Since 2005 Philippine Press Club Ontario has played host to annual winners of Marshall McLuhan Prize for excellence in Philippine journalism. This year’s winner is Carol Arguilles, news editor of prolific no-nonsense weekly web-based paper published from Davao City, the Mindanews. The Marshall McLuhan Prize is a “flagship public diplomacy” initiative of the Canadian Embassy in Manila. Named… Read More »
This piece has nothing to do with a Shakespearean play. It is rather exactly what it was or is: all’s well that ends well. It all started with a call for help from a friend whom I have not seen nor heard from for many years. Well, when you are in this part of the globe it is… Read More »
Summer is on its way out and so is the rumbling around festivals. But could you imagine a world for Filipinos without any festival at all — as in AT ALL? I could not. Filipinos would disappear from the planet the moment Euphrosyne, the goddess of mirth, takes away singing, dancing, beauty pageants, and anything to do with… Read More »
With the brouhaha over questions as to which festival is the biggest, the grandest, most popular, high-speed money-maker, one would wonder what would come next. If the intent is to outdo each other, then the same question will be asked all over again next round, next year. I was invited to the ‘ABS-CBN Canada One Kapamilya sa Mabuhay… Read More »
With the brouhaha over questions as to which festival is the biggest, the grandest, most popular, high-speed money-maker, one would wonder what would come next. If the intent is to outdo each other, then the same question will be asked all over again next round, next year. I was invited to the ‘ABS-CBN Canada One Kapamilya sa Mabuhay… Read More »
Orlando Quevedo, Juan de Dios Pueblos, and Romulo Valles share things in common. They are not plain men of the cloth only but are bishops of the Roman Catholic Church; they are honourable men and highly respected princes of the Church. Recently, the three, together with four other bishops, were top news sharing the headlines as Philippine media… Read More »
If you have been following the news from the homeland lately, you would have known how water lilies and hyacinths have caused a whole city to drown; well — almost. For many days, Cotabato City where I had spent a great deal of my youthful life was submerged in deep water that put life in that city to… Read More »
This month Filipinos mark the 113th anniversary of Philippine Independence from Spain. It is important to emphasize that freedom gained was won from Spain. It was this victory that Americans snatched away from Filipinos in connivance with Spain who said that it could not surrender to an inferior race and instead gave the country, lock stock and barrel,… Read More »
I f you are reading–or even just simply staring at– this column this very moment, you must rejoice; you are alive. You survived the cataclysmic end. May 21 came to pass and we are still here with the world intact around us except for a few dents from the havoc in several places caused either by nature like… Read More »