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Alam Mo Ba Na…?
In 1968, the first wave of Filipino garment workers arrived in Winnipeg. (www.pccm.ca) Winnipeg’s Portage Avenue at Main Street is the windiest corner of Canada. (Winnipeg Free Press, October 8, 2010) Former NBA player
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Alam Mo Ba Na…?
• The first Filipino immigrants arrived in Winnipeg in 1959 (www.pccm.ca). • To help prevent tooth decay, Winnipeg’s drinking water has fluoride content (www.winnipeg.ca). • Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson is named after an illustrious
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Alam Mo Ba Na…?
• Conrad Santos is the first Filipino-Canadian elected to Manitoba Legislature in 1981 and the first Filipino-Canadian to run for Leadership of the NDP in 1989 (www.mhs.mb.ca). • Maria Aragon is the “Winnipeg Entertainer
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Alam Mo Ba Na…?
The First Filipino Elected to Canadian Government: Rey Pagtakhan is the first Filipino-Canadian elected to the House of Commons, the first Filipino-Canadian to be appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister (Jean Chrétien), and
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Pacquiao Ekes Out Majority Decision
by Adonis Fernandez In what many in the boxing community initially believed to be a mismatch between the “pound-for-pound king” Manny Pacquiao and the lightweight kingpin Juan Manuel Marquez, Pacquiao barely managed to win
Read More »Don’t English Me, I’m Panic!
by Adonis Fernandez I am a new immigrant. I am from the Philippines where Filipino (Tagalog) is the household language and where English is used occasionally as a language in office and school settings.
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