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stOaTTAWrA,tSepetembder 23:, PM in address to natesttedipoositiven for the virus. 2020 -- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau "This is the time for all of us as says that in some parts of the country Canadians, to do our part for our the COVID-19 second wave has country, as government does its part already begun, but Canadians have for you," he said. the power to flatten the curve again, in Responding to Trudeau’s his evening address to the nation declaration of a second wave, CTV from his West Block office. Infectious Disease Specialist Dr. Abdu "In our four biggest provinces, Sharkawy said that he thinks we’re the second wave isn’t just starting, it’s “very much there.” already underway," said Trudeau, of “We have seen that the the current outbreaks in British numbers are rising disproportionate to Columbia, Alberta, Ontario and the number of tests that are being Quebec. "We’re on the brink of a fall done, and we've seen a consistent that could be much worse than the trend of community transmission that spring." has been uncontrolled now for some COVID-19 cases have jumped time. And it's evidenced by people in nationally, from about 300 cases per my emergency room and in my ICU,” day in mid-August to 1,248 on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau delivers his address to the nation Dr. Sharkawy said, adding that Tuesday, prompting Chief Public in the evening after the speech from the throne from his West addressing the current testing Health Officer Dr. Theresa Tam to Block office, Wednesday, September 23, 2020 (cbc news) backlogs and delays seen in some implore Canadians and public health those were already decided by what "Together, we have the power regions need to be rectified as soon as policy-makers to redouble infection we did, or didn’t do, two weeks ago. to get this second wave under control,” possible if Canada is to get this new prevention efforts now, or face a "very But what we can change is where we he said. spike in cases under control. sharp and intense peak" in new are in October, and into the winter,” Trudeau implored Canadians Trudeau's national remarks COVID-19 cases that would likely lead Trudeau said. to wear masks in public, get the flu came just a few hours after Gov. Gen. to a return of national lockdowns."I He went on to say that it’s shot this fall, and download the Julie Payette delivered the minority know this isn’t the news that any of us likely Canadians won’t be gathering for government's COVID Alert app that government’s speech from the throne wanted to hear. And we can’t change Thanksgiving, but that “we still have a notifies users when they have come today’s numbers or even tomorrow’s -- shot at Christmas." into contact with someone who has See Page 4 Second Covid 19 wave

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PGaeha Kiatlreiepna Cpabiicno (Pehilstar.cromi)s- eto 5,t09o1. Of2the9ne4w d,e5ath9s, 21 3 were September 23, 2020 - 4:54pm from virus epicenter Metro Manila, six MANILA, Philippines — The from Calabarzon and five from number of confirmed coronavirus Western Visayas. cases in the Philippines increased to Active infections stood at 294,591 Wednesday as the 58,127 Wednesday. Department of Health reported more More than 3.25 million people than 2,000 infections. have been tested for the disease in the The DOH logged 2,833 country. additional cases, of which 80% got Duterte: All nations should get infected within the last two weeks. access to COVID-19 vaccines Forty-three percent of the new In his first speech before the United cases came from Metro Manila Nations General Assembly, President (1,222), followed by Cavite (228), Rodrigo Duterte described the Negros Occidental (206), Batangas coronavirus pandemic as the “biggest (143) and Bulacan (141). test to the world and the United The Philippines still has the Nations faced since World War II.” President Rodrigo Duterte virtually addresses the general debate of the most number of COVID-19 cases in “The invisible enemy that is 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly, on September Southeast Asia despite enforcing one COVID-19 has brought about an 22, 2020, in New York. Presidential Communications/Screengrab of the world’s longest and strictest unfamiliar global landscape and “When the world finds that a COVID-19 vaccine. coronavirus lockdowns. unleashed a crisis without precedent,” vaccine, access to it must not be The novel coronavirus has The department also Duterte said. denied nor withheld. It should be killed at least 968,000 people since the registered 765 additional recoveries, The chief executive pointed made available to all, rich and poor outbreak emerged in China last taking the total number of people who out that universal access to anti- nations alike, as a matter of policy,” he December. More than 31.48 million got well to 231,373. COVID-19 techonologies and said. cases have been registered. But 44 more deaths related to products is essential in recovery from Duterte has repeatedly said in COVID-19 were logged, raising the toll the pandemic. his speeches that the country’s return to normalcy rests on the availability of

www.filipinostar.org 2 August 2020 The North American Filipino Star use mail-in as an alternative to From the Publisher’s desk Councilor Rotrand’s traditional in-person voting. Canada’s Chief Electoral Officer has written me to confirm that he also will be expanding NCityeBuwdgest 2l0e21tter voting by mail and may indeed ask Adapting to The Government of Quebec Parliament for new legislation. In has refused Valérie Plante’s demand to response to my queries, several allow Montreal to deficit spend. I can provincial Ministers of Municipal Affairs the new only assume that Minster Andree have informed me that their provinces Laforest, like many Montreal already allow voting by mail at the normal Councillors, received many alarmed municipal level. The system is safe, calls and emails from citizens opposed secure and proven to be fraud-free as it Zenaida Ferry Kharroubi to giving the Mayor’s spendthrift is exceedingly well controlled. administration the right to spend even Montreal, however, won’t be era: "Nothing in life is to be feared, it more. The Minister insists that, as per allowing the system unless Quebec is only to be understood. Now is the the long established law, Montreal must decides in favour. That’s the essence of time to understand more, so that we adopt a balanced budget. what the City Commission has may fear less." Elected in 2017, Ms. Plante’s concluded while recognizing that Overcoming our fears of Projet Montréal Party has ballooned voting by mail certainly reduces the getting the virus requires our vigilance Montreal’s budget increasing spending risks of the spread of COVID. I can and reliance on getting proper by over a billion dollars. The rate of assure you that my work on this guidance and information from our spending has been triple inflation. That important file will continue. has seen annual hikes to municipal tax During these pandemic times, medical authorities as well as helping Queen Mary Road life has become uncertain and difficult disseminate accurate information to bills, already high compared to other Despite the observation by our It is important to find ways to keep our others. Let us not create panic nor Canadian cities, and spurred rent Borough civil servants that a bus lane hopes up and our faith that things downplay the danger of the virus. If increases for tenants as well, Despite would compromise too much parking cannot get any worse and that there are we observe the safety protocols all that spending, the municipality also and impact merchants already seeing a opportunities to discover amidst the recommended, we are not only borrowed heavily for capital projects, decline in business due to COVID, the bleak economic situation. As Fred helping ourselves but also protecting with many questionable priorities such Plante administration is intending to Rogers said, "Often when you think others - our family, friends, and as bicycle expressways forcing the City push ahead with such a bus lane this you're at the end of something, you're neighbors. to assume a record debt. The autumn. This is despite the fact that at the beginning of something else." It may seem odd that we have province’s position will now force some COVID has seen transit ridership There are people who have become to wear a mask when in a store, bus, painful choices on Plante. The budget plummet to record low levels. I have creative and developed a new hobby shopping mall, and other places, both process for 2021 begins soon. Expect asked for a one year moratorium to because of having more time in their indoors and outdoors, if we are among more tax hikes accompanied by service allow the street to regain its economic hands, and also discovered that they a crowd but this is the best way to cuts - and, still, probably more bicycle vitality but so far there has been no have found joy in staying close to their protect ourselves according to Dr. expressways. I will send an update response from the administration. family while they are in quarantine. Robert Redfield, CDI director. We are when the budget arrives in City Incidentally, my demands Although the world has known not surrendering our rights but we are Council. made in 2018, and repeated since, that other types of pandemic, it is said that showing that we care and we want Recently the City conducted an Queen Mary be repaved if it could not Covid 19 is the first of its kind in 100 everyone else to be safe. on-line survey as to what citizens want be admitted into a program for years. We are living in a new normal, To survive this pandemic, we to see in next year's budget. The survey commercial artery revitalization has and we must therefore expect that need to believe we shall overcome was criticized in the media as highly been rebuffed. Under Mayor Coderre there may be drastic changes that we whatever happens as long as we keep slanted and misleading, with questions the City upgraded Victoria, Van Horne must accept in order to move forward, ourselves safe for while there is life, framed in such a way as to justify and de la Savane, all highly and make the best of everything but there is hope. As the popular singer choices the City was attempting to appreciated improvements. Under most of all, overcome our fears. A John Lennon said: "Everything will be promote. Worse still, the Plante Mayor Plante, there have been no quote from Marie Curie’s famous words okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not administration refused to publish an major projects aimed at our streets in English version. I note that many seems to be very relevant to our current the end." the Borough. As you have no doubt residents contacted the City observed, funding goes instead to Ombudsman to complain. Subscription request mail to: bicycle paths. Queen Mary is 7159 ch. de la Cote des Neiges Black Coalition of Quebec - Snowdon's main shopping street and it After 42 years as President of Montreal, QC H3R 2M2 needs re-investment. The City's current one of our city’s principal organizations financial situation more or less Name: ______working to promote civil rights and precludes anything in 2021 but I am racial equality, Dan Philip has retired. Address: ______hopeful that a change in administra-tion On August 25, City Council adopted my could see funds budgeted for Queen ______motion recogniz-ing Mr. Philip’s Mary for 2022 or 2023. Telephone: ______E-mail: ______leadership and contribution to making Place Names Quebec a better place. The Coalition’s The City has followed up on my new President, Max Stanley Bazin, 1 year 2 years consultation of residents in 2016 for pledges to continue the struggle 12 issues $36 24 issues $60 new place names for green spaces in against racial profiling and indicates the the Triangle district. The City Place Please issue cheque payable to: North American Filipino Star. organiza-tion will remain vigilant in Name Commission accepted my identifying and denouncing proposal to name the new park in this discrimination and inequality. new residential area for philanthropist Voting By Mail Saidye Bronfman and the green While City Council adopted walkway linking the area to the Namur my motion for a study of allowing a vote metro for Yolene Jumelle. As well there by mail option for the November 7, has been work to respond to my 2021 municipal election as a health motions to attribute place names in measure against COVID and as a Montreal for Elie Wiesel and. Warren 7159 ch. de la Cote des Neiges Tel.: 514-485-7861/ 514-506-8753 means to boost voter participation, the Allmand. Some good news will be Montreal, Quebec H3R 2M2 E-Mail: [email protected] Commission hearing the matter, made public soon. www.filipinostar.org Published by: Filcan Publications, Inc .. dominated by Mayor Plante’s party, I'd like to take this opportunity came back with an ambivalent report, to wish you and your loved ones good Zenaida F. Kharroubi neither fully accepting nor outright health as our summer ends and best Fely Rosales Carino Chief Editor W.G. Quiambao rejecting this possibility. wishes for a safe autumn season. Society New s Publisher - North .American Tagalog Columnist Voting by mail will play a major Filipino Star role in this year’s United States April 1998-present Presidential elections. It is anticipated Bert Abiera Sam Kevin Marvin Rotrand, City Councillor - Founder-Publisher, Filipino Star Show Biz News & Layout Editor that the USA will see a record number Snowdon Nov. 1982- Nov. 97 of ballots cast this way as both [email protected] Republican and Democratic The opinions expressed by the writers and columnists do not necessarily reflect 514 868 3196 Secretaries of State make it easier to that of the management of the North American Filipino Star nor its editors. September 2020 The North American Filipino Star 3 Rivalries challenge UN as it marks

