On April 24th, the Toronto Star carried on its upper fold the story of a dying caregiver, 44-year-old Maricon Gerente, who was granted the elusive permanent residence status. It was reported that it was no less than Minister Jason Kenney who decided to dispatch two immigration officers to Oakville-Trafalgar Memorial Hospital to fingerprint the unresponsive Gerente in exchange… Read More »
The Honourable Mike Duffy Senate of Canada Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0A4 Dear Senator Duffy, Hardly a month after your appointment, John Fewings, in his cartoon of yourself as the poster boy for the abolition of the Canadian Senate, won’t be able to foresee how right he was at that time. While I agreed with his message then, I… Read More »
By Stephanie Waddell It’s a story that’s not all that new to Canada: Immigrants arriving here looking for a better life for their families. In this case, it’s a glimpse into the lives of a small number of Filipinos who have moved to the Yukon in search of a better life and contributed to the territory many now… Read More »
It is a very common subject to write about. There are pages of discussions of which are all over the World Wide Web. But throughout my life, I have not been invited to a single public discussion about the topic. Never been a question asked by my teacher or instructor or professor in my school or university. One… Read More »
Numbers. We can’t live with them, we can’t live without them. We count how much we do and don’t do, have and don’t have, the useful and the useless…the good, the bad and the ugly…the number of times we seek attention and recognition and the number of times we failed…the number of times using the urinals, toilets, how… Read More »
The good news is that the world did not end in the 2012 winter solstice – December 2012 – as the Mayan predicted it. Thank goodness. The bad news is that we still have to put up with the world problems. It is a mess. Maybe we can petition the Almighty God to stop it as world turns… Read More »
Some Canadians as I have read a few times, believe they have no ideology unlike other peoples of the Free World. That makes them somewhat unique, truly free of the albatross or hang ups other peoples have to struggle against in their daily grind. Ordinary citizens seemed to be saying life can be lived in peace and harmony,… Read More »
The late 70s were unforgettable years for me being a party lover. There was never a weekend void of Filipino parties in the Greater Toronto area. In homes, recreation rooms, banquet halls, church halls and expensive hotels, we were full of fun. Now, we still keep going. Will we ever stop? Most of these parties were held by… Read More »
Part I. A Turning Point in History, A Source of Canada’s Pride Why this topic at this time? What prompted me back to this topic was the news my granddaughter, Kailani, shared at a recent family gathering. She was elected as representative of their Grade 7 Class to their school’s Human Rights Team. Not only was it pleasing… Read More »
THEN AND NOW: Canadian Immigrants then are so vastly different from Immigrants now. Who they were, where from and why they came to Canada tell a different story. To tell it short, one is compelled to generalize from specifics. And this needs cold searching questions. The recent Canadian policy to “dump and refund” thousands of immigration applicants is… Read More »