Jennie Salonga’s 50th Birthday SURPRISE! Jennie Garcia Salonga (center, in Cleopatra costume) attends a Halloween party only to find out it was a surprise 50th birthday party her family had prepared for her, complete with lots of food, two cakes, dancing by costumed guests from four generations of her extended family. It was held at ⇒

The Order of the Knights of Rizal, Canada Region, is set to hold its’ 15th Commander’s Ball on October 18, 2014, at the Kalayaan Cultural and Community Center,  Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. The event  will be jointly hosted by Mississauga chapter of the Knights of Rizal headed by Commander Sir Tom Eng, KCR and Sir Joe ⇒

TORONTO–TPF Canada is pleased to announce this year’s festivities in the upcoming 2014 Toronto Paskuhan Festival lineup. Now on its third year of offering the Filipino-Canadian community the best of the season, Paskuhan 2014 will celebrate the most wonderful time of the year in three various locations in the Greater Toronto Area. On November 16, ⇒

Philippine-based Mikey Bustos, the You Tuber, Singer/Songwriter, Actor, Comedian and Radio DJ, will be back to his hometown Toronto for a concert on November 8th, 2014, Saturday, at the Korean Cultural Centre, located at 1133 Leslie St. in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The concert named ‘The Balikbayan Box’ is an undertaking of the Appledrive Project Philippines ⇒

The Philippine Press Club of Ontario (PPCO) will host a Press Forum event featuring Filipino-Canadian candidates to positions in the school board, and municipal and federal government. The event will be held on Friday, Sept. 19. 2014, 6:30 p.m. at FV Foods restaurant, 280 Wilson Avenue, North York. The event dinner buffet is $10 per ⇒

Toronto-based non-profit Halo-Halo Organization (h2o) will inaugurate the very first Halo-Halo Festival in Canada, which will be held on August 17, 2014, from 8am to 10pm, at Artscape Wychwood Barns in Toronto. According to one of the organizers, Hernani de Leon, the cultural event aims “to communicate with the younger Filipino generation who were born ⇒

PIDC’s signature event, the 16th annual Mabuhay Philippines Festival, is set to deliver another extraordinary addition to Toronto’s summer festival line-up with the theme for this year being “Pagdiriwang” or Celebration. The event will be on August 23 and 24 2014. Activities will start at 12:00pm to 10:00 pm on Saturday and 12:00pm to 6:00pm ⇒

By Voltaire R. de Leon You are all in for a surprise. The first Halo Halo Festival is winding up for a great Sunday the 17th of August. It will be quite a ride. The newly-formed Halo Halo Organization or H2O will be hosting the event at the Artscape Wychwood Barns (St. Clair West and ⇒

TASTE OF MANILA presscon was held at Cusina Lounge on July 23, 2014.

If you happen to visit Scarborough, along McCowan Rd., you will be surprised to be greeted by young students with a “Magandang Hapon Po!” or some students getting your hand, and asking for your blessing, “Mano Po!”. They are students of Ms. Maria Regala from St. Ignatius Catholic School. She is conducting Filipino Classes to ⇒