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In celebration of National Heritage Month last May, the Philippine Heritage Society held the “Tertulia Flores de Mayo: A Celebration of Fashion, Arts & Music” at Casa Blanca, Intramuros last May 30 with the support of Manila Hotel and the Intramuros Administration. Tertulia is a Spanish word for social gathering. …

The building of a multiplex is not a budget-friendly undertaking in Toronto and that raises questions about how the people building them will finance their construction.  City favours seeing more multiplexes, but no municipal, provincial incentive money for building them. Are multiplexes the answer to Toronto’s housing crisis? Toronto city …

Some 1.9 million Canadians owed the federal government a total of $23.5 billion in student loans as of July 2022 — a number that only balloons further when including provincial loans and private debt. Meanwhile, tuition fees are now 13 times more than they were 50 years ago.  Expert says …

Volunteer firefighters were the first to arrive at a deadly crash in southwestern Manitoba on Thursday, but officials say their numbers have been dwindling since 2016.  Emergency response would have taken longer if not for volunteer firefighters: Manitoba Fire Chiefs Association. When 15 people died in a fatal crash on …

Canadian Blood Services is making an urgent call for blood and plasma donors this week as thousands of appointments sit unfilled. The national organization says it has 150,000 appointments to fill in order to tackle a dwindling inventory of blood and plasma, including many appointments in the Greater Toronto Area. …

Make that two golds for Filipino Olympic gymnast Carlos Yulo. Yulo captured the vault gold medal in the Men’s Senior Artistic Gymnastics Asian Championships at the OCBC Hall in Singapore on Sunday, June 18. The 4-foot-11 gymnast scored 14.299 points to top the event to double his gold haul. He …

According to the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre, there are hundreds of firefighters from around the world deployed across Canada.  Hundreds of firefighters from overseas have pitched in. Andrew Stewart said his first glimpse of a Canadian wildfire left quite the impression. The firefighter from the South Australian Country Fire …

While buying beauty products is common among Filipinos regardless of age or sex, there was a time when a large part of the market was unaware that protecting the skin against sun damage is equally, if not more, important in nurturing healthy skin and achieving a youthful glow. Brand founder …

When Peter Kirkegaard was violently ill for days recently and doctors couldn’t figure out what was wrong with him, his wife urged them to perform a CT scan. The results showed a tiny wire bristle from a barbecue brush lodged in his small intestine.  Peter Kirkegaard, 60, is urging others …

In the corner of a classroom lined with chairs and a buffet table, Afroditi Marinakis fiddles with the tassel on her graduation cap. “Do you know if the point is supposed to be in front?” she asks, adjusting the fit. After nearly 10 years of off-and-on study to earn her …