Breaking: Communist Party of the Philippines founder Jose Maria ‘Joma’ Sison dies at 83

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Joma has fallen not in battle but a natural death Teodoro ‘Ted’ Alcuitas Editor, PhilippineCanadianNews.Com Jose ‘Joma’ Maria Sison died on December 16, 2022 in The Netherlands where he has been in self-exile since 1986. He was 83. He died after a two-week confinement in a hospital, Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) spokesman Marco […]

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Winnipeg songwriter and poet pays tribute to Prof. Jose Maria Sison

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Winnipeg, Manitoba Until the Next Rising, The Final Storm! Levy Abad (Dec 17, 2022) To be hated by lords and oppressors To be calumnized by wolves Attacked by traitors and snakes Jailed, tortured, slayed by butchers Such is the path of revolutionaries To be embraced by the exploited workers Esteemed by enslaved serfs Wept upon by patriotic

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Young students of Filipino descent will now have a chance to learn Tagalog in school. (Pexels photo)

Winnipeg school to launch Filipino bilingual program

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Winnipeg, Manitoba Promotion of heritage, multiculturalism in growing Filipino population  By Charmaine Y. Rodriguez The Winnipeg School Division (WSD) is launching a Filipino bilingual program next school year with the goal of teaching subjects in Tagalog. The program will be for kindergarten and grade 1 students and it was initiated by the Manitoba Association of

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Damien Grayda proudly holds his enginnering diploma. (Facebook)

The Class of 2022: Winnipeg engineer leads team as top bridge buiders

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Winnipeg, Manitoba Damien Grayda leads 5-member team to victory Teodoro ‘Ted’ Alcuitas Winnipeg engineer Damien Grayda, a Lakehead University graduate,  lead his team to a second place victory in the 2022 AISC-ASCE Student Steel Bridge National Finals held last May in Virginia, U.S.A. Grayda, a 2022 Engineering graduate of Thunder Bay, Ontario’s Lakehead University, lead

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Kathleen Jayme was only six when the Vancouver Grizzlies was established. She fell in love with basketball because of them. (photo from CBC News)

Fil-Canadian director’s film to be shown all over Canada

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Vancouver, B.C. Her love for basketball, filmmaking takes her places By Charmaine Y. Rodriguez Multi-awarded Filipino Canadian filmmaker Kathleen Jayme will be seeing her work again in wide screens all over Canada this winter with the nationwide screening of her feature film “The Grizzlie Truth.” A documentary that uncovers the reason why Vancouver lost its

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Educator and musician Paul Ong earns the recognition of being in CBC's Future 40 list of outstanding individuals under the age of 40. (CBC website)

Filipino musician makes it to CBC Manitoba’s Future 40 list

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Winnipeg, Manitoba Paul Ong’s concerts raised close to $100,000 in donations to local charities By Charmaine Y. Rodriguez A Filipino-educator and renowned musician made it to CBC Manitoba’s Future 40—a list of 10 outstanding young Manitobans under the age of 40 who are making a difference in their communities. Out of more than a hundred

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While immigration continues to be the population growth driver, the number of babies of Filipino immigrants who were born in Canada grew by close to 19 percent, according to Statistics Canada. (Pexels photo/Furdi de Rivera)

Filipinos now 4th largest racial group in Canada: 2021 census

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Statistics Canada projects Filipino population to reach 2M by 2041 By Charmaine Y. Rodriguez Filipinos now make up the fourth largest racial group in Canada–close to a million–and the number is projected to reach 2 million by 2041, Statistics Canada reported. In 2021, three racialized groups represented 16.1% of Canada’s total population. These are South Asians

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Kathara celebrates annual Padayon tomorrow, Sunday

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Vancouver, B.C. Merienda gathering at Collingwood Neighbourhood House at 3:30 P.M. Kathara Pilipino Indigenous Arts Collective Society (Kathara) is celebrating the year-end with a traditional merienda on Sunday, December 4, 2022 at the Collingwood Neighbourhood House on Joyce St. “Kathara Society calls upon our community stakeholders, those who support Indigenous Filipino Identities, who strive towards

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Awardees pose with The Hon. Marco Mendicino. (All photos: Mon Torralba of Filipinos Making Waves Newspaper)

Six Filipino-Canadians receive Queen’s Jubilee pins

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Eglinton, Ontario For contribution to the community and leadership by Tony A. San Juan, OCT.   On the occasion marking the 70th anniversary of Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II’s accession to the Throne, several Canadians including six Filipino-Canadians in the Greater Toronto Area( GTA), Ontario, were awarded the “Platinum Jubilee Pin of Queen Elizabeth II”

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An initial 70 nurses will start working in Saskatchewan early next year. More than 3,000 applicants for health care jobs are also being processed. (Pexels photo)

Filipino nurses to be deployed in Saskatchewan

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Regina, Saskatchewan Canada Health Minister: ‘Our recruitment plan is working’ By Charmaine Y. Rodriguez In an effort to reduce emergency room waiting times and give relief to overworked health workers in Saskatchewan, more than 70 nurses from the Philippines were hired to work in the province through a bridging program by the Health Ministry of Canada.

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