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Breaking: Maria Ressa, Duterte nemesis, wins Nobel Peace Prize

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First Filipino to win  award “A thousand cuts” doesn’t scare this fearless journalist Editorial Teodoro Alcuitas Editor, PhilippineCanadianNews.Com (PCN.Com) Maria Ressa, founder and CEO of Rappler, Inc. has been awarded the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize in Journalism, the first Filipino to be ever win the $1.1 cash award. Ressa shares the prize with Russian journalist […]

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Senator Kiko Pangilinan will be running mate of Robredo. (Photo: Maharlika TV)

Halalan 2022: Leni Robredo runs for president

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Updated: October 8, 2021, 10:40 A.M. Philippines Repeat battle between Robredo and Bongbong Marcos Charmaine Rodriguez Kara Philippine Vice President Leni Robredo today ( October 7 in the Philippines) announced her plan to run for president in the May 2022 elections after she was nominated by the political opposition coalition 1Sambayan which called the Philippines

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Early childhood educator (ECE) Jaleen Chrissy Nocon. (Provided)

World Teachers’ Day 2021

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October 5 is World Teachers’ Day 2021 Jaleen Chrissy Nocon: On Teaching, Music, and Art Mildred German Vancouver, BC – As the world celebrates World Teachers’ Day amidst the ongoing pandemic, many of us can be reminded of the big role of teachers in our lives and of our children’s. Particularly, in the Philippines, teachers

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After his election in 2016, Duterte's reign has been described by the Catholic Church as a "reign of terror". (Photo: The Daily Guardian)

Breaking: Philippine President Duterte announces ‘retirement from politics’

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Philippines Is Duterte really going to retire? Analysis Teodoro Alcuitas Editor, PhilipineCanadianNews.Com (PCN.Com) In an announcement typical of his bravado, President Rodrigo Duterte announced yesterday (Oct. 2 in the Philippines) that he will not run for vice president in next May’s elections. While he is not running for vice-president, his long-time aide, Senator Bong Go

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Philippine overseas ‘deactivated’ voters have end of this month to apply

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The Philippines’ Foreign Service has released the following statement regarding overseas voting. LIST OF DEACTIVATED OVERSEAS VOTERS Due to failure to vote in two consecutive National Elections 2016 and 2019 EMBASSY / POST: Agana (4,576) Brasilia (727) Buenos Aires (625) Calgary (182) Chicago (4,519) Los Angeles (26,817) Mexico (1,102) New York (10,953) Ottawa (3,558) San Francisco (23,115) Toronto (16,045) Vancouver (16,788) Washington (12,910) Anyone who intends to vote in

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Stand with Asians Coalition Proposes Orange Sidewalk  in City of Burnaby 

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Press Release I would like to start with an acknowledgement as settlers/visitors of the Unceded, Ancestral, and Unsurrendered Lands of the Coast Salish Peoples, specifically the Kwantlen, Katzie,  Semiahmoo, hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Speaking Peoples. All efforts to be anti-racism must work towards justice on stolen lands through truth, reconciliation, and decolonization. Today, the Stand with

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Rechie Valdez makes history. (Photo: The News, Mississauga)

Politics:Liberal Rechie Valdez Wins Mississauga -Streetsville Riding

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Toronto, Ontario  Makes history in the Filipino-Canadian community By Tony A. San Juan, OCT-Retired In the 44th Canadian federal election held on September 20, 2021, Filipino Canadians welcome a historical development in parliamentary politics. Filipino Canadian Rechie Valdez wins the electoral riding in Mississauga- Streetsville in Ontario. Valdez wins the seat for the Liberal Party

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Winnipeg,Manitoba- June 11, 1984. ATOM (August Twenty One Movement rally at Philippine Independence Day celebrations. Sign calls on Mayor Norrie to cancel Winnipeg-Manila sister city agreement.(Winnipeg Sun photo/Brian Donohue)

Never Forget! On the 49th anniversary of Martial Law

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Breaking: Filipinos finally has a seat in Parliament after 33 years with Rechie Valdez’s win

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Mississauga, Ontario First woman to be elected Opinion Teodoro Alcuitas Editor, PhilippineCanadianNews.Com (PCN.Com) After a drought of 33 years with no representation, Filipinos have now a new Member of Parliament with the election of Rechie Valdez in the Mississauga-Streetsville riding of Ontario. The Liberals will form a minority government, the same before the election was

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Priest who exposed Duterte’s killings recalls ordeal in poem

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48 years ago, on September 21, 1973 – the 1st anniversary of Marcos’ martial law declaration (PD 1081), I was arrested, tortured and imprisoned until April 15, 1974. This poem is based on my experience and those of other detainees. A Prisoner’s Psalm Amado L. Picardal From this dark and damp cell I cry out

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