Editorial

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.

There are an estimated 370 million indigenous people in the world, living across 90 countries, making up less than five per cent of the world's population, but account for 15 per cent of the poorest.

Indigenous peoples speak a huge majority of the world’s estimated 7,000 languages and represent 5,000 different cultures.

June 2019 is a special month for Canadian Filipinos.

For the first time in Canada, Filipino Heritage Month is being celebrated across the country.

2019 is shaping up to be a historic year for Canadian Filipinos.

In the Philippines, general elections are taking place mid-way into the current Duterte administration in May, and ballots for overseas voting have been mailed to every registered voter residing elsewhere in the world.

The world is marking International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination on March 21.

The annual event is an opportunity to renew the commitment to eradicate all forms of discrimination because of race.

For most, to call 2018 a crazy year is an understatement, what with new realities like fake news and the #MeToo movement. But 2019 forces us Filipinos to remind ourselves of who we are, what we are made of, what we are capable of doing. A new year is a chance to turn over a new leaf, to turn our backs on the year that was and to accept a brand new opportunity to make real changes. And we Filipinos can easily do that by going back to the basics through the virtues that we have become known the world over – but this time with the wisdom of those many lessons we have learned as a people.

The elimination of poverty is one of the loftiest goals of government.

However, delivering on this objective is easier said than done.

This fall, six of Canada’s 10 provinces will be holding local government elections. Based on historical voter turnouts, it’s not looking very promising.

It may come as a big surprise for many in Canada to learn that public universities in several countries belonging to the European Union do not charge tuition fees.

We’ve seen it on Netflix – the wildly popular Stranger Things have characters cross into the “upside down” world where the air is toxic,

Home is where the heart is.

We have all heard this phrase, and even without pausing to think about it, we know what it means.