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Joel Pablo Salud writes from Manila: In my country, they kill peacemakers

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Philippines Systematic killings of peace advocates By Joel Pablo Salud Aug. 10, a few minutes past midnight.  Novaliches, Quezon City was largely asleep. Metro Manila had been placed under modified enhanced community quarantine due to the spike in the number of infected.  Those who tested positive of Covid-19 had recently breached the 100,000th mark. People […]

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Covid 19: Two Filipina caregivers stuck abroad since March

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Canada Lives are in limbo Teodoro Alcuitas Editor, Philippine Canadian News.com Two Filipina caregivers who travelled with their employers abroad are stuck due to the Covid-19 restrictions. Mary Anne De Ramos travelled to Mexico last March with her employer Deborah Lucas to take care of their two young sons. Temporary residents such as those with

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Edmonton Filipinos call for stories

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Edmonton, Alberta PAGLALAYAG: THE PHILIPPINES TO CANADA JOURNEY Our voices. Our stories. Inform, inspire and transform. February 20, 2021 Paglalayag is the Tagalog word for voyage or journey. Paglalayag: the Philippines to Canada Journey, is a theatrical production that narrates the stories of migration of Filipinos to Canada. It chronicles the waves of migration, and the

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Agosto: Buwan ng Wikang Filipino

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Ang mga Katutubong Wika sa Maka-Filipinong Bayanihan Kontra Pandemya Ang akdang ito ay maaaring gamitin nang libre para sa online learning o anumang kaugnay na gawain. Sabayang bigkas online Wika ng Kasaysayan, Kasaysayan ng Wika, Ang mga Katutubong Wika sa Maka-Filipinong Bayanihan Kontra Pandemya” Hiligaynon, Sebwano, Bikol, at Pampanggo, Mga wikang dapat ipinagmamalaki mo Pangasinan,

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Plagued, engulfed, crushed to the point of surrender:  Besieged doctors cry for help

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Philippines Philippine healthcare system was already walking in crutches By Joel Pablo Salud Healthcare is the nation’s ability to address concerns related to the public’s well-being, be it physical, emotional, psychological.  The arrival of Covid-19 in Jan. 2020 tested our country’s capacity to contain the virus. While there are no easy answers to the continuing

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Is the Philippines winning the war against Covid-19?

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2nd Update: August 3, 2020, 10:56 AM Updated: August 3, 2020, 10:35 AM Philippines   By Joel Pablo Salud   As the world slept on the eve of the Ghost Month—August—the new coronavirus swept across the archipelago and breached the 100,000 mark. The latest Department of Health (DOH) figure reached a staggering: 103,185 confirmed cases

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Mental illness: How Francis Arevalo turned to music for healing

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Vancouver, B.C.     Originally released in 2017, The Lion documentary invites you into the story that I tell on The Sound of Healing project, that of living with bipolar disorder and my journey of healing through music. Watch The Lion Documentary: https://youtu.be/kD1Qa2c4Kow Listen to The Sound of Healing: Further reading: https://philippinecanadiannews.com/canada/mental-illness-francis-arevalo-lost-found-music/

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Police shootings: Remembering the killing of Jeffrey Reodica, 16 years ago

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In memory of Jeffrey Reodica – killed by police for holding a ‘stone’. “He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.” – John.8 Ted Alcuitas Editor, Philippine Canadian News.Com (PCN.Com) Seven years ago on July 31, 2013, I wrote this editorial about police shootings and innocent lives lost,

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Duterte’s looking-glass world and the idolatry of death

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4th Update, July 31, 2020,8 PM 3rd update: July 31, 2020, 9:53 AM 2nd Update: July 31, 2020, 8:42 AM Updated: July 31, 2020, 8:05 AM   By Joel Pablo Salud  July 30, 2020 Salud is the author of several books of fiction and political nonfiction. Member: Philippine Center for International PEN, Unyon ng Manunulat

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Rivera couple exihibit works

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‘Life in the time of Covid’ Joe & Patty Rivera Toronto, Ontario The works of Toronto couple Joe & Patty Rivera will be on view at a livestream performance on Saturday, August 1, 2020. ‘Life in the time of Covid’ is a poetry performance by Toronto poet Patria Rivera who will read her Haiku poetry.

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