“It hurts to know that I could have been of help and saving lives right now,” Christine Joyce Vega laments as she awaits her deportation. (Toronto Star) Updated: March 31, 2020, 9 PM Toronto, Ontario “Crude and insulting response to her mistake,” says lawyer By Teodoro ‘Ted’ Alcuitas Editor Philippine Canadian news.Com (PCN.Com) As countries […]
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Dr. Brian Cabral, a doctor at St. Luke’s Global City, has been volunteering to help with the COVID-19 efforts. CULTURE SPOTLIGHT Philippines Philippine doctors are dying of Covid-19 ABS-CBN “The isolation is just as painful as the infection.” BY BRIAN MICHAEL ICASAS CABRAL | Mar 30 2020 facebook twitter Dr. Brian Cabral is one of
Winnipeg-based singer/songwriter Levy Abad sings about the Coronavirus. (Screenshot, Levy Abad Facebook) Winnipeg, Manitoba These Covid Days Lyrics /Music ( March 27,2020) Levy Abad These Covid days can make you weary Where this virus all begun Or did our sins made God angry Or was the germ made in Wuhan So silently it
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Filipino-Canadian Dr.Eileen De Villa (left) is Toronto’s Chief Medical Officer and Dr. Teresa Tam, Chief Public Health Officer for Canada. Canada Federal, three provinces and one territory Teodoro ‘ Ted’ Alcuitas Editor, philippine canadian news.com As Canada grapples with the Coronavirus pandemic, the public is faced with an abundance of information through the media and other sources
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Justice for Marlon Maldos! Stop The Attacks Against Cultural Workers! by Mildred Grace German March 20, 2020 – As COVID-19’s first case sprouted in December 2019, the New York Times published major articles on Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s brutal extra judicial killings (EJK). Reports of over 30,000 killings in the past three years of Duterte’s
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Susan Cain, author of the Quiet – The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking says: “Sometimes it helps to be a pretend-extrovert. There is always time to be quiet later.” Cain encourages introverts to keep in mind that the prospect of making “one genuine relationship is worth a fistful of business cards.” Photo: [whoislimos
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Toronto medical officer of health, Dr. Eileen de Villa urge people to stay home to fight coronavirus (Photo: The Star) Toronto, Ontario 96 active cases Toronto health officials announced that the coronavirus is spreading locally on Monday, pleading for everyone to stay home who can — “social distancing” measures that research shows can massively diminish
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“Isang kahig, isang tuka” Pablo Virgilio David Follow 13 hrs HOW DO WE APPLY CONCEPTS LIKE “LOCKDOWN” & “COMMUNITY QUARANTINE” IN THE NON-FIRST WORLD SETTING? Bishop Pablo Virgilio David As usual, it is the poor who suffer the most when a first world concept is applied in a third world setting. Yesterday was Sunday. I
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OBITUARY Winnipeg, Manitoba Ruben Bajar Bello JANUARY 28, 1941 – MARCH 11, 2020 With great sorrow we announce the sudden passing of Ruben Bajar Bello at the age of 79. He was a beloved husband who was predeceased by his wife of 46 years Dominga Bello. He leaves to mourn his children Richard Bello (Marjorie
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Kathara performs tonight at UBC’s MOA for International Women’s Day. (Photo: Facebook, Kathara Pilipino Indigenous Arts Collective Society ) International Women’s Day at MOA THURSDAY MARCH 5, 2020 | 7 – 9 PM This year’s International Women’s Day at MOA is a unique intergenerational, intercultural celebration of women supporting women. Through the voices of women from
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