75 years since founand indternaitionnal cog operation. Guterres for a global ceasefire - to allow "Our shared home is in countries to focus on fighting COVID- disarray. Our foundations are 19 - as a result of bickering between crumbling," French President China and the US. Emmanuel Macron told the assembly. Several leaders called for reform of the "Wars of annexation, chemical UN and the Security Council in weapons use, mass detention are all particular, arguing it was unfair that the occurring with impunity," he continued. US, Russia, China, France and the "Our international system is held United Kingdom were the only hostage by rivalries. It is being permanent veto-wielding powers. weakened by its inability to prosecute "A council structure that leaves the fate individuals responsible for these of more than seven billion people to the abuses." mercy of five countries is neither fair nor But Trump chose the moment sustainable," Turkey's President Recep of the UN's anniversary to impose Tayyip Erdogan said. The one-day sanctions on Iran for violating a UN special event on Monday took place arms embargo and demanded ahead of the annual meeting of world enforcement by US allies, despite his leaders at the UN, which starts on September 22, 2020 AL JAZEERA AND in the video he recorded for the decision in 2018 to unilaterally Tuesday. No presidents or prime NEWS AGENCIES meeting. They were included in a withdraw the US from the six-power ministers will be physically present in World leaders came together, longer statement that the Chinese UN agreement. Allies says he has no New York because of the pandemic virtually, on Monday to mark the 75th mission said was submitted to the authority to make such demands. and all statements have been anniversary of the United Nations, as world body. Reform calls prerecorded for broadcast in the the coronavirus pandemic and China has portrayed itself as UN Secretary-General Antonio General Assembly hall. economic disruption challenge the the chief cheerleader for multilateralism Guterres said the pandemic had The UN was created after effectiveness and solidarity of the after US President Donald Trump's exposed the world's fragilities. We can World War II when countries decided to organisation that was set up after the disregard for international cooperation only address them together. Today we come together to prevent another such horrors of World War II. Millions of led to Washington abandoning global have a surplus of multilateral conflict. While there has not been a war people were forced into lockdown and deals on climate and Iran, and leaving challenges and a deficit of multilateral of that scale since, leaders adopted a economies were devastated as COVID- the UN Human Rights Council and the solutions," he said. "No one wants a statement on Monday acknowledging 19 began to spread around the globe World Health Organization (WHO). world government - but we must work "moments of disappointment". earlier this year. Now, some countries 'Reasons for concern' together to improve world governance." "All this calls for greater action, find themselves facing a second wave Trump was listed as the first not less," the statement said. and the 193-member UN has struggled speaker among member states on the UN's 'global ceasefire' resolution falters to assert itself in the face of a distrustful UN's agenda for the event. Instead, it The 15-member Security United States, an assertive China and a was US Acting Deputy Representative Council took months to back a call by growing rivalry between the two. to the UN, Cherith Norman Chalet, who On its own website to mark the spoke in the General Assembly hall. anniversary, the UN said the event was The world body had in many

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres taking place at a "time of great ways proven to be a "successful disruption for the world, compounded experiment", she said, but added that by an unprecedented global health there were "also reasons for concern". crisis with severe economic and social "The United Nations has for too long impacts". been resistant to meaningful reform, The coronavirus has intensified too often lacking in transparency, and long-simmering tensions between the too vulnerable to the agenda of EXPRESCO FOODS Inc. is looking for: US and China. Washington accuses autocratic regimes and dictatorships," PRODUCTION PERSONNEL Beijing of a lack of transparency over she said. (General Production) the outbreak, which began in the Al Jazeera's diplomatic Salary range Chinese central city of Wuhan late last correspondent James Bays said SANITATION TECHNICIANS between year. Trump's absence raised eyebrows. MACHINE OPERATORS 13.50-18 $ / hr In an apparent swipe at "People are asking whether this was a FULL-TIME to join our production team. Benefits (Group Washington, China's President Xi deliberate snub or an indication of how insurance, RRSP, Jinping said on Monday: "No country important the US feels the UN is in its Share purchase * Bring your CV to: has the right to dominate global affairs, priority list," he said, speaking from 8205 Transcanadienne (cor. Poirier) outside the UN headquarters in New Refrigerated control the destiny of others, or keep Ville Saint Laurent, QC advantages in development all to itself. York City. Other leaders spoke of environment Even less should one be allowed to do the need for countries to work together (5-7 0C) OR by email whatever it likes and be the hegemon, on issues such as climate change and to: [email protected] bully or boss of the world. Unilateralism the pandemic, and lamented the *after 6 months of OR by fax at 514-344-6793 is a dead end." Xi's remarks were not rivalries that were undermining the UN service www.filipinostar.org 4 The North American Filipino Star September 2020

From Page 1 Second Covid 19 wave in which the federal Liberals promised to keep financially supporting Canadians through what’s shaping up to be a fall resurgence of the virus, while repairing the inequalities the pandemic has exposed. The prime minister also took this opportunity to personally pitch his government’s economic and social response and rebuilding plan to Canadians. According to his prepared remarks shared with reporters in advance of his address, Trudeau will also soon touch on the measures his government has and will continue to take to aid out of work and ill Canadians in the months ahead. "The federal government will have your back, whatever it takes, to help you get through this crisis," referencing the 9 million people who used the Canada Emergency Response Benefit which is now being transitioned into a modified Governor General Julie Payette, middle, looks on with Chief of Defence Staff Vance, left, and Employment Insurance program, as Prime Minister Trudeau as the Usher of the Black Rod leaves to summon the HoC to come listen well as the employees who were hired to the throne speech in the Senate chamber on Sept. 23, 2020. (Adrian Wyld/CP) back because their employers 'MUST REMAIN EXTREMELY proposals and panning the federal concerns. accessed the emergency wage VIGILANT': O'TOOLE government for not yet approving In an interview with CTV News subsidy program that is now being The three main opposition rapid testing systems. Chief Anchor and Senior Editor Lisa extended until next summer. parties addressed the nation following Blanchet spoke about where LaFlamme, Deputy Prime Minister and This evening address is Trudeau's comments, offering up their the Liberals have fallen short on Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland different than the more than 80 own words of encouragement about supports for seniors, and said his defended the dual dose of federal morning addresses to the nation that diligently keeping up the caucus wants to see increased federal messaging on Wednesday, saying that the prime minister held between mid- recommended public health health transfers to the provinces. it’s a key time for the government to March and late June, where day after measures, as well as launching “I know that you're worried,” deliver the message that COVID-19 day he unveiled billions of dollars in political attacks on the Liberals’ said NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh in his still presents a real threat to the aid to Canadians out of work, response. response. “I know that you're worried country. struggling businesses, and to procure Both Conservative Leader Erin about your kids going to school. I “Ultimately, the way that we personal protective equipment, test O’Toole and Bloc Quebecois Leader know you're worried about paying the will all stop COVID, the way we will kits, and vaccines. Yves-Francois Blanchet delivered their bills. I know you're worried about your flatten the curve, is by each one of us Though, he did have a similar remarks from self-isolation as they and jobs. I know you're worried about your personally doing the right thing. And tone, in imploring a team-Canada their spouses have contracted COVID- loved ones and our elders in long-term that means limit your social effort to fight the virus' spread. 19. care homes, and you're seeing the interactions… wear a mask… wash "There are many days to go “The situation facing my family numbers rising and you're worried your hands, socially distance.” before we get to the other side of this, shows that we must remain extremely about a second wave,” he continued, but there are also many of us to get us vigilant in our battle against COVID- promising to push the government to there, so long as we each remember 19,” said O’Toole before pivoting to a do more to address Canadians’ to do our part, and I know that we will," wide-spanning speech on his policy resurging health and economic Trudeau said.

