Canadian Filipino
Informing, Engaging and Connecting Community
February 1, 2024 — The Philippines and Canada are boosting their defense partnership with a new memorandum of understanding (MOU) that could potentially see greater cooperation between their military forces.
February 1, 2024 – Established in 1997, the prestigious Marshall McLuhan Fellowship is awarded annually by the Canadian Embassy in the Philippines to a recipient “embodying outstanding qualities in the field of investigative journalism.” Launched in 1997, it is part of the embassy’s advocacy to encourage responsible journalism in the Philippines with the belief that a strong media is essential to a strong democratic society. Sun Life of Canada is a major sponsor of the program.
February 1, 2024 — Canada and the Philippines are marking in 2024 the 75th anniversary of diplomatic ties between the two countries.
February 1, 2024 – Following a recruitment blitz by the Province of Manitoba in 2023, 35 health care workers have arrived from the Philippines in January.
January 16, 2024 — The Philippine Consulate General in Vancouver holds its second conference for Filipino international students on Saturday, February 3, at the Creekside Community Center in False Creek, Vancouver, from 10 AM to 3 PM. It is to help Filipino students who are already in B.C. adjust to student life in Canada.The free conference is in partnership with the University of the Philippines Alumni Association in BC.
January 16, 2024 — Canada is supplementing its official development assistance or ODA to the Philippines by $15 million over the next number of years.
January 16, 2024 – Hard-working (masipag) is often an adjective attributed to Filipinos wherever they may be in the world.
January 1, 2024 — The Philippine Consulate General in Vancouver starts its year-long celebration of the 75th Anniversary of Phil-Canada relation with a Thanksgiving Mass at 5:00 PM on Saturday, January 16, at the Holy Rosary Cathedral (646 Richards St., Vancouver BC) followed by a reception.
January 1, 2024 – In a much-awaited move, the province of British Columbia proclaimed December 18 as International Migrants Day (IMD).
January 1, 2024 — Thanks to international migration, Canada’s population increased to 40,528,396 as of October 1, 2023.
December 16, 2023 — Canada has condemned China over “acts of intimidation” against the Philippines in the South China Sea, areas of which Manila refers to as the West Philippine Sea.
December 16, 2023 – A recently released study by Statistics Canada reveals that Canadian Filipino women had the lowest rate of self-employment at only five percent. Black Canadian women are slightly higher than Canadian Filipino women at six percent compared to their Korean counterparts who had the highest self-employment rate at 25 percent.
December 1, 2023 — Canada is deploying a state-of-the-art surveillance system to help the Philippines protect its sovereign waters.
November 16, 2023 — The B.C. provincial government has passed new legislation that will benefit internationally trained professionals.
November 16, 2023 — Marc Miller, Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, has laid out Canada’s immigration targets for 2024-2026.
November 1, 2023 — Neri Colmenares, a former member of the House of Representatives in the Philippines, visited Canada and met with several Members of Parliament (MPs), elected officials, and government representatives regarding the situation in the Philippines.
November 1, 2023 — Malaya Marcelino is the new Minister of Labour and Immigration in Manitoba.
