Appeal to GTA outlets of Filipino Newspapers

Appeal to GTA outlets of Filipino Newspapers

During the last several months, bundles of newspaper copies were stolen from your respective stores by the publisher of one Filipino newspaper and his delivery people.

Among those victimized to our knowledge were Filipiniana, Philippine Times and lately, Manila Media Monitor.

In an exchange of e-mails circulated among publishers of Filipino papers in the GTA, Balita and Philippine Reporter likewise came forward to report that the same happened to their newspapers recently.

We know who the culprit publisher is, and his delivery persons. Understandably, we could not be watching over the bundles of our respective publications with so many Filipino newspaper outlets in GTA, hence, this appeal to all of you.

Please take notice of deliveries of newspapers at your respective outlets. Should you see this publisher and his delivery men carting away copies or bundles of newspapers other than their own from your respective stores and professional offices, please report the matter to the undersigned publishers so that appropriate actions may be taken against these people; or better still, please call the police since this act by this publisher and his delivery people constitutes theft, a criminal offense in any legal jurisdiction.

In several instances, this theft happened late at night when your stores were already closed, and when newly delivered newspapers were left by your door. Should you have security cameras that caught the act on tape, please inform us of the same.

With the strong role of Filipino-Canadian newspapers and magazines as a source of news and information happening in and around our community, and as a resource for those who have just arrived to settle in this country, we, the undersigned publishers/editors — together with the president of the Philippine Press Club-Ontario, appeal to you for your very kind cooperation to stop this publisher from further engaging in this unfair and criminal practice against his perceived competition. It is obvious he is doing this for a purely selfish profit motive.

Maraming salamat po sa pagbibigay ninyo ng daan sa kahilingang ito.

Ace Alvarez
Managing Editor, Manila Media Monitor

Rose Ami
Publisher. Planet Philippines

Jose Baking
Publisher, Confidential

Tess Cusipag
Managing Editor, Balita

Ramon Datol
Publisher, Philippine Courier

Hermie Garcia
Publisher and Editor, The Philippine Reporter

Bin Kon Loo
Publisher, Filipiniana

Turing Muere
Publisher, Likha Newsmagazine

Tenny Soriano
President, Philippine Press Club-Ontario