First, medical doctors became furious when the Bureau of Internal Revenue’s shame campaign hit the road with the first of a series of advertisements- the print ad, published in the Philippine Inquirer showed a doctor piggybacking on a teacher who presumably earns a lower salary than her but pays higher taxes to the BIR. To the rescue came… Read More »
With his family and well-known community leaders and friends around him to stress his political outlook, Filipino-Canadian lawyer Rafael Fabregas kicks off a grassroots campaign to win the nomination of the Liberal Party of Canada and hopefully become its standard bearer in the election for a seat in Parliament representing Scarborough Centre riding in the Greater Toronto Area.… Read More »
I planned to stay a year. Here I am on my forty-first year of living in the country, Canada. I left the Philippines on a one-year leave from my position at work. After the first year I wrote my place of work for another year of extension of my leave. After two years, I went back and personally… Read More »
I planned to stay a year. Here I am on my forty-first year of living in the country, Canada. I left the Philippines on a one-year leave from my position at work. After the first year I wrote my place of work for another year of extension of my leave. After two years, I went back and personally… Read More »
The Supreme Court has an uncanny way of commemorating the 28th anniversary of the People’s Power Revolution. On a day when the whole nation was celebrating the restoration of freedom in the country with the downfall of strongman Ferdinand Marcos following four days of massive protests on EDSA in February 1986, twelve justices of the Supreme Court opted… Read More »
Simple words but worth so much more because they are expressed with the whole heart of a nation that went through a very recent harrowing experience of devastation and very quickly received such grand and great show of support from many nations of the world. The visuals that graced these words of gratitude were ‘tourism’ photos- glossy, featuring… Read More »
MANILA Is the law catching up with the legislators who had allegedly skimmed off their PDAF allocations? Are these legislators quaking in their boots now? The so-called pork barrel scam here is the most scandalous case of theft of the people’s money in recent times. Supposedly a brainchild of “pork queen” Janet Lim Napoles, the scheme… Read More »
~”Below zero” was how Rey Valera describes his life before fame and fortune beckoned. He was impoverished and living with relatives whose kindness he repaid by doing household chores for them. He found refuge among the dead, in a cemetery near where he stayed in Bulacan. That was his studio. Almost half of the hit songs he wrote was composed in… Read More »
When we talk to immigrants about things they most value in living in Canada, one of the first things they would mention is health care privileges. “You can rush to a doctor or a hospital with your health card and not worry that you do not have enough money to pay for the health care services you badly… Read More »
More than three months after super typhoon Yolanda wrought havoc on Leyte, Samar and other provinces in Central Visayas, the devastated cities look just slightly better than when they were a few days after the calamity struck. The affected people, hundreds of thousands of them, remain homeless, without source of income, without adequate food and basic necessities, without… Read More »