The rising inequality is widening the gap between the poor and rich households in Toronto twice the national pace. Despite the growing population, rising employment rate, and growth in GDP, life in the city still poses a struggle especially among youth, newcomers and racialized communities. The following are some of the harsh realities pulled from the Toronto Foundation’s… Read More »
MY OKINAWAN ADVENTURE By: Edwin de Leon, March 1, 2023 The holiday months of December- January is when I get holiday greetings from former students at Christ the King International High School (CKHS) on the southern Japanese Island of Okinawa, the biggest in a chain of islands of the Ryukyus. It’s a lot more than just the annual… Read More »
Kapansin-pansin ang kagandahan ng panahon these past few weeks. Ang paligid ay mas madalas na luntian kaysa puti and it looks a lot like spring. Welcomed are the moments when Bathala, through Haring Araw, peeks through the clouds and inspects kung maayos ang lahat sa kanyang kaharian at kinasasakupan. May ngiti naman ng pagmamahal sa labi ni Inang… Read More »
“Democracy is fragile. You have to fight for every bit, every law, every safeguard, every institution, every story. You must know how dangerous it is to suffer even the tiniest cut. This is why I say to us all: we must hold the line.” — Maria Ressa. Oftentimes a small nation does not so much get the acclamation… Read More »
[Toronto, CANADA]—February 28, 2023—OTT Remit, an international remittance services provider, is sponsoring LBC’s 5th annual badminton tournament in Scarborough, Ontario. OTT Remit is excited to partner with LBC, the leading Filipino cargo and courier services company, to sponsor this year’s LBC badminton tournament. This year will mark LBC’s 5th tourney held in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), and… Read More »
Children born with heart defects are known to have congenital heart disease or CHD. CHDs that affect children include heart valve disorders or narrowing of the aortic valve, hypoplastic heart syndrome where the left side of the heart is underdeveloped, and disorders involving holes in the heart, typically in the walls between the chambers and between major blood… Read More »
February 24 declared a special non-working day SWS: 62% of Pinoys say spirit of EDSA still alive — President Marcos has declared Feb. 24 a special non-working day throughout the country, applying the holiday economics principle on the anniversary of the EDSA people power revolution, the uprising that ousted his father and namesake. The declaration is contained… Read More »
By: Edwin Anyayahan Esteba SANA ALAM MO ANG TAMA Lahat ng bagay ibinibigay sa iyo Lahat ng gusto mo ay kanyang suportado Pero bakit nagagawa mo pang magloko? Mahal ka nya pero iyong ginagago Ikaw ang walang taong kasiyahan Pamilya hindi mo pinapahalagahan Iniisip mo lamang sariling kaligayahan Hirap at pagod niya hindi mo masuklian Maraming tao ang… Read More »
“Oh Wind. If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?”, Percy Bysshe Shelley, one of the major English Romantic poets, echoes everyone’s hopes as winter comes to a much-awaited end in his famous line. It certainly resonates with many of us as the month of March comes around. Shelley was considered radical in his poetry as well as… Read More »
Being the first Batch of students of the Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila when it opened in 1967 as the first tuition-free university in the Phillippines—they are your Kuya and Ate, the eldest in the Pamantasan family. Being a scholar does not mean all work and no play; it’s not all study, study and study. Remember this song,… Read More »