while COVID-19 is spreading in the community? Quebec's second COVID-19 wave presents More crucially, is Quebec up to the task? "It will really be something Bnenejamwin Shicnglehr ·aCBlClNeewns · ges, and they're daunting different," said Dr. Karl Weiss, who Posted: Sep 23, 2020 4:00 AM ET | heads the infectious diseases Last Updated: September 23 department at Montreal's Jewish As case numbers increase, General Hospital, where there has will the province be able to answer been a recent surge in hospitalizations them? related to COVID-19. In the spring, at the height of "What we will have is the first COVID-19 wave, Quebec outbreaks everywhere. We will have struggled to control the coronavirus as outbreaks in schools, we will have it swept through the province's ill- outbreaks in bars, associated with equipped network of long-term care private parties, religious gatherings." homes. As a result, Weiss said, the As the province went into challenge will be in ensuring these lockdown, the vast majority of the outbreaks are quickly controlled. deaths were among elderly people in "There will be a lot more care, while the general population saw problems in managing, for example, far lower rates of transmission and schools," he said on the Radio-Canada hospitalization. program Tout un matin. "If there's an A COVID-19 screener administers a nasal swab at a drive-through The contrast prompted COVID-19 testing centre in Longueuil, Que. (Ivanoh Demers/CBC) outbreak in a school, should the parent Premier Francois Legault to remark, community and the province reluctant have implemented tighter infection- go to work? If they do, will they infect not without controversy, that the virus to institute a second large-scale control protocols and 10,000 new others?" had created "two separate worlds": one lockdown, the challenges are multiple patient attendants were brought in to Health-care network feeling the inhabited by the residents of long-term and wide-ranging. address the worker shortage in strain care homes and the other by the rest of On the plus side, there are CHSLDs. This week has provided society. more resources on hand to fight off the But a new problem presents evidence of what Weiss is talking about. This time around, with the pandemic. Provincial health authorities itself: How do you keep things open virus already spreading in the See Page 9 Quebec’s second www.filipinostar.org September 2020 The North American Filipino Star 5 violate the measures. The worrisome upward trend in new cases came as the federal Liberal Canada's daily new COVID-19 government laid out its plan to take on the second wave. “To prevent small clusters from CcolinaPerskel eTshe Cahnadaian Pvreses tripled in past month becoming major outbreaks, com- TORONTO — A dramatic munities may need to enact short-term tripling of daily new cases of COVID-19 closure orders,” the government said in in the past month, mostly among young its throne speech. people, has prompted the prime Stringent lockdowns in the minister to declare the arrival of the spring caused unprecedented second wave of the pandemic and that economic disruption, prompting the Canadians likely won’t be able to gather government to spend tens of billions of for Thanksgiving. dollars on supports as unemploy-ment “In our four biggest provinces, skyrocketed. the second wave isn’t just starting, it’s The throne speech promised, already underway,” Justin Trudeau said among other things, an extension of the Wednesday evening in a rare television federal wage-subsidy program until next address to the nation. summer, more aid for businesses and 'We have room' in hospitals, help to boost testing capacity. People in Dubé says, as two more regions are put various cities have waited for hours or on orange alert even days for virus testing. Safety “We’re on the brink of a fall that concerns led a hospital in Kitchener, could be much worse than the spring.” Ont., to close its drive-thru testing centre Trudeau said Canadians can’t People line up to be tested for COVID-19 at a testing centre in Toronto on Sunday, Sept. 13, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette as people arrived in the wee hours. do anything to change the numbers In all, COVID-19 has killed COVID-19 epidemic trajectory,” Tam spread of COVID-19 among younger now, or even tomorrow. about 9,250 people in Canada, while the said before Trudeau’s address. “Unless people. “But what we can change is cumulative case count has been edging public health and individual protective Data from Ontario show cases where we are in October, and into the toward the 150,000 mark. measures are strengthened and we among those in their 20s have risen winter,” he said. Quebec, with more than 69,000 work together to slow the spread of the sharply in the past month, with one “It’s all too likely we won’t be cases, accounts for about 48 per cent of virus, the situation is on track for a big expert attributing the increase in part to gathering for Thanksgiving, but we still the total cases but 63 per cent of the resurgence in a number of provinces.” the reopening of schools and have a shot at Christmas.” deaths. Ontario’s more than 48,000 While the new cases were universities. Canada’s chief public health reported cases account for 33 per cent primarily among young adults, more In an effort to tackle the officer, Dr. Theresa Tam, said the nationally, and 31 per cent of fatalities than 400 schools in Quebec and problem, several provinces, cities and country had seen an average of more On Wednesday, Quebec another 153 in Ontario reported at least universities have warned of stiff fines for than 1,100 new cases of the novel reported 471 new cases. Another four one case of the illness. The figures from violating anti-COVID restrictions. coronavirus a day this past week reported deaths from the novel compared with about 380 a day in mid- the group COVID Ecoles Quebec and However, Quebec said it would not August. the Ontario government came as allow police to enter homes without a “Canada is at a crossroads with the authorities seek ways to curb the warrant to break up gatherings that See Page 6 Canada’s daily

www.filipinostar.org September 2020 6 The North American Filipino Star challenging as the students were Arts. They are Pasko Noon, Pasko actually professionals coming from the Ngayon in commemoration of the 100th PERSONALITY OF THE MONTH Philippines or other countries. These year anniversary of Philippine students just wanted a preparatory Independence. Last but not the least is By Fely Rosales-Cariño program that would eventually lead the concert staged at the Oscar them to greater opportunities in Peterson Hall, Concordia University, healthcare. Pasalamat in partnership with the City of Teaching at Gilmore was not Montreal in commemoration of the only challenging but fun in a way. Her 375th anniversary of the founding of the favorite subject was “Teambuilding” City of Montreal. which she and her students turned into Awards...awards...of course. workshop opportunities. They were very The performances of Panday earned the creative. Together they created following: The Most Outstanding Filipino scenarios in a healthcare setting by Organization in Canada by the presenting examples of situations Binibining Pilipinas, Toronto, Ontario, during which solutions depended on Canada; the Banaag Award, a strategic team efforts. She said that she Presidential award from Malacanang and her students learned from these Palace in recognition for its workshops. humanitarian activities, and in its effort She taught at Gilmore from to promote Filipino musical heritage 2005 to 2018. Thanks to Zenaida through choral singing. Paul Imperial as Kharroubi, Gilmore College musical director and Edith as International’s founder and director and coordinator and pianist represented the to her co-teachers, all Filipino retired Panday in receiving the award from the nurses, who made their collective then Philippine President Gloria experience a memorable and Macapagal Arroyo at Malacanang productive one. Palace, Manila, Philippines. In her With all the accomplishments, recollection, she also enjoyed the recent awards, and accolades bestowed upon award she received from the TWENTY her, both in her nursing profession and OUTSTANDING FILIPINO ACHIEVERS in her music career, no one can argue if IN NORTH AMERICA (TOFA). Her I vote for her as a musical icon of Panday musical family accompanied Montreal. Who else will vote? Ita-as ang her on her trip. The evening opened with kamay! (I raise two hands!) their rendition of the Philippine National One can say that Edith’s life is Anthem, the Canada National Anthem, already full, but it’s not yet finished! Her and the American National Anthem. music still goes on and on and on. We Most recently, Edith joined the Yay, it’s fall! If youEtadkeitahdraive Fehedr caonltirazcot, she (and some colleagues) thank you, Edith, and members of the Filipino Heritage Committee of Montreal. along Lakeshore Boulevard, you start to heard of the 1967 World Expedition that Panday for the priceless enjoyment you In the first year, she served as secretary notice the subdued and calm waters. was still on. As a testimony to her good bring us during your concerts. when musical director Paul Imperial was Soon, multi-colored leaves start to work ethic, she found a job at the Royal Everybody looks forward to being there, chairman. For sure, there will be more appear. Or, am I dreaming through my Edward Chest Hospital, known as the in the audience, again and again performances in the future for the sunglasses? Or, am I daydreaming too Montreal Chest Institute (MCI). Very whenever it is Panday’s Showtime, the Panday Tinig Choral Ensemble. Their much too soon? Hope springs eternal, determined, Edith put her heart in greatest Filipino musical exhibition in Filipino songs never cease to thrill the so they say. everything she did and proved herself Montreal! audience and remind us of our beloved For the next minutes, get ready as a good worker. First accepted as a According to Edith, the most Philippines. (The Panday marked its to sit in your favorite chair with plenty of staff nurse, she was later promoted as memorable experiences that the Panday 30th anniversary by producing its 3rd chips, peanuts, two soft drinks, three assistant head nurse, then Head Nurse. Tinig Choral Ensemble has ever compact disc Hiwaga Ng Pag- cups of coffee, or five bottles of beer! In the 1990’s during the push produced are the two concerts Ibig/Mystery of Love) . (Ha! Be sober! Don’t fall asleep! Don’t from Accreditation Canada for a presented at the Weill Recital Hall, Edith, we owe you a debt of snore!). You can’t be interrupted. You program for “high quality of care and for Carnegie Hall, in New York: Aming gratitude for your loving service to your can’t receive calls. You can’t visit the risk management across all health care Handang Musika in 1995 and Kapalaran Filipino community. You make us proud powder room. Prepare to be institutions,” while still at MCI, she was in 2007. These two concerts presented a to be your kababayan. We thank the comfortable for I’m taking you along for appointed as the coordinator for Quality fundraising effort to support the Lord for your gift of music! May your a ride as we go through the rose- Assurance (QA), first in the nursing establishment at the MUHC. They musical legacy continue to beat in the colored life of Ms. EDITHA FEDALIZO, department, then eventually the QA for presented Sing to Health in 2009 and hearts of every Pinoy and Pinay. the North American Filipino Star’s the whole hospital. In 1996 during the Love in Any Language in 2011. Also Mabuhay!!! PERSONALITY OF THE MONTH of amalgamation of McGill Affiliated etched in her memory was a concert September 2020). Hospitals towards the establishment of presented at Cinque Salle, Places Des Here we go. Edith was born in a single health care institution, the Ottawa, one of the harder hit cities, said. From Page 5 Canada’s daily San Narciso, Zambales, Philippines. McGill University Health Center (MUHC), Ontario data indicates new She remembers her early upbringing she became the QA coordinator for the coronavirus brought the province’s total cases among people in their 20s have was greatly influenced by her late Montreal Neurological Hospital as well. fatalities to 5,809. Ontario, which reached similar levels to those seen mother, Mrs. Juliana Bernardino In the midst of a very hectic professional has shown a steady increase in new among people in their 80s in mid-April. Fedalizo, who exposed her to music by career, an opportunity in music came cases since mid-August, after months of Along with school reopenings, Dr. Brian bringing her to church not only for up. She heard of the Filipino Choir of declines, reported 335 new cases Ward, a professor of medicine at McGill worship, but also to encourage her to Montreal that was established in 1985. Wednesday and another three deaths. University, cited bars and parties as key participate in church activities such as This later became the Panday Tinig Almost 70 per cent of new infections factors, along with a “general sense of choir, plays, drama etc. Since her Choral Ensemble, sometimes called were in people under the age of 40. invulnerability” among younger people. mother was quite sickly, she decided to Panday, who chose her as the Concern is also mounting as “COVID fatigue also clearly choose a profession in health care. After coordinator and pianist. Little did she more long-term care homes in Ontario, plays a role,” Ward said. high school, she took up nursing and know that this was the beginning of her brutally hit by the virus earlier in the year, Winnipeg, for example, finished her Bachelor of Science in musical involvement in Montreal. This report outbreaks. Almost 70 per cent of accounted for 30 of Manitoba’s 42 new Nursing from the Mary Johnston year, 2020, marks the 35th year of the fatalities have been among those aged cases reported Wednesday, with College of Nursing in Manila. Panday, the most creative and enriching 80 and older and another 27 per cent possible exposures at restaurants, bars After graduation, she briefly memory to her. were 60 to 79 years of age. and a pub trivia night, the province said. joined the faculty of her school and Five years following her While older people and those Trudeau sympathized with served as a clinical nursing instructor. retirement from nursing, an opportunity with underlying health conditions are Canadians feeling the stress of a second Not long after, she heard of a popular came to do teaching once again. more susceptible to severe illnesses wave, but urged people to be strong. advertisement called the Exchange Besides music, teaching is a passion from SARS-CoV-2, younger people can “‘Can’t’ will not define us,” he spread the disease — often before Visitors’ Program, which invited doctors that she enjoys doing. In this case, it said. showing any symptoms. and nurses to go abroad and serve for a was to teach the practice of being a “We can bend the curve. We “When there’s so much in the period of two years. She took this “personal support worker” as they call it can build a stronger future. We can community, it can escalate into the opportunity and worked as a nursing in Ontario and other provinces. In define the change.” populations with more vulnerability,” Dr. staff at the Rochester Methodist Quebec we call them the “préposé aux This report by The Canadian Vera Etches, medical officer of health in Hospital, Rochester, USA. At the end of bénéficiares.” She said this was very Press was first published Sept. 23, 2020. www.filipinostar.org September 2020 The North American Filipino Star 7 40 days until the U.S. election: A look at

