Rommel Silverio and family. -Facebook image Rommel Silverio became the first Filipino to be elected to Yellowknife city council and the third Filipino-Canadian to win a seat as a city councillor in Canada’s north, joining Jocelyn Curteanu of Whitehorse and Edwin Empinado of Kitimat. The 39-year Silverio was elected for the first time to […]
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Election 2015 Premier-designate Justin Trudeau, eldest son of Pierre Elliot Trudeau The election of Justin Trudeau, son of former PM Pierre Trudeau has a familiar ring to most Filipinos where political dynasties are a fact of life in the country. Trudeau is the first in the history of Canada to follow his father to
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Photo Credit: Liberal Party Facebook. Justin Trudeau greets supporters at subway station. INQUIRER.net U.S. Bureau October 21st, 2015 SAN FRANCISCO—Canada dealt a big blow to incumbent conservatives by voting in its first new leader in nearly a decade in a general election that gave Justin Trudeau’s Liberal party an absolute majority. This is good news
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By Staff When Prime Minister Stephen Harper was preparing to visit the Philippines in 2012, one of the people his office sought to join him was Francisco ‘Jojo’ Quimpo. When the Vancouver man received a call from Harper’s office, it got him thinking that perhaps it was time for him to do more for his
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By Staff It seems as if the controversy surrounding Quimpo’s candidacy does not stop. On the day of the last all candidates debate in his riding which he refused to attend, a story on a local media revealed that he “signed” a pledge from pranksters Shit Harper Did (SHD).The pranksters talked the Conservative candidate into
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