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hey are called the heroes without cape! They are part of the first line of defense against the invisible foe that the whole world is still battling against. They keep us Tsafe, well and fed at home while they are just a thin mask away from potentially risking their lives to COVID-19. The whole world recognize the contributions of essential workers in the health and social care; food production and distribution supply chain; sales and delivery; public safety and national security; education and childcare; transport; local and national government; ARE YOU LOOKING FOR A RELOCATION OPPORTUNITY? utilities, communication and key financial services; and key public services such as journalists, religious and charity staff; and all workers on the frontline amid this pandemic. WE ARE HIRING FOR OUR In this issue of the Filipino Journal, through the initiatives of 204 Filipino Marketplace and friends and loved ones of our frontliners who proudly submitted photos and NORTHERN & NORTHMART STORES offered accolades to honour their work and sacrifice to the nation, WE SALUTE YOU FRONTLINERS! You are the true heroes of today! Seeking Supervisors, Department Managers & Store Managers We offer relocation, housing and food allowances for successful candidates To apply or for more details visit www.careers.northwest.ca

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‘GOT’ actor thanks Medical City staff DOH denies forbidding An actor from the popular HBO series “Game of Thrones” has extended Angel Locsin from gratitude and recognition through a short video message to the frontline donating misting tents healthcare workers and support staff at The Medical City in Pasig. Miltos Yerolemou is best known among fans as Arya Stark’s sword- fighting mentor in the show’s first season, Miltos started the video by greeting the health workers at the Ortigas branch of the hospital, where his friend’s father was confined up to demise due to COVID-19. He highlighted the contributions of seven doctors and “Huwag po kayong susuko. Bayani po kayong lahat. Maraming, their support staff even opting to thank maraming salamat po.” (Don’t give up. You are all heroes. Thank them in Filipino. you very, very much). Howie Severino shares COVID-19 ordeal GMA reporter Howie Severino shared his story as a COVID-19 survivor in an essay titled “I am Patient 2828” published on GMA News Online. As a survivor, Severino said he The Department of Health (DOH) still there. Health workers wearing has the responsibility to talk about is not barring Angel Locsin from personal protective equipment are his experience to the public so people donating misting tents as reported allowed to pass through misting tents. would understand it and lessen their in some media outlets. However DOH does not recommend fear. The veteran broadcast journalist DOH Undersecretary Maria misting or spraying the general also said that the virus is not a death Rosario Vergeire said the Philippine public for disinfection. Vergeire sentence and the odds of survival are General Hospital (PGH) is still thanked Locsin and emphasized pretty good. He shared that one of the using the misting tents donated by that the actress has been following best things anyone can do to a friend or the actress. The misting tents for the DOH protocol when it comes family member who has COVID-19 is He also thanked the frontliners whom he said as true heroes, for the public were removed, but the to donations. to stay in touch with the patient online. assisting him and the other COVID-19 patients. tents for the health care workers are

DFA records 31.6% spike on COVID-19 cases Duterte seeks Asean among Filipinos overseas regional cooperation in fight The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Tuesday recorded a 31.6 against COVID-19 percent increase in the number of overseas Filipinos with confirmed coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases compared to last week’s figures. As of April 14, 2020 the DFA reported that there are 704 affected Filipinos abroad including 44 new cases, 22 new recoveries and four reported deaths in the Americas and Europe. A total of 400 Filipinos with confirmed COVID-19 cases are undergoing treatment, 216 have either recovered or discharged from the hospital, while 88 have died. and agencies in ensuring proper to attend to the needs of Filipinos The DFA assured it will continue implementation of preventive measures abroad through the country’s various to partner with health authorities and restrictions in its commitment embassies and consulates worldwide. No final decision yet on President Rodrigo Duterte has called cure for the dreaded disease is finally for greater cooperation among found. The President also proposed school opening - DepEd the 10-member Association of the setting up of a regional reserve Education Secretary Leonor Briones either August or September. Briones Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) for medical supplies as well as rice on April 8 Wednesday said that there however cautioned that moving the in the fight against the coronavirus supply amid the coronavirus pandemic. is no final decision yet on the school school opening to August or September disease (COVID-19). He has likewise proposed the crafting opening. will include the months of April and During the special Association of post-pandemic recovery plan, that Briones said the agency is still May in the school calendar, when the said that delaying the start of the next of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) involves jumpstarting economic conducting consultation with DepEd warmest temperatures in the country school year would enable concerned Summit with dialogue partners China, growth and helping marginalized people and other concerned sectors. are recorded. She also noted how authorities to decontaminate schools Japan and South Korea on Tuesday, sectors. He also thanked ASEAN’s Earlier, the ACT-CIS Party-list proposed certain local events, activities, and and other facilities that are being Duterte has called for fair and easy dialogue partners for their timely to synchronize the opening of the school holidays cannot be easily adjusted. used as COVID-19 isolation areas access to vaccines and treatments and generous assistance in the time year across all levels, moving it to The ACT-CIS Party-list also or centers. for all countries in the event the of great need.

