UN appoints Filipina as oversight chief The United Nations General Assembly recently appointed Commission on Audit (COA) Commissioner Heidi S. Mendoza as Undersecretary General of the UN’s Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS). Mendoza is the first Filipino ever to be appointed as Under-Secretary General in the UN Secretariat, says the Philippines’ Department of Foreign […]
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Four complainants demand payments Officials Mum on Money Issues By Romy Marquez | November 1, 2015 Balita The Filipino community’s “premier” business organization in the Greater Toronto Area is literally up to its neck in debts, owing thousands of dollars to individuals and companies, and seemingly unmoved by accusations of “scamming” at least three individuals
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Vancouver -“Life is so short that one has to do what you can now and not wait,” says Danison Buan, the man behind the recently launched Refood ( refood.ca) – a social enterprise to recycle food that would otherwise be wasted and share it with charities. A recent study found that $31 billion of food
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By Hilary Beaumont Vice News October 28, 2015 Hundreds of sombre indigenous protesters marched through the dark streets of Manila Sunday nightafter travelling for days to the Philippine capital. They held banners and signs calling on the government to end the escalating violence and killings of Lumads in the mineral-rich southern Mindanao region. The Lumads,
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Vancouver – Kensington New Democrat MLA, Mable Elmore at the October 16th Kensington-Cedar Cottage Homelessness Action Week event at McAuley Park in Vancouver. Left to right: Kelly Read,Theresa McAuley, Mable Elmore, and Kelly Woods, Cedar Cottage Neighborhood House community member. Press Release
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A Filipina caregiver is at the centre of a controversy after her employer went public, alleging that she did not have the proper qualifications to care for their severely disabled daughter putting her life at risk.”As a mom, it made me sick to my stomach to think that I trusted this woman with Stephanie, thinking
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Vancouver – A nation-wide coalition of migrant workers today called on Prime Minister-designate Justin Trudeau to end the discriminatory practice of tying migrant workers to specific employers and give them permanent status upon arrival. MoVE – a campaign for Mobility, Voice and Equality for Migrant Workers is simultaneously launched in four Canadian cities (Charlottetown, Edmonton,
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Curteanu and Empinado gets reelected for second term All five Filipino-Canadian candidates in the last federal elections lost but three municipal candidates in Canada’s north won seats, some for a second term. In Manitoba’s Winnipeg North riding, the NDP’s Levy Abad lost to Liberal Kevin Lamoureux by a wide margin, the largest majority in the
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Hernandez is proud of award (photo supplied) Toronto author Catherine Hernandez has won the 2015 Emerging Writers Award for fiction for
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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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