GwrahamhSlaueghterr CeTVNewts.cahings stand in Trump vsU.S.. eleBction.iTrdumpehas in ndicated that Writer he’ll nominate a conservative judge to Four years ago, Donald replace Ginsburg — likely a woman — Trump was having a bad week in the by Saturday. polls. Democrats have indicated that One survey suggested that they’ll challenge the nomination in the most Americans feared him becoming Senate, which is responsible for president. Another suggested that 60 approving justice picks, but the per cent of registered voters said he Republican-controlled Senate carries doesn’t respect "ordinary Americans.” enough votes to push through the In the national horse race, Democratic vote, barring any defections. The candidate Hillary Clinton was leading Republicans say they plan to hold a in almost every poll. vote before the election. Fast forward to today, and The appointment of a right- polls once again suggest Trump is the leaning justice would give the U.S. underdog. But, as the old saying Supreme Court a conservative majority goes, a week is a lifetime in politics, for years to come, an imbalance that and Trump has a track record of some on the left fear could have major Joe Biden Donald Trump defying pollsters and writing his own implications for issues such as for six straight elections. Biden — who million boost following the political playbook. reproductive and LGBT rights. was born in the state — is keen to win announcement of Kamala Harris as his And yet, 2020 is not 2016, As for the impact on the race, it back, and recently held a CNN town vice-presidential running mate. and the U.S. is in a radically different Ginsburg’s death triggered a wave of hall there. Polls suggest Biden holds a But Trump still holds the place than it was four years ago. The donations to the Democratic party, with marginal but stable lead in advantage. Analysis by NPR suggests pandemic, ongoing unrest over police US$71 million raised in the 24 hours Pennsylvania, and Democrats are Trump and the Republican Party have violence against Black Americans and after her death. breaking records with mail-in voting raised US$1.33 billion total over Biden the possibility of a conservative- registration. The state’s 20 electoral and the Democrats’ US$990 million. THE ENDORSEMENT RACE majority Supreme Court have made Biden has earned the public votes could play a decisive role on Third-party donors could also this race one like no other. support of Cindy McCain, the widow of Nov. 3. play a role. Billionaire and former Every week until Nov. 3, late Republican senator and 2008 Democrats are also looking to Democratic presidential candidate CTVNews.ca will offer a snapshot of presidential nominee John McCain. It’s win in Wisconsin, which was reliably Michael Bloomberg recently the state of the race for the White the first time a member of the McCain Democratic until Trump carried by committed to spending at least House. With 40 days to go, here’s a family has endorsed a Democrat, less than one point in 2016. Clinton US$100 million in hopes of pushing look at where things stand. despite longtime tensions between the notoriously didn’t visit the state during Biden to victory in Florida. However, family and Trump, who has questioned WHAT NATIONAL POLLS SAY her campaign, and — especially after Republicans have expressed Unusually stable. McCain’s military service. the ongoing unrest in Kenosha, Wis. confidence that they’ll once again win That’s how pollsters keep Several former Trump officials — Democrats don’t want to make the the all-important battleground state, describing the numbers they see from have also backed Biden, including a same mistake twice. which Trump carried by 1.2 points in statewide surveys, with Joe Biden former adviser to U.S. Vice-President Nevada may represent a 2016. holding a sizeable national lead by a Democratic weak spot. Trump has Mike Pence who served on the White larger margin than Hillary Clinton held held multiple rallies and poured RBG’S DEATH at this time in 2016. millions of ad dollars into Nevada, a Biden holds a seven-point reliably Democratic state that Clinton lead over Trump, according to Real carried in 2016 and Democrats Clear Politics and The New York handily won in the 2018 midterms. But Times’ Upshot, which analyze the pandemic has thrown a wrench national polls and calculate averages. into traditional door-knocking FiveThirtyEight, which weighs polls campaigns by Democrats there. and other factors such as past voter Four traditionally red states — behaviour, suggests Biden has a Arizona, Texas, Georgia and North roughly three-in-four shot of winning Carolina — are also highly the White House — odds that have competitive this election. The Cook barely changed since June. Political Report, a non-partisan By this time in 2016, Clinton organization that offers snapshots of was leading Trump by about two the race based on polls, currently lists points, but those numbers swung Arizona as leaning Democrat, Georgia wildly throughout the campaign. In and North Carolina as toss-ups and the end, Clinton won the popular vote Texas as “leans Republican.” Ruth Bader Ginsburg by two points but lost the electoral House coronavirus task force, a And there are rumblings Supreme Court Justice Ruth college. former chief of staff at the Department among Republicans in Ohio that Bader Ginsburg was an icon of In the coming weeks, keep an of Homeland Security, and former Trump may be losing his support in women’s rights in America, and her eye on how polls react to the White House communications director the suburbs, with research showing a death has thrown a curveball into the upcoming presidential debates. The uniform drop in support across the Anthony Scaramucci.## first will be held next Tuesday, Sept. state. That’s important because no 29. Republican has won the White House BATTLEGROUND STATES without Ohio since the modern two- While national polls offer party system began. insights into the general mood of the FOLLOW THE MONEY CLEANERS NEEDED electorate, it’s close statewide races Money plays a major role in that ultimately determine who wins U.S. politics, and while Trump once Daytime or evening (after 6pm) the White House. Florida and Ohio held a sizeable lead over Biden in have long been considered cash-on-hand, Biden has narrowed office cleaning 5 days per week bellwethers, but this year, there are that gap. several other states in the mix. In August, Biden broke (Monday to Friday) records by raising US$364 million — Car required, $19 per hour. Call Trump won Pennsylvania by significantly more than Trump’s $61 less than one point in 2016, an upset million raised in the same month. win after Democrats carried the state Biden’s campaign also saw a US$26- Michael 514 624-3437 www.filipinostar.org September 2020 8 The North American Filipino Star everyone is confined to their home, more and hospital support staff have been internet bandwidth is consumed watching overwhelmed with the spike in patients videos, engaging on social media and admitted to hospitals. On a good day, keeping in touch with friends and family. Canada’s healthcare system is already Some service providers, such as Bell, have under strain. With the added surge of announced unlimited internet bandwidth COVID-19 patients over the past few for all residential customers during the weeks, many of whom require long-term pandemic to ease the burden of overage intensive care, hospitals and healthcare fees. Mobile phone networks are also facilities are being pushed to their limits. under strain. With in-person meetings no Also compounding the situation is the longer an option, phone calls and video extended length of time COVID-19 patients calls are the main way people are staying stay in hospitals and require access to Compiled data from in touch, so mobile networks are ventilators; hospitalized COVID-19 patients educational research by experiencing higher volumes than normal. may require long stays spanning several Zenaida F. Kharroubi Workers in customer and IT support, months in severe cases. Nurses, who are installation, maintenance and repair ensure responsible for the day-to-day care of Canadians are able to access these critical patients, are particularly in demand during Industries that are trending during services. this time. Respiratory specialists, CUSTOMER SERVICE physicians, and paramedics are also in Businesses across Canada are demand. Outside of direct patient care, the TCheOCOVVIDI-D19 -p1an9dempic ahans drebomundiedc in a vicious cycle as news and shutting down or adopting new ways of healthcare administrators are also in swiftly changed the lives of Canadians. announcements about COVID-19 emerge operating, so it’s a given that their demand. The huge influx of patients means Federal and provincial governments have daily. In response to this financial volatility, customers will have questions and need the volume of administrative tasks such as implemented measures to encourage many Canadians are turning to financial support. Customer service workers are in enrolling patients, updating records, and Canadians to stay home and are actively experts to help them secure their financial demand as companies in many sectors are coordinating with insurance companies enforcing social distancing. Countless future, protect their savings, and access responding to an influx of customer has surged as well. businesses have been forced to close their financial support. From working with a questions and concerns. Customers may MANUFACTURING doors and millions of Canadians have lost bank to access financial support, like the have questions, need assistance With Canadians stockpiling their jobs or had their hours reduced. mortgage deferrals promised by the cancelling or suspending their services, essential supplies during the COVID-19 Though the economy has been hit hard by federal government, to meeting with an placing orders, or otherwise accessing pandemic, many products are flying off the these changes, there are some bright investment specialist to discuss protecting support. From cancelling or rescheduling shelves and manufacturers are struggling spots. Several critical sectors are surging retirement savings or assets such as travel plans with airlines, hotels and other to keep up with demand. We’ve all heard during the pandemic. Here are 10 sectors RRSPs and TSFAs, to understanding how providers in the hospitality industry, to about the toilet paper shortages that that are actively hiring right now. their credit will be affected by lost income, suspending ongoing subscriptions that stemmed from early panic buying. Canadians are turning to financial won’t be needed during lockdown, to Thankfully, government officials stepped in ESSENTIAL RETAIL In many provinces, non-essential institutions for support during this time. clarifying questions about item availability, to assure Canadians that there’s plenty of businesses have been forced to close. Financial advisors and customer service shipping, or other new policies that have toilet paper to go around and anyone who Essential retailers are the exception; professionals with experience in the been put into effect during the COVID-19 needs it should be able to find it in their they’re staying open so Canadians have banking sector are particularly in demand. pandemic, customer service workers have local store soon enough. However, there their hands full. Call centre agents and have been plenty of other products that are access to necessities like groceries, TELECOMMUNICATIONS cleaning supplies, pet food, medication supervisors are particularly in demand at difficult or impossible to find, such as soap and other supplies during the COVID-19 this time. Call centre staff can often work or hand sanitizer. If you’ve been grocery pandemic. Many people are stocking up remotely, allowing for social distancing. shopping lately, you’ve probably noticed on several weeks’ worth of essentials to This makes hiring call centre agents an lots of bare shelves as people stock up in reduce the time they spend outside their attractive solution for organizations to preparation for an extended lockdown. home. People are also cooking at home respond to a surge in customer requests. Manufacturers in sectors like more often following the closure of local PUBLIC HEALTH AND consumer goods and health supplies are restaurants. These changes have led GOVERNMENT ramping up production to respond to the retailers in categories such as grocery and The COVID-19 pandemic has increase in demand in consumer goods. pharmacy to experience incredibly high thrown the world into a sudden economic Personal protective equipment (PPE) and sales volume during the pandemic. depression. According to current medical supplies for healthcare workers Discount retailers, such as dollar stores, estimates, approximately 11% of are also in short supply at this time. The that contain affordable essentials such as Many service businesses have Canadians are currently unemployed. That shortages have been so acute that some food, cleaning supplies and toiletries are switched to a remote work model and number is expected to climb if the manufacturers in other sectors are also included in this category. You’ve requested that their employees work from pandemic drags on and more businesses retooling their facilities to produce in probably heard on the news about people home. This puts an incredible amount of scale back. In response, all levels of demand products (for example: breweries who are ‘panic buying’ and huge lineups at pressure on telecommunications government have stepped in with policies or cosmetic companies retooling to grocery stores. Essential retailers have companies to provide high-speed to support Canadians experiencing manufacture hand sanitizer, or car parts responded to this increase in demand by residential internet. People who may have hardship. The federal government manufacturers producing ventilators). The hiring more cashiers, store clerks, shelf been fine with a mobile data plan prior to announced a new expedited benefit to surge in demand for consumer goods and stockers, cleaners, and a variety of other COVID-19 are setting up home internet to replace Employment Insurance (EI), the healthcare supplies has led to an increase roles. work more effectively. Instead of serving Canadian Emergency Response Benefit in manufacturing jobs for line workers and concentrated business networks, service supervisors, warehouse workers, BANKING AND FINANCE The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown the providers must adapt to providing fast, manufacturing engineers, and quality economy into a tailspin. Thousands of stable and secure internet service to control specialists, among others. millions of workers spread out over smaller businesses have been forced to close and ENGINEERING AND millions of Canadians have been laid off. home networks. Networks are also under ARCHITECTURE Financial markets have plummeted and strain because of social distancing. When Construction has been deemed essential in some provinces, including Ontario, Canada’s most populous province. Building sites for projects related to critical infrastructure, healthcare, transit and residential housing remain active. In other provinces, such as Quebec, (CERB). CERB received over 300,000 construction has been halted due to submissions within 24 hours of the concerns about social distancing. application portal opening. Provincial However, for the time being, it’s full steam governments, which are responsible for ahead for construction projects in some administering healthcare and education, parts of the country. Shortages of are working around the clock to make affordable housing have been well- adjustments and ensure Canadians have documented in cities such as Vancouver access to essential services. Public service and Toronto. Those shortages show no workers are needed in areas such as signs of going away, especially as people benefits administration, social services, shelter in their homes and the number of public health, education, and IT homes available for sale on the real estate development, to ensure that Canadians are market takes a dive. With more Canadians able to access critical services and unemployed in the coming months, connect with the support they need during affordable housing may become an even this difficult time. more urgent concern. Governments don’t HEALTHCARE It goes without saying that in the See Page 12 Industries that are midst of a health crisis, healthcare workers trending are absolutely critical. Nurses, doctors, www.filipinostar.org September 2020 The North American Filipino Star 9 Filipino-Canadian lawyer runs for Centre

