Understanding Bipolar Disorder: Recognizing the Signs, Finding Hope, and Supporting Recovery

Bipolar disorder is a mental health condition that affects a person’s mood, energy, activity levels, and ability to function in daily life. Unlike ordinary ups and downs, bipolar disorder involves significant shifts between periods of elevated mood, known as mania or hypomania, and periods of depression. Historically called “manic depression,” the condition has been recognized for centuries, but… Read More »

Sabong: A Filipino Tradition is not allowed in other countries

For many Filipinos, sabong, or cockfighting, is more than gambling. It has long been woven into our culture and social life. Around the cockpit, men meet, exchange stories, discuss the day’s political issues, make friends, and simply spend time together. For generations, sabong has been part of the social landscape of many Filipino communities. Cockfighting in the Philippines… Read More »

Five Truths Job Seekers Keep Refusing to Accept

Punching a brick wall will fracture your hand. Yelling at the rainstorm you got caught in won’t keep you from getting soaked. Fighting realities you can’t change isn’t a how-to-live-life strategy or a job-search strategy; it’s self-sabotage. Yet many job seekers waste time and energy raging against ingrained hiring realities, growing bitter and angry when their expectations aren’t… Read More »

ONCE FULL OF LIFE

Flashing lights, strobe effects, and pounding music in an underground club provides an alternate world for Ukrainian youth whose lives have been upended by Russia’s invasion. Five years into the protracted war, men, and women in their twenties find their own ways of coping with the ongoing conflict. Their day to day existence is threatened by the unpredictability… Read More »

WHEN EVERYONE’S “UP AGAINST IT”

Among hundreds of films featured at the recently concluded Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF26), there was one particular film description that easily caught one’s scrutiny while browsing and sifting through long pronouncements specific to each title: “Up Against It.” Although this film enlisted an imposing line-up of international names for its ensemble, its synopsis sounded unduly familiar. Its… Read More »

Sabong: A Filipino Tradition is not allowed in other countries

For many Filipinos, sabong, or cockfighting, is more than gambling. It has long been woven into our culture and social life. Around the cockpit, men meet, exchange stories, discuss the day’s political issues, make friends, and simply spend time together. For generations, sabong has been part of the social landscape of many Filipino communities. Cockfighting in the Philippines… Read More »

TODAY IS UNDAS –A CELEBRATION OF LIFE

What is more Filipino than celebrating Undas? It is a Filipino tradition celebrating both All Saints’ Day (Nov 1) and All Souls’ Day (Nov 2) to pay respects and honor the memories of our dearly departed. For me, it also a way of showing our gratitude to our parents for bringing us into this world, no matter the… Read More »

WANTED

Secretary 4 days per week part time 5 hrs. per day = 20 hrs total Location – Toronto, Richmond Street office  Must speak Tagalog Duties: phones, take messages, data entry/completing forms online using computer. Office has MAC computers