitated, ushered in’ I’m writing this weeks after learning the news that my mother, a woman named Loren
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The eminent professor Vicente L. Rafael recently released his book The Sovereign Trickster: Death and Laughter in the Age of Duterte. Among the interviews he has done about the book, his conversation with Ruth Ben-Ghiat go Lucid ( a publication about threats to democracy and abuses of power) on March 5, 2022 reveals facets of Duterte
Eric Cabahug post: If the values are right, not blind, and the mind is open, it is so easy to choose. Artcard by Bong Banal
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Ontario One Liberal and two NDPs Tony A. San Juan, OCT-Retired Once again, the Filipino Canadian communities in Ontario are agog and started gearing up for the coming provincial election on June 2, 2022. Three prominent Filipino Canadians have been declared official candidates by their political parties to contest for Member of Parliament( MPP) positions in
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