June 1, 2023 - This year’s Honda Celebration of Light (HCOL) in Vancouver will be especially exciting for Canadian Filipinos. For the first time in the world’s longest-running offshore fireworks competition, the Philippines’ Blue Peacock Fireworks is set to wow audiences on July 29 with what it promises to be a light and sound show highlighting the country’s story of its struggle towards independence. 

June 1, 2023 - In celebration of the first Lapulapu Day, wooden swords painted silver clacked and flew on April 29, at the Bayanihan Centre of the Victoria Filipino Canadian Association (VFCA) in Victoria, BC. Actors Arnel Bongcasan and Sean Benedict Penola leaped through the air, enacting through dance the fierce battle between Filipino hero Lapulapu and the conquistador, Ferdinand Magellan. 

Top BC politicians joined  Dahong Pilipino in celebrating its 30th year of publication on May 19.

June 1, 2023 - To understand a part of the traditional Filipino psyche is to grasp the significance of hiya. The Tagalog word literally means “shame”.

June 1, 2023 - After the successful Reunion Concert in Manila, Eraserheads is embarking on a world tour, with Vancouver, BC as the first stop in North America.

To celebrate June as Filipino Heritage month, Canadian Filipino.Net is featuring  Filipino artists in Canada  who have made a name for themselves. 

June 1, 2023 - Recently, a family friend invited us and our common close friends to a birthday dinner celebration in a restaurant, adding the statement “Thanks, COVID is now over.” 

May 16, 2023 –   CFNet editor Eleanor Laquian will host the 2022 McLuhanfellow, veteran journalist and ABS-CBN News Channel (ANC) anchor Karmina Constantino, on Wednesday, May 24,in meeting with Filipino community leaders in Vancouver.

May 16, 2023 – Number 14 in the United States and Philippines Bilateral Defense Guidelines, forged on May 3 during the official visit of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to Washington D.C, states,“An armed attack in the Pacific, to include anywhere in the South China Sea, on either Philippine or U.S. armed forces – which includes both nations’ Coast Guards – aircraft, or public vessels, would invoke mutual defense commitments under Article IV and Article V of the MDT.”

May 16, 2023 - Having been born and raised in an archipelagic country surrounded by water, environmental engineer and professor Maricor Arlos’ place in the Canadian academe on water and wastewater research comes as no surprise.

May 16, 2023 - After living in Canada for 35 years, Florchita Bautista is returning to her native land to ride off into the sunset.

May 1, 2023 - CFNet’s Outstanding Canadian Filipinos for 2023 are not only successful in their respective fields of work but have also helped or influenced Filipinos and Canadians in general in a lasting way while contributing to the multicultural nature of Canadian society and promoting Canada’s prosperity at home and stature in the world.

May 1, 2023 - It was short and clear. And combative.