Editorial

The summer of 2020 is unlike any other summer we have had before. 

 With the country still in lockdown mode, the usual favorite summer activities are out –  travelling to a “Must-see wonder of the world” or picnicking on the beach with many friends.

On May 22 this year, the Vancouver Police Department expressed heightened concern about rising anti-Asian hate crimes in the city.

Mother’s Day in Canada is celebrated every second Sunday in May.

It is a national holiday but not a public or bank holiday so businesses are open just like any other Sunday.

You don’t have to be a scientist to figure out that what has befallen the entire world these recent times will not go away as quickly as it is spreading.

COVID-19 has further upended an already topsy-turvy world. The virus knows no gender, country, age or social standing. It doesn’t choose who to infect. 

Dear Prime Minister Trudeau,

Citizens of the world recently commemorated International Women’s Day.

The world is marking International Women’s Day on March 8, 2020.

According to the United Nations, the theme of this year’s celebration is ‘I am Generation Equality: Realizing Women’s Rights’.

According to the Philippine Embassy in Ottawa,  of the 837,130 people in Canada with Filipino ethnic origin based on the census conducted in May 2016,

In Canada, it is called the Justice for Victims of Corrupt Foreign Officials Act (Sergei Magnitsky Law), passed in 2017 following the United States’ enactment of the Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act of 2012. 

It’s easy to get caught up in the Christmas rush.

With all the holiday shopping that needs to be done and the family gatherings and parties with friends that one has to attend, there is only so much time.

November not only commemorates All Saints and All Souls days but celebrates the birth of Philippine national hero, Andres Bonifacio, on November 30.

About two weeks before the writ dropped on September 11, 2019, signaling the start of the federal election campaign, results of a survey were released by Simon Fraser University’s Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue in Vancouver.

As the world warms up with the activities of its more than seven billion global population, extreme weather events are becoming more frequent and intense: sea levels are rising, prolonged droughts are putting pressure on food crops, and many animal and plant species are being driven to extinction. Since climate change is primarily man-made, we as individuals can do something to resolve a problem of this scale and severity.