MBy: Toney A.mSan Juban, OeCT-rRet. of Parliament nomination blessed and fortunate. He is also proud Once anew, the Filipino of what he has been able to accomplish Canadian community in the Greater as a solicitor-barrister, bank executive, Toronto Area is agog and delighted to community leader and advocate. WFG have a "kababayan" throwing his hat in Senior Executive Vice-Chairman Agnes the political arena. Yes, folks! There is a P. Miranda, a Toronto old-timer and fresh Filipino Canadian political "kid on community leader opined that "While the the block". past many years have felt like a lifetime Paul Jonathan Saguil, a 38-year in many political ways, the community old Filipino Canadian lawyer, is running must continue to push forward. Whether for the nomination to become the Liberal we are ready for it or not, now is the time Member of Parliament Candidate for the again for the community to come Toronto Centre Riding in Toronto, together and face the challenges" Ontario. He hopes to be the progressive adding that "this opportunity has given voice for Toronto Centre as well as the us cause for both reflection and Filipinos and other ethnic & minority solidarity". groups in the Canadian Parliament As another well-known should he win the Toronto Centre riding community, PIDC Mabuhay Philippines nomination and onwards, in the next Chair Emerita Norma Carpio said, "We Federal election by way of either a must be grateful for the opportunities byelection or a snap election. He is the that we have had in our lives so far. We second MP nomination candidate in need to help and support Paul in his Toronto who is a Filipino Canadian litigating on behalf of individuals, public Ontario Bar Association, Federation of political journey, not only he being a lawyer after the candidacy of barrister- and private companies, and public and Asian Canadian Lawyers, Canadian "kababayan" but I believe he is a well- solicitor Rafael Fabregas in 2014. quasi-governmental institutions in Corporate Counsel Association and qualified individual to lead and represent A practising barrister- solicitor regulatory and professional discipline Precedent Magazine. As a university our voice in the halls of governance in in Ontario, Paul Saguil was called to the matters, appeals and applications for student, a member of the Dean's Honour Canada. We really need to rally and bar in 2008 by the Law Society of judicial review, general civil, commercial, Roll and alumnus, he was awarded reach out to everyone in the Toronto Ontario. Paul is a graduate of the and criminal proceedings. prizes and cited with distinctions for Centre electoral riding." Osgoode Hall Law School of York Paul also worked an Adjunct academic excellence & scholarship, The political boundaries of University in-2007. He received his Faculty/Course Instructor in the outstanding contribution and Toronto Centre consist of the parts of Bachelor of Arts( Honours)-Philosophy Internationally- Trained Lawyers exceptional commitment. East of Yonge & Bay Streets, West of degree from York University in 2004. Program at the University of Toronto Paul Saguil's active involvement Don Valley & Rosedale Valley, North of Paul came to Canada with his parents in Faculty of Law May 2011 - August. 2011 in the community includes voluntary- Front Street, the Esplanade & Mill 1991 at 9 years of age. Paul completed and has taught “Foundations of and -advocacy service as a chair or Street, and South of Charles & Bloor his high school studies at Chaminade Canadian Law” in a program designed member of the board, corporate Streets East. Demographically, Canada College School in Toronto. He is an to assist foreign-trained lawyers to secretary or treasurer, with 1) Judicial Census 2016 showed the riding has a openly gay individual and solidly qualify for licensing and obtain Appointments Advisory Committee, population of 103,805 with Filipinos supports BIPOC and queer youths. certification from National Committee on GTA, 2) 519 Community Centre, 3) "Start comprising 5% or 5,190, the sixth-largest His professional background Accreditation of the Federation of Law Proud/Out On Bay Street", 4) Law ethnic population group and 2.7% are and experience include the practice of Societies of Canada. He served also in Society of Ontario EquityAdvisory Filipino(Tagal0g-based) speaking law and executive management roles. the Federal Court (Canada) from July Group, 5) Ontario Justice Education residents. In the 2019 Federal election, it He is currently the Deputy Head of TD 2007 -to July 2008 as a Judicial Clerk to Network and a host of other progressive recorded 83,076 eligible voters of which Bank Group's Global Sanctions the Honourable Justice Michael Phelan community action groups. 66% or 54,896 voted. There are 23.5 % Compliance and Anti-Bribery/Anti- and has drafted case summaries and As a legal scholar and writer, he Catholics in the district covering Corruption Program since December court decisions concerning various legal has published materials in journals and Downtown Toronto, Regent Park, St. 2019 rising from being the Associate issues, including magazines from 2004 to 2013 on topics Jamestown, Cabbagetown, and Church- Vice President, Innovation, Governance, regulatory/administrative law, and dealing with diversity, hate speech, hate Wellesley, the historic LGBTQ2 and Risk Strategies from November intellectual property. crime, freedom of speech, common law, community. 2016 to December 2016, as Senior A recipient of numerous awards ethical lawyering, legal services, https://www.elections.ca/res/cir/maps2/ Counsel, Disputes and Investigations and recognition, Paul as a lawyer and statutory interpretations, wrongful mapprov.asp?map=35108&lang=e] from January 2016 - October 2016 and community issues- advocate has been conviction lessons, legal ethics Please visit and register to Counsel, Litigation December 2012 - given the recognition for excellence, concepts, and emotional implications www.votesaguil.ca. Paul can be December 2015. Formerly, he served as leadership, community-building and Paul, from a new beginning in reached at [email protected]. an Associate at Stockwoods LLP in 2008 precedent-setting among others by Canada, when his family emigrated here until 2012 providing legal advice to and prestigious organizations like the as a child to serve as a lawyer, he was was closer to 8,000. difficult." In contrast with the spring, From Page 4 Quebec’s second The increase in cases so far "We gave them holidays, but when contact between people was On Tuesday, public health hasn't overwhelmed hospitals, though that's not sufficient. I think we need to limited, public health now sometimes officials said they had logged 75 new the number of hospitalizations is on the protect them," he said. "And I think it's has to track down dozens of people in outbreaks in the previous 48 hours. The rise. In the past four days, the total has like … when you had a tough situation connection with a single positive case. province is now dealing with 250 climbed by 20 per cent, to 168. for a long time, you need, at one point, Dr. Mylène Drouin, the city's separate locations where the virus is Weiss said a bigger increaseis to see the end of it. And I think we are at public health director, revealed a spreading. only a matter of time. the beginning of something that we don't troubling statistic on Monday: out of the With the virus being transmitted Limiting the spread among the know what will be ... So, I think it's 500 people they called this past in the community, Health Minister general population will be key to avoid understandable that our resources are weekend, only one-third picked up. Christian Dubé said exposing health- overwhelming the health-care system. tired. That's what is tough." Dubé estimated last week that, care workers to illness is perhaps his "Even if it's just one or two per Containing outbreaks overall, the province has been able to greatest worry as a second wave gains cent of the infected that ends up With cases surging and the get in touch with roughly 70 per cent of amplitude. hospitalized, it's a simple question of province's businesses, schools and contacts. "Community transmission mathematics," Weiss said. "One or two activities still open, rapid testing and That's far below the level affects the staff of our health network per cent of 1,000 or 10,000 is a lot less contact tracing become essential. experts say is required to contain the and puts a lot of pressure on the health- than one or two per cent of 100,000 or Carl-Étienne Juneau, who holds spread of the pandemic. care network," he said, adding that the 1,000,000." a doctorate in public health and is a In a recent study, Juneau and province is already dealing with a There's another factor to specialist on the subject, summed it up: his colleagues at Université de Montréal backlog of surgeries and other medical consider: fatigue. "You basically have two choices: if concluded the baseline for effective virus services that had to be put on hold last When Dubé was asked what's people with the virus stay home and hunting requires reaching at least 80 per spring. different about the second wave and quarantine, then everyone can go out. cent of people who may have been As a result, the province has why it might be harder on the system But if people with the virus go out, then than the first, he said, "because people everyone has to stay home." roughly 2,000 open beds for COVID See Page 13 Quebec’s second cases; during the first wave, capacity are tired, our employees are tired. It was It won't be easy. September 2020 10 The North American Filipino Star