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WINNIPEG, April 15, 2020 - More any of the three Winnipeg locations. helped frontline workers manage the support paid for communications are seeing the immediate impact of than 550 meals were provided last Earls Restaurants adheres to unique stresses of working in health equipment and service to help HSC philanthropy, and we are seeing the night to Health Sciences Centre best practices in food preparation care in these days of COVID-19. patients stay in touch with their compassionate spirit of Manitobans.” frontline personnel finishing their to ensure that all meals are safely “Our donors have responded loved ones while visitor restrictions shifts. They lined up—two metres handled from beginning to end. very favourably to everything we are in place. Donations to the HSC Foundation apart—to enjoy a complimentary The individually packaged meals have been doing and we are very “This crisis is bringing out the COVID-19 Crisis Response Fund meal from Earls Kitchen + Bar, are delivered to a parkade near the grateful. But given the unpredictable best in Manitobans,” said Lyon. can be made online at hscfoundation. paid for by donors to the HSC hospital where staff can claim a meal nature of this pandemic, we need “People have been generous, they mb.ca or by phone at (204) 515-5612 Foundation. by presenting HSC identification. to do even more as a community to care, and they want to do more. We or toll-free at 1-800-679-8493. Dinner will be served again this For additional safety, the meals support our frontline heroes,” said Friday night. The HSC Foundation are only available for staff leaving Lyon. “Food and hotel rooms have is asking donors to step forward the hospital at the end of the shift. been identified by HSC leadership as with financial support to extend “This is an important example important needs. Others needs will the Feeding the Frontlines program of how individuals and businesses emerge as the pandemic intensifies.” for the foreseeable future, and to can show their support,” said Lyon. Thanks to donor support of the expand the program to more nights Along with the new Feeding HSC Foundation COVID-19 Crisis per week. the Frontlines program, the HSC Response Fund, the Foundation “Our goal is to rally the Foundation COVID-19 Crisis has already been able to fund the community in support of the health Response Fund has been making research and development work care professionals serving Manitobans hotel rooms available for frontline behind the production of a mould on the frontlines at HSC. We want health care workers who need to rest for a made-in-Manitoba protective to thank them, and we need to take and wash between shifts or before mask, designed by HSC plastic care of them. By providing meals, going home. This initiative, launched surgeon Dr. Christian Petropolis. And our community is acting to nurture, in partnership with Canad Inns, has in the Fund’s earliest days, donor nourish, and express gratitude,” said Jonathon Lyon, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Health Sciences Centre Foundation. “We are so grateful that Earls approached us with this outstanding idea and an offer to provide meals at their cost so we could provide them for free to our heroes at HSC. We also thank McNaught Cadillac Buick GMC for providing a van to deliver the meals to us.” As an additional show of support, Earls is making it easy for customers to donate to the HSC Foundation COVID-19 Crisis Response Fund when they order food online from HSC Frontline workers line up to receive meals HSC workers receiving meals

