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Why a festival of this nature, meaning having a historical content. A quick story. In my first week in Canada in November 1984, I was… 11/22/2019
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Notebook
NOTEBOOK: Why Andres Bonifacio Festival?
Was Rizal an American-sponsored hero?
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More than a week ago, on June 4, an audience of a few dozen mostly Filipino Canadians were awed in a presentation of historical facts,… 06/14/2019
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Red-tagging and troll journalism
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It’s a classic case of “Missing the point, beating around the bush and jumping to conclusion.” It’s way of emphasizing what a writer or journalist… 10/26/2018
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Interesting pictures and quotes
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08/11/2017
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Thoughts on the role of community media
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Keynote Address, PPCO holiday party, Dec. 8, 2016, Toronto Let me acknowledge first the bountiful harvest of recruits PPCO has this year. More importantly, we… 01/13/2017
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‘History will absolve me‘ — Fidel Castro
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(“History Will Absolve Me” is the title of a four-hour speech made by Fidel Castro on 16 October 1953. Castro made the speech in his… 12/09/2016
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The 2016 Philippine elections: Democratic? Hope for change?
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The Philippine presidential and local elections are set for May 9, less than three weeks from now. Already the race for the top executive position… 04/22/2016
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Ikaw Na: What is to be done
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Last Sept. 26, dozens of young and not-so-young members of the Filipino community gathered at the YWCA in Toronto in a meeting tagged “#Ikaw Na,… 10/09/2015
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Blog #16: Insecure, temporary status
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There is permanent instability in the status of temporary foreign workers and undocumented immigrants in North America. I recently read a news report about an… 07/10/2015
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Blog #7: Philippine poverty, economy — is it any better now?
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In my Blog #5, I wrote about Canadian household debt, the worsening debt-income ratio (debt divided by income) and the rising consumer debt. It wasn’t… 06/26/2015
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