The year 2018 welcomes the publication of a new cookbook, The New Filipino Kitchen, chronicling the immigrant stories and their personally-picked recipes of Filipino chefs and food writers scattered around the globe.

The federal Liberal government is taking steps to ensure that thousands of mostly Filipino women who came to Canada as caregivers under the Live-in Caregiver Program (LCP) will be rejoined by their families at last.

Tobias Enverga Jr., the first Canadian Filipino appointed to the Senate, died on November 16, 2017. He was 61.

On October 25 this year, Statistics Canada released select figures from its 2016 Census, which deal with ethnic diversity.

The results show that immigrants from the Philippines comprised the biggest group of new arrivals who came to Canada from 2011 to 2016.

The Pacific Canada Heritage Centre (PCHC) Museum of Migration Society celebrates its fifth anniversary with an inaugural gala and first fundraising event on November 25, 6:30 p.m. at the River Rock Theatre in Richmond, B.C.

On September 27 this year, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau inaugurated the National Holocaust Monument in Ottawa.

Formed like a stylized Star of David, the memorial commemorates one of the darkest periods in human history, when six million Jews were killed by Nazi Germany during World War II.

Chicken-catching is a job catching chicken in barns for processing. It is not a glamorous job. Some call it 3-d: “dirty, dusty and dangerous”. It is night work. Not many apply for these jobs locally.

Starting with the September 2017 term, many Grade 11 and 12 classroom-based and self-paced courses are tuition-free for Graduated Adults (students who have previously graduated in BC or in another part of Canada or any other country).

Two Filipinos are among eight Asian Canadian authors featured in this year’s LiterASIAN Literary Festival to be held in various Vancouver venues from September 21 to 24.

Hundreds of thousands showed up for the 39^th annual Pride Parade in downtown Vancouver on August 6.

Among those who marched in the summer event were members of Pinoy Pride Vancouver, the first lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) group in the Canadian Filipino community in B.C.

Filipino-American author Almira Astudillo Gilles was in Vancouver recently to present her book Hotspot, Cool Country: Biodiversity in the Philippines.

Kaye Banez wears a number of hats. She’s a sales and marketing specialist, culinary instructor, and vocational coach, among others.

A 150th birthday present to immigrants from the federal Liberal government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is the passage of Bill C-6 amending the previous Harper government’s Citizenship Act of 2014, which created the two-tiered Canadian citizenship perceived by some immigrants as racist.

British Columbians gear up for change as premier-designate John Horgan and his cabinet prepare to be formally sworn in by Lt.-Gov. Judith Guichon at the Government House on July 18. Horgan’s New Democratic Party (NDP), with votes from the Andrew Weaver-led Green Party, successfully ended the 16-year B.C. Liberal rule after the May 9 provincial elections.

Most internationally educated professionals find themselves struggling to fully integrate into the Canadian labour market. The biggest road blocks include unfamiliar processes like credential evaluation, and regulatory bodies who often do not recognize internationally-trained professionals.

Over 200 immigrant and refugee youths and some “adult allies” from British Columbia and across Canada recently trooped to the Science World Theatre in Vancouver for the 2017 Fresh Voices Ceremony Awards.