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Remove the salmon Ingredients from the pan. 1/2 teaspoon hot pepper sauce for 2 servings Add the potato puree to plates and 1 pound boneless skinless chicken top with the sautéed vegetables and breasts, cut into 1-inch cubes CREAMY SHALLOT POTATO PUREE salmon. 1 pound smoked sausage, halved and Enjoy! cut into 1/4-inch slices 4 tablespoons butter, divided 1/2 pound uncooked medium shrimp, 2 shallots, thinly sliced peeled and deveined 2 cloves garlic, minced Hot cooked rice ½ cup whole milk (120 mL) 1 ½ teaspoons white pepper Directions 1 teaspoon salt In a 5-qt. slow cooker, combine the 2 lb yellow potato (905 g), peeled, tomatoes, broth and tomato paste. quartered, and boiled until tender Stir in the celery, green peppers, SAUTÉED VEGETABLES onion, garlic, seasonings and pepper Easy Beef and Broccoli sauce. Stir in chicken and sausage. INGREDIENTS: olive oil, to taste Cover and cook on low for 2 hours or 2/3 cup reduced sodium soy sauce 1 cup porcini mushroom (75 g), until chicken is no longer pink. Stir in 1/2 cup chicken stock trimmed and quartered shrimp. Cover and cook 15-30 1/4 cup honey 1 bunch asparagus, ends trimmed minutes longer or until shrimp turn 2 tablespoons rice wine vinegar salt, to taste Forgotten Jambalaya pink. 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With a large and cook for 5 minutes, stirring Source: Randstad occasionally, until starting to soften. portion of the Canadian workforce Push the mushrooms to one side of migrating to working from home, help the pan and add a bit more oil. Add desk, networking and data security the asparagus and season everything professionals have been working around with salt and pepper. Cook for 5 September 2020 The North American Filipino Star 13 Likewise, the Benguet, Ifugao, Covid-19 Lockdown Activities for Bontoc, Apayao, Kalinga (BIBAK) seniors. This coming month, Chairman organization had a picnic at MacKenzie Al Abdon will start a new project called King Park along Cote St. Catherine, LA VILLE EXTRAORDINAIRE in Montreal last August 29, 2020. partnership with Dr. Cynthia Hammond Everyone enjoyed the sudden burst of of Concordia University. sunshine. The day was spent mostly During the lockdown, there was eating as everyone expected. After a also the AYUDA project of FHSM which lengthy lunch hour, everybody stood up was recently completed. The Pasaway Social Tidbits and started singing their traditional members who participated (Rebecca songs. Later on, they also danced to Aguilar, Dolly Arjona, Dolly Belandres, their own kind of rhythmic music. Fely Bisares, Eppie Gevero, Nancy Fely Rosales Cariño Thanks to the enthusiasm exhibited by Karides, Trinidad Jimenez, , Minda Hello! How fleeting time is. It is that he can sing! After belting a few the officers led by Angie Talig-an, BIBAK Mazzone, Fely Rosales-Carino, and like an unstoppable downward rush of songs karaoke style, the crowd’s President. Those who enjoyed the Elma Bolatao) revealed their culinary the rapids, isn’t it? We are now in the last verdict: he can really sing! After a sounds and sights of BIBAK culture expertise in cooking for either lunch or gasp of summer and a week or two from staggered lunch, Arthur Javellonar were Delima, Lourdes and Asuncion supper. Everyone had the opportunity now, fall will come-a-calling. We might urged everyone to join him in his Fagsao, Geraldine, Arnel, Fely Juan, to showcase their own favorite recipe. as well start digging deep to find where modern (but very graceful) tiktok style of George Menzi, Maria Olivo, Rolly Thankfully, Al & wife Cora’s express you stashed your fall gears. My brother dancing. Alas, no one could join. Maday-a, Jennifer Martin, Susan Juan, delivery was eagerly anticipated every Nonol Rosales, wife Nina, their children Everyone was not in a position to move, Flor Barcena, Esther Silteau, Ruthlyn Tuesday or Wednesday, much to the and their families (who reside in Calgary, much less dance! QAFCT apologized to Laoyan, Joyce Segundo, Rey Belloza, delight of all members! Alberta) said that this year’s snow debut Cely Dagsaan who arrived late with her Margarita Patinlag, Rolante and Lucia An update from Snowdon happened recently, September 6 to be potluck because she couldn’t find any Javiniar. Trans Liganor, past QAFCT Councilor Marvin Rotrand. After the hard exact. They said they are always on the parking space. Kennedy Estopa was President, and yours truly were also in work of initiating and proposing a new ready because the whims of snow are quite late too because of some errands. attendance. basketball court at Mackenzie King unpredictable. Imagine, snow in We had so much fun that Bing Estopa “A moment of bonding,” Park, it is now officially open. Rotrand September in Calgary! Snow there is even forgot her single agenda - the declared Sir Gerry Danzil when asked said, “Basketball is an extremely concentrated in a beautiful resort called renewal of membership. Members were about the party invitation at Sir James & popular sport in the neighborhood. The Banff Resort, an hour’s drive from their asking, “When is the next event?” Lady Rose de la Paz’s residence, “a get- new court will be part of the place. Banff is a mountainous ridge Abangan ang susunod na kabanata. together, barkada style!” Though the improvement to MacKenzie King Park resembling a descending rows of trees, Two weeks ago, Minda weather was slightly uncooperative, that began last year with the creation of usually the first to receive snowflakes. Mazzone, the President of the eating at the front porch gave it the Place Jose Rizal and will continue next This is a picture perfect resort which I Federation of Filipino Canadian ambiance of an outdoor picnic and was year with the construction of a chalet.” urge everyone to visit. Does this sound Association of Quebec (FFCAQ), took just as fun. It was even better than a The Filipino community and other ethnic like a commercial? Yes, because I can’t her troops to the great outdoors. They picnic because we were surrounded communities whose kids live nearby are resist the memory of the majestic view went to Laramee, Quebec, near the US with 3 big bowls of roses and other huge very thankful to Councilor Rotrand! when I was teaching there. I can’t count border. They rented three power boats flowers. Bongga! Though a bit cool, we Thank you so much, Marvin! how many times I’ve visited the place. If and Lucy Salazar reported that they still enjoyed James’ cooking. He must An update from MP Anthony given the chance, I’d go visit again! couldn’t stop laughing when one of the have spent the whole day preparing! Housefather. He announced the launch And here we go again. Despite guys fell backwards while trying to reach There was so much food that the feast of the 2020-2021 New Horizons for the pandemic interlude , my social the place. Who could it be? Was it Fred could have easily fed 20 people. Those Seniors program, a community-based calendar does not relent. First in my Narvas? Nicco Mazzone? Robin Hunter? who appreciated the gourmet project. Senior organizations are invited calendar is the picnic that Quebec Felix Salazar? Al Abdon? Your guess is presentation were Sir Dario Boco & to apply for funding by getting in touch Association of Filipino Canadian as good as mine. They went fishing but Lady Claire, Sir Gerry Danzil & Lady with Sonny Moros, Coordinator, Office of Teachers (QACFT) President Bing they confessed that they didn’t catch Linda, Sir Boy Galang & Lady Annie, MP Anthony Housefather. Community- Estopa and her board planned for any, ha ha! Lady Cherry Palmos and yours truly. We based projects are eligible to receive up August 29, 2020. It was to be held at Buklod, Programming Pagtiti- just spent that time eating together and to $25,000 in grant funding. Funds are Saint Malachy Park near Decarie bay ng Pamilyang Pilipino, is soon to telling nice stories while the boys were set aside for small grants of up to $5000 Boulevard. But we were all informed that open its doors. Minda Mazzone and having their usual green jokes. It was for organizations that have not received in case of uncooperative weather, we Lourdes Fabia are spearheading this really a pleasant evening to remember! funding from the program in the past should proceed to another venue – Lilia movement in collaboration with the Thank you, Sir James and Lady Rose! It five years. These are the priorities: Esguerra’s school, also along Decarie Black community of Montreal. Here is is a unanimous decision – a chef is Support healthy aging, prevent elder Blvd. Well, the place was spacious, an example where the Buklod can help born!!! abuse and fraud, combat ageism, bright, and complete with tables and needy families. Maria and her family Coming from Al Abdon, celebrate diversity and promote chairs. It was big enough to moved to Montreal last July. Maria, Chairman of the Filipino Heritage inclusion, improve seniors’ access to accommodate the five tables of food waiting for the registration for Buklod’s Society of Montreal (FHSM), these are government services & benefits and laden with native Filipino dishes of assistance, called FFCAQ through the following updates that directly help adapt community-based organizations which lechon (roast pork) was the Minda and asked for help. So Minda seniors. First is Computer Retention for to a more virtual environment. center of attraction. Around lunchtime, and other FFCAQ officers went to work Seniors, a computer literacy project God Bless us all. May He help while waiting for the others to arrive and delivered an assortment of school using tablets. Devices will be loaned to us stay safe, stay well and stay (Filipino time), past QAFCT President supplies. The Buklod Workshop will students during the course, and the hopeful!!! Joseph Gonzalez tried to convince us soon give out its schedule. Watch for it. instruction will be virtual. Second is

open up. From Page 7 Quebec’s second "There's a danger when the rules are not clear," said Kim Lavoie, a exposed. professor of psychology in behavioural Juneau said there are two main medicine at the Université du Québec à problems with testing and tracing that Montréal. "If it's not obligatory, then need to be quickly addressed. people seem to think it's not as "It's too slow and we're not important." reaching enough people," he said on For example, the shifting rules Daybreak. for private gatherings (currently a limit of The government needs to six, or two households) have been a quickly improve its approach, Juneau source of confusion. added, whether it be through additional Dubé acknowledged as much. He said staff to make calls, putting more the province will make adjustments but resources into testing or introducing a that the public, as well, "will need to contract tracing app. make sacrifices." "People have a responsibility Most Montreal schools started in late August. Montreal remains the most If both of those things don't and I would say the government has affected region with 81 schools having at least one case of COVID-19. (Paul come off smoothly, Quebec could soon one, too," he said. "If you feel sick, you Chiasson/The Canadian Press) people to join the contact tracing effort. are more nuanced than simply "stay find itself in a situation where more and need to go get tested. And pick up the home." deeper sacrifices are required. phone." Clear messaging needed Public health experts agree The challenge has been It's not a coincidence Dubé put messaging takes on added importance relaying the new restrictions, even as out a public call Tuesday for more in a second wave, when the directives schools, businesses and workplaces September 2020 14 The North American Filipino Star

