[GTranslate]TORONTO – Confusion? Having admitted that much about government policies in respect of what should be opened and what should be closed during this pandemic, we should note the contagion of that illogic. There is plenty to go around. →
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Transcript of Video – Summary of Joe Volpe’s Article –
“Your eminence, a lot of things do not make sense”, by the Honourable Joe Volpe, brings to light the disparity between the rights afforded religious institutions and commercial enterprises in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. The Church has protested feebly to the severe restrictions, while big box stores, supported by the Provincial Cabinet, have been vociferous and unrelenting. The result is that, while large chain stores and outlet malls are now permitted to be open, even crowded, churches and mausoleums remain virtually shuttered. Volpe laments the Cardinal’s inaction, as seen also in recent events surrounding Catholic education in the Archdiocese of Toronto.
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Isang kamaganak lumapit sa akin at sinabi na siya ay sinabihan nang amo niya na siya ay “re-trenched.” Itong salitang Ito’y parang malalim ang ibig sabihin. Ang unang pumasok sa isipan ko ay noon unang digmaan na ang mga sundalo ay nasa mga trench, na may maduming tubig, putik, mga hayup na gaga, mga sundalo na may tama nang baril o sugatan, na ang paa ay namamaga. Kaya ang salitang trench ay parang magulong at mahirap na digmaan. Walang nag sabi na madali ang trabaho. May oras na maraming mo ang trabaho sa isang digmaan. →
Someone close to me made an announcement the other day: “I’ve been retrenched”. There is something about this word that gets to me. Root word: trench. Like trench warfare, World War I. Fighting in the trenches, all that mud, dirty water, rats, gangrene. And to be “re-trenched” sounds like you have to go through with it all over again. Nobody ever said work is easy. At times, you really are waging a war. →
Letter to the Corriere Canadese by Ian Duncan MacDonald
ENGLISH VERSION: https://www.corriere.ca/columbus-centre/convert-the-entire-operation-over-a-member-owned-not-for-profit-corporation/
Ieri ho inviato una e-mail a quello che pensavo fosse ancora un direttore del Columbus Centre. Si è scoperto che si era dimesso di recente. Ho seguito una telefonata che mi ha rivelato che le cose sono peggiori al Columbus Centre di quello che pensavo potessero essere.
Sembra che l’unica operazione che fa soldi siano gli appartamenti degli anziani. Tutte le operazioni sono ora controllate direttamente dal consiglio di Amministrazione di Villa Charities ad eccezione della struttura atletica (che ha bisogno di centinaia di dollari, se non milioni, per renderla commercializzabile) e della scuola di danza che sono entrambe controllate indirettamente.
[GTranslate]TORONTO – The initial shock soon was replaced by anger. The photograph of Long Term Care Homes that emerges from a CBC News investigation is shocking. Not only are anti-contagion security protocols broken in these facilities while the Covid-19 pandemic is underway, but LTCs found red-handed are not punished for their behaviour. As they say in Italian, after the “pulling of ears”, everything ends up in “tarallucci and wine”. It’s a fact. Inspections of Ontario’s Long Term Care Homes almost never have consequences. Homes are asked to solve the problem, but even if an inspector returns and finds the same problem, there are no fines or penalties. In very rare cases, houses are forbidden to accept new residents. →
Three years before I immigrated to Canada, then PM Pierre Trudeau announced that Canada would adopt multicultural policies to address systemic racial and cultural discrimination. This was unanimously supported in parliament. I look at my arrival in Toronto in 1974 as most opportune. →
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). →
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” →
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. →
Kapag hinaharap mo ang ibig sabihin nang BAYAN KO, makikita mo tunay na pagmamahal sa inang bayan. Ang katang Ito’y hindi siya ang oppissial na pambansang awit. Walang Pilipino sa buong mundo na hindi na aapektohan nitong awit na Ito. Itong awit na Ito rin ang nag bigay daan para mabawi ang kalayaan na wala noong ipatupad ang batas militar ni Marcos noon 1972. Itong katang Ito, ay siya rin nag bigay daan para labanan ang puwersa nang happon noong ikalawang digmaan pang mundo. →
