Is Pacquiao win guaranteed?
pinay in death row
Running priest leads BasuRun
Now that the stage has set for the fight
of the century, people are gauging the
certainty of Manny Pacquiao victory
at the expense of undefeated Floyd
Mayweather.
Indonesia is preparing to move
a Filipina death row inmate to
execution following the Indonesian
Supreme Court’s rejection of her
appeal for a judicial review of her
case.
As the illegal Canadian toxic wastes
continue to rot in the Port of Manila for
over 600 days now, running priest Father
Robert Reyes joined the call for Canada to
immediately re-export the illegal shipment.
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Couple, baby survive
Coquihalla mishap
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Anti-terror bill
spawns massive
anti-Tory backlash
By Yul Baritugo
A huge Canada-wide opposition to a
deceptively packaged Conservative antiterror bill that suppresses Charter rights
including freedom of the press -- and
even outright freedom of thought as a
valid expression of dissent -- is expected
to transform itself into a rabid antiConservative movement nationwide in the
coming days.
Amendments to the Immigration and
Refugee Act appear to allow the use of
evidence obtained by torture,” Green Party
leader Elizabeth May revealed.
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3,670 Filipino workers
to be sent home
By Emmy Buccat
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Esteras van lay along a ditch on Coquihalla highway. No one was injured.
By Alex Mino
In the af termath of an intimate
celebration marking the 7th year of their
union, a common highway mishap almost
ended in tragedy for a Filipino-Canadian
couple.
But it would seem angels were on hand
to save them.
Earlier, Brian and Michelle Esteras
together with their two-month old baby
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Shiloh set out on a road trip to celebrate
the couple’s wedding anniversary in Vernon.
They were actually on their way to Vernon
when forces of nature suddenly struck in a
treacherous stretch of Coquihalla highway.
The weather report said it will be dry and
normal travel was expected. It was not.
The couple planned to spend the
weekend in Sparkling Hills to mark a
milestone in their union. Shiloh cemented
their marriage.
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Travelling at 90 kilometers per hour,
Brian, dad to two-month old Shiloh,
lost traction in the slow lane due to an
unexpected blizzard which he didn’t
anticipate as the weather report suggests
it would be a dry and sunny day.
Thinking that the anti-lock brake will
assist him to come to full stop, Brian tried
to step hard on the brake pedal to no avail
as their situation went from bad to worst.
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Starting today, the rule that placed a
limit of four years on temporary foreign
workers to remain in Canada officially takes
effect.
An estimated first batch of 3,670 Filipino
temporary foreign workers (TFWs) who
entered Canada in 2011 under the lowskilled job category may have to go home
unless they secure a one year bridge permit
as informally proposed for those in Alberta
or avail of other immigration streams that
will allow them to legally stay, the Philippine
Consulate in Vancouver revealed.
Under the amendment to the temporary
foreign worker (TFW) program, workers
contracts can only last four years. They
must be repatriated to their home countries
and stay there for four years before they
become eligible to re-apply under the same
category.
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