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PHILIPPINE ASIAN NEWS TODAY April 1 - 15, 2018
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Chloe Almendarez
Birthday: April 6, 2000
What are your talents: dancing
Hobbies: dancing, hanging out with friends,
collecting memories like polaroid pictures
Biggest Influence: God
Favorite Actors: Jennifer Anniston, Candace Cameron Bure
Favorite Vocalists: Audrey Assad, Rex Orange County
Favorite Quote: Do not be anxious about anything, but in every
situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your
requests to God. Philippians 8:6
A Proposal for the Conduct of Youth
Forum and Consultation with the Filipino
Community in Canada
Canada is a nation of immigrants. For
Table 3: Registered Filipino Emigrants to Canada by Province of Destination 2005-2015
Province/
Terriory
2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 Total
1,735 1,656 2,027 2,495 3,218 5,532 5,841 7,449 5,596 6,106 9,423 51,078
British
Columbia 3,263 2,620 2,912 3,487 3,411 4,940 3,951 3,543 2,478 2,972 5,370 38,947
Labrador 3 1 1 2 4 3 9 24
Manitoba 1,684 2,535 3,104 2,531 4,180 5,673 5,854 3,568 3,637 4,449 3,346 40,561
New
Brunswick 11 17 51 33 22 30 53 53 89 155 169 683
Alberta
New
Foundland
1
1 6 3 12 5 16 47 49 79 107 189 514
48 80 129 58 34 112 152 139 116 200 237 1,305
18 16 25 31 15 35 24 64 38 58 96 420
2 5 24 1 1 5 3 4 15 60
6,250 5,545 5,215 5,930 5,942 7,754 6,875 4,053 5,089 11,338 70,417
6 8 17 4 20 4 23 74 77 28 261
406 601 436 790 987 843 554 595 617 561 961 7,351
100 139 641 1,026 2,097 2,218 2,756 2,356 2,149 2,583 2,440 18,505
Yukon
Territory 5 5 7 7 39 127 87 87 106 111 74 655
Did Not
Specify 74 2 8 2 11 2 4 5 108
Total
Canada 13,598 13,230 14,572 16,443 19,967 19,041 22,479 33,700 230,889
Nova Scotia
Northwest
Territory
Nunavut
Ontario
P. Edward
Island
Quebec
Saskatchew
an
27,302
26,203
6,426
24,354
UGNAYAN SA CANADA
Filipino permanent migrants, it is the sec-
ond preferred major destination country
(next to United States of America) mainly
because of its extensive economic oppor-
tunities and inclusive social services based
on the latest reports of the Department of
Foreign Affairs and the Commission on
Filipinos Overseas. It is also ranked #9
in the UN’s 2015 Annual Human Devel-
opment Index (HDI), out of nearly 200
countries, making it an ideal country to
live in. Canada offers great promise to a
wide variety of Filipino jobseekers who in
time eventually earn the right to live on its
land as citizens. Since it is a vast coun-
try, 33 times the size of the Philippines
with lesser population, Canada’s need for
extra manpower and immigrants is more
pronounced than other countries.
According to the 2016 Census of Can-
ada Population Report, there are 837,130
Table 1. Concentration of Filipinos by Cities in Canada
City
Number of
% National Share
Filipinos
of Filipinos
Toronto
246,340
37.2
Vancouver
99,675
15%
Winnipeg
58,535
8.8
Calgary
52,645
7.9
Edmonton
42,760
6.5
Montreal
32,740
4.9
Ottawa-Gatineau
11,905
1.8
Source: Philippine Embassy, Ottawa
Table 3: Registered Filipino Emigrants to Canada by Province of Destination 2005-2015
Source: CFO
For the last ten years, the top 5 major
destination provinces of Filipinos in
Canada are Ontario, Alberta, Manitoba,
British Colombia, and Saskatchewan.
The Ugnayan sa Canada Youth
Forum and Consultation aims to:
a. Identify issues and challenges
of Filipino-Canadian youth; and
engage them on how to be partners of
Philippine development
b Strengthen
relations/
partnership
with
the
Filipino
communities and support network
groups (for referral to Filipino emigrants
who undergo pre-departure services at
CFO)
c. Inform the participants of
the various government programs
and services for migrants - Diaspora
Engagement to Development - CFO’s
Filipinos (based on ethnicity) working
and living in Canada. The Filipino popu-
lation represents 2% of the 35,151,728
total population in Canada. In just a few
decades, Filipino community has grown
from less than a thousand residents to
become one of the country’s largest im-
migrant demographics. Filipinos rep-
resent the fourth largest visible minority
group in Canada at 10.6% of the minority
population of 6,264,800. Statistics Can-
ada place “South Asians” as the largest
group at 25%, followed by “Chinese” at
21 % and “Blacks” at 15 %.
In terms of concentration by cities,
most Filipinos in Canada (67.1%) are
found in the cities of Toronto, Edmonton,
Calgary, Vancouver, Winnipeg, Montreal,
and the Ottawa-Gatineau Capital Region.
Their distribution are as follows:
BaLinkBayan One-Stop Web Portal for
Overseas Filipinos and Other Projects
to Engage OFs in the Development
Initiative in the Home Country, Centro
Rizal, among others.
Proposed Partners in the Conduct
of Ugnayan
1. Department of Foreign Affairs/
Philippine Embassy in Ottawa, Philippine
Consulate Generals in Toronto, Calgary,
and Vancouver, Philippine Overseas
Labor Office
2. National Commission for
Culture and the Arts
3. Multicultural Helping House
Society in Vancouver/ Pathways to
Canada
4. Filipino
organizations
in
Canada
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