Category Archives: Editorial

MANNY COULD BE CINDERELLA WITH UNHAPPY ENDING?

“Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” — John 8:32 CHICAGO (FAXX/jGLi) – If Manny Pacquiao will not play his cards well, he might end up as a modern-day Cinderella. But minus his slippers and his golden carriage! In my phone interview Thursday (Jan. 2) with Manny Pacquiao’s Top Rank promoter Bob… Read More »

MELINDA AND JEFF RUSTIA’S ONE-MILLION-DOLLAR COMPLAINT Ghost Spammer Sparks Lawsuit Against ‘Balita’ Newspaper

~ A complaint based on online interaction between a a ghost spammer and some individuals in the community has reached the Ontario Superior Court of Justice. A mother and her son initiated the lawsuit against Toronto’s largest newspaper and its publisher and a reporter seeking a total of one million dollars for allegedly damaging their reputation. But the… Read More »

Promises, promises

When President Aquino promptly rejected an offer by Energy Secretary Carlos Jericho Petilla to resign over a failed promise to restore power in the areas devastated by super typhoon Yolanda before Christmas, he simply proved he didn’t give a hoot about making and breaking promises. After all, the President has made and broken a lot of promises himself.… Read More »

Resiliency and hope

It should not surprise us anymore that despite the difficulties and corruption scandals of the past year, the Filipinos would remain as optimistic as ever of the coming year. Year after year, hope springs eternal for Filipinos as shown by surveys in the last few years. The surveys last year by both Pulse Asia and the Social Weather… Read More »

Tales from the Ice Storm

There were signals that this is going to be a bad winter. Remember the plunging temperature and snow storm in November? But what do we expect? This is Canada. As a friend of mine from Quebec said. “This is nothing. This is winter in this part of the world.” In early December temperature in the mid west was… Read More »

Goodbye to the Turmoils of 2013-

I am writing by the window to get some light. We have power outage here in Thornhill. IT started at about nine on Saturday and it is already eleven in the morning Sunday and electricity is not back. Is this the last storm of the year? I wonder!. There are nine more days left. I woke up this… Read More »

A distant Christmas

For Filipinos who have been outside of the Philippines for years, Christmas is both a time for rejoicing and a time for remembering. Even as the Filipino in America begins to feel the holiday mood immediately after Thanksgiving when people start shopping for gifts and Christmas decors, he feels at the same time a longing for home. For… Read More »

2014 FORECAST

Vibration is once again so high and psychics and seers are again asked by people what are the things we will expect and adjustment that we will be doing to have a wonderful year of 2014. Once again the coming New Year starts with a year-ender reading and forecast from psychic vibrations of things that will happen in… Read More »