Immigration recruiters are licensed professionals. Without a license you cannot recruit at all. As simple as that. Naomi Ong has no license, but she has been recruiting people to come to Canada. She succeeded in bringing over artists, band, to perform here in Toronto, but they have yet to be paid. Included in one band was her mother… Read More »
For four years, we saw the meteoric rise of Donald J. Trump from a reality show producer to the President of the United States. That’s a quantum leap from an obscure position in the TV industry to the highest political position in the world – the leader of the Free World! How did he manage to achieve that? By sheer… Read More »
All Souls Day is here and for people who lost their loved ones, it will surely be a day for remembering. For me, my late husband Ruben Cusipag, had been gone for over seven years, but his memories remain as fresh, as if it happened just yesterday. The Founder of Balita Newspaper, a journalist by heart, a social… Read More »
First things first! November 1, obviously the first day and the first Sunday of the month, is the end of DaylightSaving Time. Lest you forget, rewind back clocks one hour, from 2 a.m. to 1 a.m., and be in sync with regularity.It’s really no big deal but I still brag: The Philippines is ahead of Canada by 12… Read More »
Another Thanksgiving Day has come and gone, and again as we look back at the adversities we faced, we cannot but be thankful that, personally and for Balita, we have pulled through another year barely scratched, with body and soul still fully intact, and consequently , with the clarity of mind, still defending me and Balita against evils… Read More »
I have often wondered why many nursery rhymes speak about bad things and mishaps. Take a read of two of the popular ones below. “Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water. Jack fell down and broke his crown, and Jill came tumbling after.” Internet sources noted that the rhyme’s earliest version, which… Read More »
The news came in at 9:00 PM on October 1, 2020. “President Donald Trump tweets he Melania test positive for Covid-19.” It was the most shocking news since Trump won the presidency in 2016. It’s a staggering blow to Trump’s reelection campaign. With 32 days left to Election Day, 14 days of which will keep Trump in quarantine, that would leave… Read More »
What if President Donald Trump wins on November 3 based on 15% of the vote by mail ballots that had been counted? According to FiveThirtyEight, this could give Trump a projected lead of 408-130 electoral votes on election night. But once 75% of mail ballots are counted, four days later, the lead could flip to Joe Biden’s favor. This particular modeling… Read More »
Proud Mary. Mary was routinely checking her parked car when she heard faint, frightened and repetitive squeaks emanating from within an empty metal garbage receptacle nearby. Curious to know the reason for the noise, Mary walked to and surveyed the bin, to find a trapped and hapless small squirrel inside. The squirrel had nothing to cling to or… Read More »
On September 23, 2020, President Donald Trump was asked if he would commit to a peaceful transfer of power should he lose the election to Joe Biden? His response was “Well, we’re going to have to see what happens. You know that I’ve been complaining very strongly about the ballots, and the ballots are a disaster.” What he said next… Read More »