(This is Part 39 of Dr. Pagtakhan’s column Medisina at Politika in Pilipino Express.)
The fourth Monday of August has been designated National Heroes Day in the Philippines to pay homage to the national heroes of the country.
To celebrate International Women’s Day this year, thousands of women took to the streets in major urban centers including Toronto and Vancouver demanding gender equality and proclaiming women’s rights.
More questions spring from that headline question above: 1) what ranks as the Filipinos’ choicest job?
Since the 1960s when Filipinos started arriving in Canada in large numbers, they had managed to become seamlessly integrated in Canadian mainstream society.
Juan Alim, 78, a former Filipino citizen who was naturalized as a Canadian citizen in 1998, arrived in Manila last year to celebrate Christmas with relatives.
Eleanor Guerrero Campbell: By the time this issue of Canadian Filipino Net appears online, the Trudeau government would have been in office for a little over a year,
Temporary foreign worker programs (TFWP) or “guest worker” schemes are an example of contradictions in liberal democratic states
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