Boy to return Angelica recalls breakdown after to full-time coming home from Dubai shoot at work next the height of pandemic year

Boy Abunda Angelica Panganiban A phone call from Tito Boy Angelica Panganiban needed answers. I wanted to comedy “Hayop Ka!” alongside Abunda never fails to make my day. admitted that, just like most know who was responsible for us Sam Milby and Arci Muñoz. My dearest “sistah” (that’s how we people, she had cried a lot and (in case we got infected) since fondly call each other) has a way of had experienced “dark times” as they were the ones who sent us to Interesting challenge making his presence felt, even in his she tried to adjust to life in Dubai for work. Will they pay for absence. I cannot thank him quarantine. To calm herself during us to get tested? Who will look She said she agreed to do enough for being in my corner all one panic attack episode, the after my mental health?” all of these projects because she these years. Showbiz would be a actress said she had called up her Angelica said she said, “I don’t want ‘what ifs?’ in my kinder world if there were more people like him. bosses in the middle of the night. eventually calmed down when life.” We all miss watching him on During the recent virtual she was able to speak to doctors, The actress added: “It’s ABS-CBN’s “Tonight with Boy media gathering for her new who explained to her how she also because I find working Abunda” and “The Bottomline.” digital show “#AskAngelica,” the could effectively avoid getting during the pandemic as an These days, so many celebs and 33-year-old actress and social infected by COVID-19. “They said interesting challenge. As an actor, content creators have online talk media celebrity said she first it’s safer to not go out of the I want to say that I was able to shows, but the King of Talk cannot experienced anxiety attacks after house unless it’s really necessary. experience it, too. Lastly, it’s be dethroned. As we eagerly await undergoing a two-week I then regarded the lockdown as a because I know I would be Tito Boy’s TV comeback, allow me quarantine in early March. form of vacation, since I’ve been working with good friends, and to share snippets of our recent “I had just returned from working nonstop for 28 years. I the environment wouldn’t be as phone chat: Dubai after a (film) shoot with thought I also needed to rest.” bleak and miserable. It turned out “These days, everyone has Coco (Martin). We came home at that I was right. In a way, I did become a reporter because of the height of the ECQ (enhanced Lockdown projects enjoy work because I was with social media,” he said. “To keep up community quarantine). I had no them.” with the changing landscape and food in my house. I also knew It turned out that Angelica Hosted by Angelica not to be pushed to the point of very little about the pandemic,” didn’t rest for long. Shortly after, herself, “Ask Angelica” will air irrelevance, we must rediscover she began. “It helped that she was tapped by filmmaker and Fridays at 8 p.m. starting Sept. 25. ourselves. Rediscovering does Ketchup (Eusebio, fellow actor) ABS-CBN creative department It can also be seen on Star more than reinventing. spent his two-week quarantine in head Olivia Lamasan to work on a Cinema’s Facebook, YouTube “Most likely, I will go back to my house. I was glad I wasn’t skit with Maja Salvador for the and Spotify accounts; and will be full-time work next year na. When alone, but I experienced a fundraiser, “Gabi ng Himala: Mga available on the Facebook pages it’s already possible to fly, I want to spend a month in my hometown, breakdown shortly after he left. It Awit at Kwento.” of ABS-CBN, Star Music, Rise Borongan. I’ll always be a was because I was worried for my While in quarantine, she Artists Studio and Sinehub. You probinsyano at heart.” safety. I was like, ‘If I get the virus, also shot the Star Cinema digital can also catch it on TFC.TV, When I asked my sistah his
do I die immediately?’ drama “Love Lockdown” with iWantTFC and Kumu. famous question, “Sex or “I called up my bosses in Jake Cuenca, and worked on Avid chocolates,” his reply was “sex.”
the middle of the night because I Llongoren’s animated romantic www.filipinostar.org September 2020 The North American Filipino Star 15 Maja Salvador says goodbye to ABS-CBN, treats family to street food party

anong paraan at plataporma,” she masayang journey na ito. Marami pa added. tayong pagsasamahan mga beshies,” Maja also asked her fans to she said. support her in her latest journey.. “Isang milyong pasasalamat “Sana po ay tuloy tuloy niyo mga beshies. One million na tayo, one akong samahan at suportahan sa kahit million subscribers. Maraming- anong landas na aking tatahakin. maraming salamat po sa inyong lahat. maraming salamat po,” she said. Isang milyong pasasalamat dahil sa Prior to this, Maja revealed sinamahan niyo ako sa journey na ito. Maja Salvador celebrates having over a million YouTube subscribers. that she now has over one million Noong naisipan ko na gumawa ng subscribers on YouTube. She YouTube channel mga beshies, Kapamilya actress Maja “Ako po ay taos pusong celebrated her milestone with a street ginawa ko ‘yon dahil mas gusto ko na Salvador bade farewell to ABS-CBN, nagpapasalamat sa mga taong food party with her family and makilala niyo po ba ako ng mas her home network for almost two walang sawang sumusuporta sa akin boyfriend Rambo Nunez. She personal pa, kalalimlaliman na decades, as she thanked the TV at sa ABS-CBN,” she said. documented the celebration in a pagkakakilala, ‘yung ganu’n,” she station for the support through the “Mga kapamilya, sasamahan YouTube vlog. added.
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www.filipinostar.org Pandemic be damned, Gabbi Garcia marks Gerald Santos gears up for milestone with gold play virtual concert, action flick button from YouTube

Gabbi Garcia proudly displays her Youtube Gold Play button. Actress Gabbi Garcia has thanked her subscribers who she said unlocked another achievement: a gold played a big part in why she received play button from YouTube. the award from YouTube. A Glod Play Button is given to “Cheers also to you guys. a YouTube channel that has reached Thank you for subscribing always and or surpassed 1,000,000 subscribers. thank you for always watching our Garcia’s namesake channel content,” Garcia said. already has 1,08 million subscribers as The actress-vlogger also of writing. thanked Ramos for helping her “WE DID IT GUYS! My gold produce content for her channel. play button is finally here!!! Thank Garcia said she actually you again from the bottom of my heart! wanted to give Ramos a Gold Play love you all!!! @khalilramos,” Garcia Button since they create vlogs captioned a photo of her holding the together, however it’s “too expensive” award. to request another one. Garcia did an unboxing of her “Khalil was so kind enough to Gerald Santos award in her “Live Wine Night” with just really say yes na name ko lang boyfriend Khalil Ramos on Tuesday. yung nasa button,” Garcia said.
After his cachet-boosting and Elisha Pontanares. In the livestream, the actress foray into theater by way of “Miss “‘The Great Shift’ is unlike the Saigon” (as Thuy) and “Sweeney usual online concert performed at Todd” (as Anthony), Gerald Santos is home,” Gerald said when asked why thrilled not only to return to the concertgoers, theater buffs and music YouTube sensation Zendee concert scene, but also to venture lovers should patronize the play-for- into the movies. pay show. “We’re doing it on an Rose Tenerefe gains ground The former grand champion actual concert stage, with a grand of “Pinoy Pop Superstar,” who turned piano, cello and violin to accompany on TikTok 29 in a lockdown birthday fete last us. People will be able to watch it on as with the “Dreamgirls” hit “And I Am May 15, will begin shooting his their phones, computers or even TV Telling You I’m Not Going.” scenes tomorrow—pandemic be sets, as if they’re watching a live With both becoming huge damned—in the role of Philippine telecast of an actual concert. I am hits, it led to Tenerefe landing an National Police Special Action Force also blessed to have internationally appearance on the GMA-7 show (SAF) commando Christopher Robert renowned Filipino performers as “Kapuso Mo, Jessica Soho” and, Lalan, the lone survivor of the grisly guests! What are the chan ces of eventually, “The Ellen Degeneres Mamasapano clash in Maguindanao gathering such a talented roster Show.” province that claimed the lives of 44 during a pandemic?” More, Tenerefe, was able to soldiers and about 23 Muslim rebels More than that, his well- secure a recording contract, releasing in 2015. curated repertoire has everything for an album in 2013. “I’m deeply honored and everyone, Gerald added: “They can It didn’t catch on though, and overwhelmed by the offer,” Gerald expect a mixture of pop, OPM, as well her career noticeably waned. said. “I cried just by reading the as Filipino and Broadway showtunes. Now, thanks to TikTok, she is script. And while I’m starting to feel This concert aims to uplift the spirit of Zendee Rose Tenerefe back in business. the pressure, I’m also thankful that our ‘kababayans,’ providing Singer Zendee Rose Tenerefe The 29-year-old went viral on this role landed on my lap. I will give entertainment with the feel of a live has injected a new lease of life to her the platform early this year parodying my 200 percent to give justice to it.” concert. showbiz career, latching on to a new the popular Sarah Geronimo hit The other knockout hit in “This is also for a very good social media platform. “Tala,” creating her own version Gerald’s one-two punch provides just cause. We have two beneficiaries: Not a few might still dubbed “Gala.” as big of a challenge for the Awpi (Artists Welfare Project Inc.) and remember Tenerefe. She has gained 4.9 million balladeer: He is headlining the virtual the Good Samaritan Foundation. In She first gained notice in 2012 followers on TikTok since. concert “The Great Shift” at 9 p.m. on my own little way, at least I can help as YouTube’s “Random Girl.” Happy as she is with her Oct. 17 (visit ticket2me.net) under the fellow performers and other people in It all started with a fan second wind, Tenerefe said she is direction of Antonino Rommel Ramilo, dire need of medical assistance, uploading on YouTube a video of her doing it simply for fun, hoping to with special guests Lea Salonga, particularly those displaced by the singing Whitney Houston’s version of inspire fellow Pinoys amid the Andrew Fernando, Joreen Bautista pandemic.”
the classic “I Will Always Love You,” ongoing pandemic.
www.filipinostar.org September 2020 The North American Filipino Star 17 Hands-on mom Solenn on show biz hiatus till year-end

