I felt very sad when I heard that the Toronto City Council scrapped the funding for the High Park Zoo. What that gravy? The children and the parents who are often visitors to this small zoo did not demonstrate at Toronto City Hall. They gathered together and tried to raise the $100,000 needed until the end of the… Read More »
News report says that Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago is “poised to move to cite for contempt public opinion poll makers Pulse Asia and the Social Weather Station for conducting their March surveys asking respondents to give their take on the guilt or innocence of the accused in the ongoing impeachment trial.” “The accused,” the report continues, “as one would… Read More »
When the “noynoying” concept went viral, Malacanang spokesmen pointed to President Noynoy Aquino’s high approval ratings to stress that those who were “noynoying” during protests and rallies do not reflect the sentiment of the Filipino people. Now that the latest Social Weather Station survey showed that his net approval rating has dropped by nine percentage points, the Palace… Read More »
“Forty percent of all male tourists who visit the Philippines go there for sex.” The American ambassador to the Philippines, a guy named Harry Thomas, made this statement sometime ago. On the heels of the ensuing uproar among discerning Filipinos over his imprudent remarks, Thomas apologized. It appears he apologized just to quell the Filipinos’ anger. He apologized… Read More »
CHICAGO (jGLi) –In the incredible search for truth by the Philippine Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR), it resulted in an unintended consequence – its unlikely alliance with Filipinos’ enemy No. 1 – American boxing champion Floyd Mayweather, Jr. I am very sure, I am speaking with authority, that not a single Filipino with a drop of Filipino blood… Read More »
CHICAGO (jGLi) – Silence did not figure as too golden for Filipino American caregiver Carmelita Pasamba when she suddenly found a “new wealth” from her forgetful elderly ward Marshall F. Davies, 93, who could no longer “tell his age or day of the week.” Instead of keeping everything to herself and becoming a full-time caregiver to Mr. Davies,… Read More »
If his mother’s yardstick were to be followed, President Noynoy Aquino’s economic program would get a failing grade. During the snap election campaign in 1986, opposition presidential candidate Corazon Aquino, in downplaying the economic achievements of then President Ferdinand Marcos, said that the price of “galunggong” has risen to P12 a kilo (about 80 US cents at the… Read More »
My two sisters who are with me here in Canada recently went back to the Philippines in a hurry. My eldest sister died. It was very difficult for our family. There was that immense difficult feeling of loss and helplessness coupled with that sense of guilt- that we were not with her when she departed from this world.… Read More »
“Sunlight is the best disinfectant.” ― William O. Douglas What a happy coincidence! The arrival of spring and the change in leadership in the Toronto Filipino community’s top organization. The season of rebirth comes and goes without fail, year in and year out. But up there in PIDC (Philippine Independence Day Council), the umbrella for “almost 300” community… Read More »
When I first read about “noynoying,” my initial reaction was it was about President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III’s romantic escapades and so I ignored it. Haven’t we heard enough of his girlfriends? But it turned out that anti-government groups protesting against rising gas prices coined“noynoying.” They’re complaining that Noynoy hasn’t done anything productive. Thus, “noynoying” became the new… Read More »