Filipino Community & Lifestyle News
What does it take for Filipinos to pursue an academic career in Canada? Two academics offer their thoughtful insights for fellow kababayans. When University of Waterloo assistant professor Kimberly Lopez first met PhD candidate Giana Tomas in the fall of 2021, Giana had just arrived from Halifax to begin a years-long journey to earn her […]
In a celebration of Pinay strength, resilience, and leadership, Kalamansi Collective is bringing together an extraordinary group of Filipina-Canadian women for an International Women’s Day panel discussion on Saturday, March 8, 2025 starting at 11 a.m. at Casa Manila (879 York Mills Road) in Toronto. The event, titled Kalamansi Chats: Filipinas Breaking the Glass Ceiling—The […]
If you’re a young Filipino-Canadian ready to connect, learn, and be inspired, Pinoys on Parliament (POP) is the place to be. As Canada’s first and largest national leadership conference for Filipino-Canadian youth, POP is bringing together the next generation of changemakers for a weekend packed with workshops, panel talks, and cultural experiences from February 21–23, […]
Losing Money is Bad, But Losing Trust is Worse Scammers these days are getting smarter, mas kapal ang mukha, and way more convincing than ever. From emails saying you won a pa-premyo (raffle) you never joined, to phone calls pretending to be from immigration, to a “friend” on social media pushing some too good to […]
Immigrating to Canada at the age of 9, I found it challenging to navigate between assimilating into Canadian culture and preserving my Filipino heritage. Back then, I longed for resources and organizations like the ones available now, especially those led by the youth. Here are three remarkable Filipino-Canadian groups in the GTA, dedicated to empowering […]
With files from Edwin C. Mercurio There’s nothing more frustrating than arriving in Canada as an international student or as a Filipino newcomer and not being able to afford to buy a home, rent an apartment or even find a place to stay. “In recent years, many Toronto homes have become more and more expensive,” […]
As told by Estrella Mercurio, NSWOCC (Nurses Specialized in Wound, Ostomy and Continence Canada) Sometimes, it’s the smell that hits you first when you enter a patient’s room. The patients can’t help it, often the wound is considered non-healable. With the embarassment of subjecting family members to the smell, the patient decides not to […]
An unexplained manananggal sighting as an eight-year-old triggered Motzie Dapul‘s interest in horror stories and the occult. A manananggal is a winged, fanged creature with a severed lower body—a very common mythical creature in Filipino stories. “Nung eight-years-old ako, me manananggal sa labas ng bintana sa Batangas. Nakita ko ang anino, wala akong makita na […]
As an eight-year-old, Filipina politician Malaya Marcelino already knew she was interested in politics: her hobby involved writing down federal cabinet ministers’ names meticulously in a notebook. “If there was a cabinet shuffle I would have to redo everything,” she said. Marcelino is currently serving as Manitoba’s Minister of Labour and Immigration, elected as a […]
As Noreen Ocampo—a Philippine-born, Canadian-trained dental hygienist on a medical mission to the Philippines—peered into the mouth of a young boy from Smokey Mountain, her heart broke at what she saw. “Nabulok na ang permanent teeth (his permanent teeth were all rotted out),” Ocampo said. She said most of the kids from Smokey Mountain—one of […]
