Mabuhay! Be recognized and be proud as Filipinos!

Celebrate everything Filipino as Canada for the very first time honours all Filipinos with the designation of June as Filipino Heritage month across the country.

A dozen Canadian Filipino youths from across the country are learning the ropes of how Parliament works.

They are participating in the first Canadian-Philippine Interparliamentary Program, one of the initiatives marking the maiden and nationwide celebration of Filipino Heritage Month in Canada in June 2019.

A number of municipal groups, health coalitions and advocacy organizations have protested Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s cuts to provincial public health funding. Among them is Toronto Public Health (TPH) led by its chief medical officer, Dr. Eileen de Villa, a soft-spoken mother of teenage boys and a Canadian Filipino.

Filipinos in Canada perhaps knew it intuitively but were not exactly sure. If they felt that Canadian residents of Filipino ancestry were sending more money to their country of birth than other groups, a study by Statistics Canada has validated this hunch.

The federal government has announced an investment of over $3 million for 10 women's organizations and Indigenous organizations in the Greater Montréal Area.

One of the organizations is PINAY, a Canadian Filipino group serving Filipino temporary foreign workers and immigrant women.

The flurry of pre-election activities from calling Filipino citizens to register between December 2016 and October 2018 to the final stretches of the mid-term elections came to a slow-down on election day itself, May 13, not just in the Philippines but also in Philippine consulates and embassies worldwide.

Until recently, Canada and the Philippines enjoyed warm and cordial bilateral relations.

Then it began to sour about two years ago. In November 2017, while attending an international summit in Manila, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau raised concerns about the drug war being waged by Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte.

The annual explorASIAN festival, launched on April 27 at SFU’s Djavad Mowafaghian World Art Centre in downtown Vancouver,   kicks off a May month-long celebration.

In recognition of the role of overseas Filipinos in nation-building, the Philippine government established the Commission on Filipinos Overseas (CFO) in 1980 in order to engage Filipinos abroad and strengthen their  links to the home country.  

Caregivers applying for permanent residency in Canada under an interim program are entitled to open work permits.

Vanessa Rodel is no stranger to adversity.

The 42-year-old woman fled her home in the Philippines to seek asylum in Hong Kong, claiming she was a victim of human trafficking.

With the goal of competing in the 2022 Winter Olympics, the Philippines’ first bobsled team just proved that the goal isn’t lofty for a team born and raised in the tropics.

Where are you from? It’s a question that I’ve always struggled to answer because, well, it’s complicated.

The Department of Canadian Heritage awarded CanadianFilipino.Net a grant to launch CFNet's first social media campaign.

The federal government recently launched the new Interim Pathway for Caregivers designed to provide an opportunity to stay in the country permanently for those caregivers already in Canada. This program will be open from March 4, 2019 to June 4, 2019.

Jenny Kwan, Member of the Canadian House of Commons, Member of Parliament for Vancouver East and NDP Critic for Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, was the resource speaker at the Vancouver Committee for Domestic Workers and Caregivers Right (CDWCR) workshop to discuss the recently announced new Caregivers Program to replace the current caregivers pilot program which ends in November.