Another joyful and magical Christmas season has passed. While with it went the festive mood, happy memories of kinship, friendship and community spirit were created. Not to worry. Believing hearts and minds still bear the eternal hope that all the loving, giving and receiving and the greetings and toasts for good health and wealth remains, for all… Read More »
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 »
Justin Trudeau’s government is sparking outrage among people of faith and conscience yet again this week (Dec 15, 2017) after telling Members of Parliament that they will force employers to support abortion and transgenderism in order to get student summer job funding. This news is only Trudeau’s latest attack on people of faith. The prime minister who so… Read More »
Trivia: With the Yuletide season reverberates in our midst, one can’t help but to remember the popular Filipino ditties from the ‘50s still love to belt by Pinoys, especially the carolers. These songs were popularized by Ruben Tagalog, Diomedes Maturan, Ric Manrique and Didith Reyes. These were Ang Pasko ay Sumapit, Cumbachero, Merry Christmas na Maluwalhati, Miss… Read More »
Dear Sir, Kami po ay 5 magkakapatid, ang aming tatay po ay may naiwan na real property, at ang titulo po ay nakapangalan sa kanya “married to” sa unang asawa nya na namatay na noon 1968. Si tatay ay nagpakasal uli at nagkaroon sila ng 2 anak. Kasabay ng panahong ito ay nagkaroon pala sya ng mga… Read More »
Sports fans and aficionados in Toronto have every reason to jump with joy and spread the spirit of community pride these days. Better known as Toronto FC, the Toronto Football Club captured its first ever Major League Soccer (MLS) Cup title after dominating the MLS Western Conference titlist Seattle Sounders 2-0 in the league’s championship match at the… Read More »
MANILA For the police here to now say there have not been any extrajudicial killings (EJKs) committed in the country since President Rodrigo Duterte took office is unmitigated gall. To have the audacity to say that shows they’re overconfident they can fool us. There is documentary evidence — videos, witness statements — that show police gunning down crime… Read More »
Amid uncertainties raised by President Duterte’s threats to declare a revolutionary government or a nationwide martial law, now comes another debate on a hot issue that would put the country’s future just as uncertain – the proposal to replace the current unitary form of government to that of a federal system of government. Early last month, the… Read More »
BlowHotBlowCold is a Canadian – American opinion-based column that premiered more than a decades ago in the Filipino-Canadian newspaper BALITA where I discussed the latest issues and controversies affecting Filipino-Canadians and Filipino-Americans. It was discontinued when I left Bell Canada in 2006 and accepted a consulting job at AT&T in NJ. I am now retired and Tess Cusipag… Read More »
We have a farmland in the Philippines, our tenant or the one cultivating the land is my aunt. But my aunt in return took somebody to share her position maybe because it is too much for her since she’s getting old. Years later, the person whom my aunt get to cultivate the land in her behalf died.… Read More »