Monthly Archives: December 2011

Certainties and Uncertainties in 2012

For certain: Rob Ford will continue searching for the gravy. The uncertainty: What else will he find? I hope it does not leave Toronto too much of a dry meat. A certainty: The National Democratic Party will have a new leader in 2012. The uncertainty: Who will she or he be? No one seems to measure up to… Read More »

USAPIN NG ISANG ASAWANG NAG PAKASAL MULI

Q. Isang magandang araw po! Matagal na po akong nag hahanap ng mapag tatanungan sa aking suliranin. Hindi na po ako makatulog at makapag trabaho ng maayos dahil sa kakaisip kung papaano ako makakahanap ng Legal na Opinyon mula sa mga eksperto. Kaya nag lakas loob na po akong mag email sa inyo Ako po si Letty nag… Read More »

Honouring a Fellow Activist

By Carmencita ‘Ging’ Hernandez What now, Ging? Nothing like a funeral to get people together, a time to see old friends and reacquaint with new ones with you as a centrepiece for conversation. They said you spent your life for others. There were many who visited the website John Flores, Zoraida’s nephew) set up for you. www.tinyurl.com/7gyrtvy or… Read More »

A Distant Christmas

For Filipinos who have been outside of the Philippines for years, Christmas is both a time for rejoicing and a time for remembering. Even as the Filipino in America begins to feel the holiday mood immediately after Thanksgiving when people start shopping for gifts and Christmas decors, he feels at the same time a longing for home. For… Read More »

Hassle-free Christmas Celebration

Christmas is here! Although the holiday season elicits cheers and excitement especially among children, some people feel stressed, nauseated, and overwhelmed by just the thought of it. Why is it so? Isn’t Christmas supposed to be fun and jovial? Nowadays, Christmas has been so commercialized that many children yearn for the latest, expensive gadgets. Some kids, even toddlers… Read More »

GLORIA’S “BLUE CHRISTMAS “

The telenovela continues. The Christmas season of 2011 will be an unforgettable one for former President Gloria Arroyo. After the Nov.17 airport drama where she and her husband Mike Arroyo were stopped from taking their flight to Singapore, she is now finally a detainee: officially under hospital arrest at the government-run Veterans Memorial Medical Center (VMMC), a far… Read More »

Carmencita R. Hernandez: Scholar of Humanity

By Ricardo Jorge S. Caluen Word of the passing of Carmencita “Ging” Hernandez last December 6th left the tight circle of activists within the Filipino community—in Ontario, for that matter– in a state of shock. Everyone knew how dynamic a person Ging was. As she lay comatose in her deathbed at Toronto Western General Hospital, life support systems… Read More »

RESALE ROYALTIES FOR JOURNALISTS DUE

CHICAGO (jGLi) – The recent dismissal by the Philippine Court of Appeals of the 100-million pesos (US$2.3-M) damaged suit filed by giant GMA News TV against another giant rival ABS-CBN was really a simple breach of contract between ABS-CBN and its news agency subscriber, Reuters, and Reuters’ failure to emphasize to its sub-clients to honor its sub-contract with… Read More »