by Teresa Torralba One of the world’s most photographed natural landmarks was the site of a historic event in the Filipino Canadian community which took place on a drizzling Sunday afternoon of October 2023. The monument of the Philippine’s national hero, Dr. Jose Rizal, will soon rise. It is to be nestled in the resplendent Niagara Parks overlooking… 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 eight 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 »
On July 5th, Mark Zuckerberg launched the Twitter (now ‘X’) clone Threads seemingly as a stab at X/Twitter’s new owner and his nemesis Elon Musk. I can only surmise Zuckerberg saw X/Twitter as a “sinking ship” that he could take advantage of. Backstory: 15 years ago, Zuckerberg wanted X/Twitter. Apparently, he tried purchasing the bird app several times.… Read More »
Throwing away household stuff is a norm in our society; those things we slightly used before and some old stuff we’ve kept for years now we want to get rid of are usually found in garbage dumping areas or thrown in the streets. In North America, people sometimes keep buying goods at whims, and later, they replace them… Read More »
Ni Edwin Esteba Magaan sa damdamin ang makatulong ka Kahit sino pa sila kahit hindi mo kilala Dahil sabi nila kabutihan din ang ibabalik nila Pero hindi pala totoo, akala lamang pala Sa bawat pagtulong ko hindi ako humihingi ng kapalit Dahil hindi naman nila ako pinilit Taos sa puso ko ang magmalasakit Pero sa totoo hindi naman… Read More »
Arts and culture positively impact people and communities. It promotes cooperation and collaboration, and it helps achieve key housing, health, and neighbourhood goals. Not only the Arts creates social cohesion, but it also strengthens the social fabric and increases people’s sensitivity to different cultural practices, beliefs, and identity. Many studies and evidence have shown that arts and culture… Read More »
There are 72 gender identities. This emerging classification indicates that we are not completely beholden to the conventional two-sex ( binary ) designation. It means none of us is 100% male ( XY ) or female (XX ). One day, a blood test will determine our individual male-female ratio, a tantalizing medical breakthrough of all time! PART II… Read More »
How do you rate two lead female performers, both allies and foes, armed with fierce clawing nails ready to attack each other in a blinding glamorous colorful setting? To me it was sheer delight. I haven’t met Dolly de Leon yet (and I can’t wait to see and talk to her in person) but i’ve been with Kathryn… Read More »
“There was no choice but to sit silently while history was narrated anew, no choice but to wait in a dumbly, unenthusiastic silence for the mocking dismantling of our old stories, until later when we could whisperingly remind each other what the plunderers had tried to steal from us.” – Abdulrazak Gurnah, Gravel Heart (2017). In one of… Read More »
by Teresa Torralba One of the world’s most photographed natural landmarks was the site of a historic event in the Filipino Canadian community which took place on a drizzling Sunday afternoon of October 2023. The monument of the Philippine’s national hero, Dr. Jose Rizal, will soon rise. It is to be nestled in the resplendent Niagara Parks overlooking… Read More »