Canadian Filipino artist, comedian and activist Sean Devlin won the 2018 Vancouver International Film Festival’s (VIFF) Emerging Canadian Director Award for his debut film When the Storm Fades, a docudrama about a Filipino family whose lives were devastated by Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) in 2013.

Nine awards were presented during VIFF’s BC Spotlight Gala held in Vancouver on October 6.

Local elections are going to be held this fall in six Canadian provinces and territories.

There are a number of Canadian Filipino politicians currently holding seats in city councils and school boards across the country.

The city that Mel Tobias so dearly cherished has honoured the late Canadian Filipino writer and arts lover.

The Vatican’s Jura et Bona defines “euthanasia", or "mercy killing" as "an action or an omission which of itself or by intention causes death, in order that all suffering may in this way be eliminated."

After years of debate and controversial court cases, Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government passed Bill C-14, decriminalizing doctor assisted suicide in Canada because to criminalize it was against Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The bill received Royal assent in June 2016 and set out a regime to regulate who could obtain “medical assistance in dying.” Immediately, it exposed the deep divisions that exist within the Catholic Church in Canada.