We’re Hiring!

Interested in working with an industry leader in tile and stone?Interested in working with one of Canada’s best managed companies? We’re interested in people that are! We currently have vacancies for two (2) Material Handler positions in ourDistribution Centre located at 8300 Huntington Road, Woodbridge, ON MATERIAL HANDLERS1 day shift position from 7:00 am to 3:00 pm1 afternoon… Read More »

Remembering Ruben on All Souls Day

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 »

Why We Keep Our Little Life’s Possessions?

In some nook and cranny of our home, we find those few prized possessions we’ve been keeping through the years. These are the little things we have that we could not quickly get rid of, but at times, they have become our comfort zones. Every time we see and touch these possessions—old books, photos, letters, cards, children’s and… Read More »

BIO-TECHNOLOGICAL (R)EVOLUTION

PART  II Ten thousand years ago, there was no such thing as corn, just a wild grassy plant called Teosinte.  Farmers started domesticating it by selecting seeds for planting.  Maize, as it was later called, then had an ear ( cob) 2 cm long with eight rows of kernels. From that lowly start, the corn has steadily transformed… Read More »

The Mountain of Hope

There it is looking high and mighty, the mountain of hope for the poorest and neglected people of the country. Its beauty lies underneath. The early morning start of garbage trucks dumping the thrashes of the well-off is sweet music and not an irritant for those eking a living for the non-stop pile-ups. It means there is work… Read More »

REMEMBERING BIANCA

As millions of Filipinos celebrate November 1,  All Saints Day, by honoring and remembering their loved ones who have passed on, I am reminded, in a moving and heartfelt way, of how a loving mother’s deep and boundless love for her daughter, who has passed on (in the prime of her life). She has kept her memory and… Read More »

Undas Na Naman

“Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.” (First line of Desiderata, Max Ehrmann)  ***** When the phone rings and an annoying caller ID reads Unknown Name, Private Name and anything of that sort, the call will definitely deserve a “no reply” and, sometimes, two unprintable words. I respect the… Read More »

Time To Start Electronic Recycling

According to the United Nations, around 50 million metric tons of electronic products are discarded every year. This weight is nearly equivalent to over 4,000 Eiffel towers. Electronic waste or E-waste is considered as the world’s fastest growing waste stream and the amount is expected to increase by over 1.1 million metric tons unless the trend is reversed.… Read More »

The Sound of Two Js

 2 hours before Jaya and Jay-R’s concert last Saturday (Oct 22) at TD Pavilion, I did not have a ticket yet.  But radio personality Ryan Orlanda who’s identified with singing celebs called me, “You have 2 tickets from me!  Ikaw pa!” So I went!  The last time I watched Jaya was 2017 here in Toronto, when she came… Read More »