Solenn Heussaff As far as show biz work is to get used to this (staying at concerned, 2020 is over for Solenn home). It’s still scary, but you have Heussaff. “[Year] 2020 is done for to put a foot back in,” she said. me, show biz-wise,” she declared. Looking back, Solenn is With a considerable grateful that she was able to give number of COVID-19 cases still birth last Jan. 1, two months before being recorded daily, health and the pandemic blew up and safety remain her priority, prompted strict quarantine especially now that she’s raising measures across the country. She her first child. But even if the had a delicate pregnancy, and she situation does eventually return to couldn’t imagine doing the things normal, she doesn’t see herself she did then now that there’s a taking on the same kind of health crisis. workload she used to juggle. “That difficult pregnancy “The pandemic has made required me to go to the hospital me rethink my job. I’m happy with every week or every two weeks for show biz, but I don’t want to be five months. Thank God I didn’t working six to seven days a week give birth in the middle of the as I did before. When life goes pandemic. If I were pregnant now, I back to normal, maybe I can allot would have been at risk all the three days a week for work,” she time,” she said. “It’s scary.” told the Inquirer in a recent video Being a first-time parent is interview arranged by the daunting enough. What more in Solenn Heussaff with her baby girl Thylane insurance company Philam Life, this kind of situation? support Solenn needs. “It’s just something he probably wouldn’t which she and her husband, Nico “When they announced the Nico and I taking care of the baby. get to enjoy if he had to go to the Bolzico, represent as celebrity lockdown last March, there were He looks after her in the office. “Since I’m staying at home ambassadors. many things going through my morning, so I can sleep in. And his now, I get to see my baby every For now, it’s all about her 9- head, because we have never had office is upstairs, so he can always hour, even if it’s my work hours,” month-old baby girl, Thylane. “I anything like this. You start visit us. We then take a walk with he said. want to be present in the early wondering, ‘What kind of world am her, bathe her, put her in the “We don’t know everything. years of her life, the first seven I bringing my child into?’” she inflatable pool,” she related. “Her We don’t know if we will be able to years at least. I want to focus more related. “Is this going to last for a room is my sanctuary.” protect our children 100 percent of on being a mother,” the 35-year-old week? Two weeks? And now we “I didn’t expect I would be the time. So, it’s good to have that GMA 7 actress said. have been in this for so long.” as hands-on as I am now, and I support, knowing where or who to While long-term projects “I’m afraid of anything that wouldn’t have it any other way,” go to when needed,” said Nico, like drama series are out of the has to do with Thylane. I have Solenn added. explaining the need to have “a question this year, she has done started feeding her food. But what Once in a while, if possible, variable” life insurance plan for quick, one-off shoots here and if she gets allergies? I’m afraid of Solenn visits her mom, so Thylane children. “I hope that never there. “We made sure everyone doing something wrong,” she said. can get used to seeing other faces. happens, but … it’s a tool that can was tested … You do have to start Fortunately, Nico is able to Like Solenn, Nico is making help parents raise their children getting out a bit, because it’s easy work from home and give all the the most of his time with Thylane— with less worries.”
www.filipinostar.org September 2020 18 The North American Filipino Star 'Sana all': Liza First-ever Miss Soberano, Bela Universe Philippines Padilla, Julia Barretto pageant will be both get fast response over traditional, virtual internet woes

From left: Julia, Liza and Bela at the 2019 ABS-CBN Ball. Kapamilya celebrities Bela DM." Padilla and Julia Barretto reacted Many of the stars' fans got on telecommunications giant excited for the exchanges between PLDT's initiative to provide Liza the telecommunications provider Soberano a faster internet and the three actresses. connection. "THANK YOU PLDT ambait In her Twitter account, Liza mo samen HAHAHAHAH," one recently criticized her Converge Twitter user said. internet provider for the slow "Hahahahhaha winner," connection. said another. Days after Liza tweeted, Other Twitter users, Miss Universe Philippines (MUP) organization announced that the PLDT provided her with fast however, alleged that the company internet. was only prompt and responsive coronation night will be aired on GMA on October 25. "Okay so @pldt came to my when it is the celebrities who post Miss Universe Philippines segments expected from a beauty house yesterday and hooked me the complaints. 2020 will push through despite the pageant, but watch out for a up with the best internet I have ever "Kapag sikat ka,mag tweet novel coronavirus disease 2019 fresher and insightful take. Our experienced in my whole 5 years of ka lang sa mga internet provider na (COVID-19) pandemic. team poured their heart and soul to living in this house. 300 MBPS. yan, nagkukumahog na sila sa pag In its official Facebook this and we are so excited to finally What a lifesaver. Lag? I don’t know ayos ng internet mo. pero pag account, Miss Universe Philippines unveil our work,” he said. her," Liza wrote. ordinaryong tao ka lang, (MUP) organization announced MUP National Director PLDT then replied to Julia's natawagan mo na lahat mg hotline that the coronation night will be Shamcey Supsup-Lee told "24 tweet, saying: "Hey there, Julia! nila, lahat ng email account aired on GMA on October 25. Oras" in a Tuesday interview that Came across your tweet and napadalhan mo na ng love letter “See Miss Universe this year's first ever MUP pageant wanted to check if everything’s a- pero wala pa ding response," a Philippines in a new light! The will mix both virtual and face-to- ok over there! Slide into our DM if Twitter user claimed. biggest online pageant series of face events, with some pre- you need any help." "Sis ipaglaban mo naman the Philippines premieres on pageant segments to be released Bela, meanwhile, said that yong mg PLDT users na September 27, 2020! It is an in episodes. PLDT should fix her internet nagbabayad din naman ng incredible look in the journeys of connection. maayos, pero trash customer the contenders culminating on the "PLDT, bekenemen! My pldt service natatanggap. Kapag artista main pageant night on October 25, wifi doesn’t reach 1 MBPS for special treatment nila," added 2020 to be aired on national TV!” downloading and/or uploading another user. the organization wrote. everytime I test it...ONE,” she said. "Unfortunately, for small, “We’re happy to officially “Less than 1 teh eh. Di ko ordinary people like us, we don't announce that Miss Universe nakikita ending ng mga earn enough respect pra installan Philippines 2020 will be aired this According to her, the pinapanuod koooo hahahah,” she ng service maski the use is for kids October 25 on GMA!” it wrote in international competition will push added. who have started school August another post. through since there is still no PLDT also replied to Bela, pa," said another. Jonas Gaffud, MUP creative advice from the Miss Universe saying: "Uh-oh! Don't worry, Bela! With many people studying and events director, said that Organization about a cancellation. Help is here! Just simply follow us and working from home nowadays traditional segments are expected RELATED: First ever Miss back so that we could resolve this due to the coronavirus pandemic, but viewers should watch out for Universe Philippines announces is no time. And oh, please don't a fast and reliable internet service twists. new finals date.
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www.filipinostar.org September 2020 The North American Filipino Star 19 Ferrier had been jailed in 2019. far from an airport. During her court appearance on RCMP said they didn't know if Ricin letter: Quebec woman charged Tuesday, Ferrier -- through an interpreter -- Ferrier lived at the condo, but added that with threatening the U.S. president asked for an identity hearing, which would there was a clear connection between her Brooklyn Neustaeter, Ben Cousins force the government to prove that she is and the home. CTVNews.ca Writer the person for whom the arrest warrant "There's a link between the female ublished Tuesday, September 22, 2020 was issued for, and a probable cause suspect that was arrested in Buffalo, New 7:28AM EDT hearing, which forces the government to York yesterday and this residence," RCMP TORONTO -- A Quebec woman prove there is sufficient cause to proceed Cpl. Charles Poirier said Monday, accused of sending envelopes containing in the matter. explaining to reporters in St-Hubert that the poisonous substance ricin to the White "She has a presumption of police had a search warrant for the House has now been charged with innocence and that'll be pursued further residence. threatening U.S. President Donald Trump. after today," Fonda Kubiak, the public An RCMP team dedicated to During a brief court appearance defender assigned to Ferrier, told reporters chemical threats and explosives is leading on Tuesday in Buffalo, N.Y., Pascale Ferrier outside the courthouse. the ongoing investigation, with support of Quebec had a plea of not-guilty entered Kubiak added that Ferrier could from local police and fire units. on her behalf. She is being held without be transferred to the District of Columbia Canadian law enforcement was bail and is due back in court on Sept. 28. after her hearing on Monday. called to help the FBI investigate after Ferrier, 53, wore a tan jail jumpsuit In Facebook and Twitter posts in American authorities found evidence the for the appearance, with handcuffs and a September, Ferrier also wrote "#killTrump" ricin-laced letter to the White House had chain around her waist. She was also to "give up and remove your application for and used similar wording as she did in the originated in Canada. wearing a blue mask over her face. this election." She allegedly wrote that the letter, calling him an "Ugly Clown Tyrant," Ricin is a deadly substance Timothy Lynch of the U.S. ricin was her "gift" to him and if it did not according to the affidavit. extracted from castor beans. It is a plant Attorney's Office in Buffalo told the court work, she would find a recipe for another Ferrier, originally from France, that is not restricted and is easy to grow. that Ferrier should remain detained in the poison or use her gun against the became a Canadian citizen in November With enough exposure, the poison can be United States given the allegations against president. 2015 and is a computer programmer, fatal within 36 to 72 hours. There is no her and out of concern she might flee. According to the affidavit, according to sources. specific test for exposure and no antidote. "The charge in the criminal fingerprints belonging to Ferrier were She moved back to Laval last This isn't the first time a U.S. complaint is a crime of violence," Lynch found on the envelope and the letter, as spring, weeks after being released from a president has been sent ricin. Letters told the court. "The defendant is a serious well as six similar envelopes and letters prison in Texas. containing the substance and addressed risk of flight." sent to addresses in Texas. Court documents show that in to former president Barack Obama were Ferrier was arrested at the New U.S. officials said the letter was 2019, she was charged with unlawfully intercepted on two separate occasions in York-Ontario border on Sunday. intercepted on Friday before reaching its carrying a weapon and knowingly using a 2013. According to an affidavit filed on destination. All mail for the White House is fake Texas driver’s license. According to In those cases, each of the Tuesday by an FBI bomb technician, sorted and screened at an offsite facility arrest records, Ferrier spent three months accused pleaded guilty to possession of a Ferrier mentioned that she may be "wanted before reaching the president’s official in jail. toxin for use as a weapon and received by the FBI" for the ricin letters during her residence. A team that specializes in sentences between 18 and 25 years in arrest at U.S. Customs. She was also During the investigation, the FBI biohazards swarmed a Montreal-area prison. carrying a loaded gun in her waistband at say they discovered that six additional condo on Monday morning, evacuating None of the charges against the time and had a knife on her person. letters containing ricin appeared to have several units as they looked for evidence Ferrier have been tested or proven in The affidavit also revealed been received in Texas in September. connected to the ricin-laced letter sent to court. portions of what was allegedly written in According to court documents, those the White House. the letters. letters "contained similar language" to the The home is located in a multi- In a letter addressed to Trump, letter that was sent to Trump and were sent unit building on Vauquelin Blvd. in St- the affidavit says, Ferrier told the president to people affiliated with facilities where Hubert, Que., bordering a forest and not 6430 Victoria, Montreal Sales valid on Tel.: 733-7816 Marché Duc Thanh Sept. 25-30, 2020

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