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Coincidentally, the theme for Earth Day 2020 is climate action. I would really like to encourage you to take action and celebrate Earth Becoming Ecoist Day beyond this month and into the rest of the year. By Jomay Amora-Dueck [email protected] Here are 5 ways to celebrate earth day at home – during and after the pandemic: id you know that Earth Day areas and wildlife habitats is linked 1. SPEAK UP FROM HOME is April 22nd of every year? to the spread of infectious diseases. Create your own window sign or social April 22, 2020 will mark 50 While the virus was certainly media posts and include #EARTHRISE, D #EarthDay2020, or earthday.org on it. years of Earth Day. not engineered in a laboratory, this Earth Day was a unified response doesn't mean humans haven't played a Earthday.org has a few sample digital to an environment in crisis — oil role in the current pandemic. Reports materials that you can use. spills, smog, rivers so polluted they show that human impingement on Photo credit: earthday.org literally caught fire. natural habitats, biodiversity loss and Or you can create your own campaign slogans. My favorite slogans that are On April 22, 1970, around 20 ecosystem degradation are making virus Pollinators are critically important Send a letter to businesses asking that widely-used everywhere are: million Americans took to the streets spillover events much more likely. to our global food production and they implement more eco-friendly “The climate’s changing; why aren’t to protest the negative impacts of According to a study conducted nutritional security. Without pollinators, practices. Ask them to remove plastic we?” industrial development and collectively by The Royal Society, the number of many of the foods we depend on and Styrofoam from their packaging. “Don’t be a fossil fool!” launched the modern environmental emerging infectious disease outbreaks would become scarce, putting life You can also encourage them to start “Let’s rise up before the seas do.” movement that is now being recognized has more than tripled every decade on our planet at risk. Join earthday. composting programs at work. More “Less plastic would be fantastic!” as the planet’s largest civic event. since the 1980s. More than two org in helping protect pollinators by importantly, support companies that Our planet provides us with thirds of these diseases originate pledging to stop your use of pesticides. give back to your community and 2. FIGHT CLIMATE CHANGE everything we need – food, shelter, in animals, and about 70% of those Go to their website and pledge your focus on sustainability. clothing, water, air. It does makes sense come from wild animals. Many of WITH DIET CHANGE support. Did you know that our food choices to show gratitude and appreciation to the infectious diseases we're familiar On Wednesday, April 22nd, join have a significant impact not only the planet that nourishes us, right? with — Ebola, HIV, swine and avian 4. USE THE EARTH CHALLENGE millions around the world to stand on our health but on the planet? It's a no-brainer. We all know flu — are zoonotic. 2020 APP up for the planet. it is important to protect our natural By disrupting ecosystems, we Coronavirus, and other viruses and This app, which is available on bacteria, mostly come from farmed resources because we need them to have created the conditions that allow Android and iOS devices, allows you Can Mother Nature count on you? live. We need clean air to breathe, animal viruses to cross over into human and wild animals. Committing to to gather critical environmental data reducing your meat consumption and clean water to drink. populations. Would you agree then near you. It has two elements for you ------can greatly improve our health and But when we destroy nature and that we – humans – are responsible to measure — air quality and plastic Jomay Amora-Dueck is the creator of reduce carbon footprint. And please, pollute the environment, we destroy for this COVID-19 pandemic, and are pollution — with more on the way. theecoistcollective.com and author don’t waste your food. and pollute ourselves as well. making our own death note? Try it, it’s cool! of Becoming Ecoist: A Beginner’s Case in point: COVID-19 outbreak. We don’t know how long this Guide to Minimalist and Sustainable 3. CHOOSE POLLEN OVER COVID-19 is the latest example pandemic would last, but I believe 5. CHAT WITH YOUR FAVOURITE Living. Download your FREE copy PESTICIDES of how human impact on biodiverse that we still have time to act. LOCAL BUSINESSES at theecoistcollective.com. Two Winnipeg Students initiate fundraiser for COVID-19 affected kababayans in the Philippines Filipino-Canadian students in today, there is still an opportunity Northeast Philippines, all proceeds Winnipeg, Jinalyn Dineros and for each one of us to help those will go towards providing grocery Kristine Jimenez, initiated the who are in need," Dineros and packages (rice, canned goods, noodles) Bayanihan Spirit, a fundraiser that Jimenez said. and sanitation kits (alcohol, soap, aims to help kababayans in the To help alleviate the struggles handwashing guide from WHO) for Philippines affected by the situation of kababayans in the Philippines this 100 families in Barangays 193 and brought upon by COVID-19. "With time, Dineros and Jimenez are calling 197 located in Pasay City, Metro our fellow Filipinos in mind, we for donations to provide emergency Manila, Philippines. started The Bayanihan Spirit with aid and disaster relief for communities The first phase of the collection the intention of paying it forward. affected by COVID-19. With the is from April 8 - April 22, 2020, Despite the chaos, we are all sharing help of the Rotary Club of Makati which aims to collect $520, enough to help 100 families. "We want to help out as many families and communities as we can, so we are reaching out to all of you to ask for your help in spreading the word." We do understand that not everyone has money and time to spare especially during this difficult time, so please know that any amount goes a long way and even sharing would make all the difference," the organizers said. Dineros and Jimenez wish to thank the Filipino community in Winnipeg, "Even though The Bayanihan Spirit is a small-scale fundraising initiative, the sheer goodness of the Filipino Community in Winnipeg has been overwhelming! We are definitely grateful for everyone who is supporting our initiative." To those who want to donate, please refer to the Call for Donations poster. Photo courtesy: Kristine Jimenez and Jinalyn Dinero

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The opportunity could bring you to splurge and enjoy yourself. Invite friends, provide good food, and have a ball. On You have golden opportunity to expose your skills and show You think that you need more fun in your life. You Whenever influences in your chart show just how busy and focused another note, you may continue to be busy on the work the world what you can do. If you can use technology to help deserve it, too. Go for something comfortable, yummy, you've been lately, you can benefit from giving yourself some space. front, which could put a lot of pressure on you. You may get your message out to the right people, you could do very and soothing to the inner child. It does not have to be a When it comes to talking about business matters and being productive, be accepting conditions or demands that aren't in your well. You often excel at design work or anything else with lullaby. Look forward to an energetic private life. Despite be sure to inquire about details and read the fine print. Don't leave best interests. If so, discuss such issues with someone an artistic or creative bias. It's also possible that you could be the improved quiet time and loneliness, more people may anything to chance or you could lose out. Finally, romance could be who can help you and provide relief. Leisure options also made aware of a talent you're not using to the fullest. join your circle of trusted intimates, not all at the same in the air, with a special date proving very enjoyable. wave and can prove health-giving. time, of course.

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