Public attitudes towards Covid-19 vaccines around the world

[GTranslate]TORONTO – Given the importance of achieving high vaccine coverage to mitigate the impacts of Covid-19, the effectiveness to do so will depend on the number of people willing to get vaccinated. So far, the numbers do not seem overwhelming.

People’s attitudes towards vaccines vary based on a number of factors including their concerns, their values and their lifestyles. GWI (GlobalWebIndex), a company providing market research and insight to agencies around the world, collected research data from various countries to gauge public perception towards the Covid-19 vaccine. Continue reading→

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LOOKING BACK…COVERAGE OF G8 – G 20 IN TORONTO 2010

Given the history of violence that accompanies these summits, most locals, i.e., Torontonians living in the downtown core opted to leave the city or stay in their domiciles.  I preferred to be in the thick of things when such a magnitude of an event is taking place in my neck of the woods.  With my Manila Times ID, I trekked to the (CNE) Canadian National Exhibition grounds, where the journalists were getting accredited with the mindset that if people from far away places like China, India and South Africa are able to travel here to cover the events, why not me who lives right in the heart of Toronto. When I arrived at the CNE, I presented myself as a foreign correspondent for The Manila Times.  I encountered some resistance at first but after explaining in the interview that I had been to the White House and Parliament Hill, Asia Pacific Conference (APEC) to cover big events involving world leaders and that I was a governor council appointee, I was cleared by the CSIS and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). Continue reading→

MATAAS NA HUKUMAN NG KANADA UTOS SA KAPULISSAN.

Nakalipas na G8-G20 Toronto 2010

Dahil sa mga nakalipas na magulong storia nang pag pupulong nang G8-G20, maraming tao na nakatira sa sioyoda nang Toronto nag alisan, at ang iba nag kulong sa kani kanilang bahay. Ako’y naiiba dahil hindi ko mapapalagpas ang bihirang pag kakataon na Ito. Kung ang mga taga ibang bansa malalayo katulad nang Tsina, Indiya, at Afrika ay nakaka dayo nang malayo, wala akong makita ng dahilan kung bakit lugar ko Ito at hindi ako makadalo. Dali dali akong nag punta sa “CNE” para kumuha nang permiso para makadalo. Noong una, pinahihirapan ako sa mga tanong na mahirap sagutin. Matapos ang masusing pag susurin, nakita na ako karapatdapat, binigyan ako nang karapat dapat dumalo nang “RCMP-CSIS” Continue reading→

Update of the Covid-19 Landscape


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[GTranslate]Here we provide a daily update of the data available for select countries and jurisdictions as of March 2, 2021, at 3:00pm (EST).

Globally, there have been over 114 million confirmed cases of Covid-19 according to Johns Hopkins University data.  Since the start of the pandemic, over 90 million people have recovered and more than 2.5 million fatalities were attributable to the virus.

PHILIPPINES DESERVE BETTER THAN THIS….

When you Google “Bayan Ko”, you’ll see words like Nuestra Patria (Our Country), patriotic, unofficial national anthem and seditious.

No Filipino living in any part of this planet can claim to be unaffected by this song. Bayan Ko became the rallying song after the 1983 assassination of a Marcos opponent, Benigno Aquino, and gained traction during the People Power Revolt of 1986. It’s a song that expresses opposition to anything that curtails Filipino freedom, be it a foreign power governing the Philippines or the imposition of martial law, as was the case during the presidency of Ferdinand Marcos when he declared this in 1972. Continue reading→