FINAL May 2014:Filipino Star

Filipinos in Montreal celebrate 116th Philippine Independence Canadian image and help everyone to Montreal TV which will include some be successful in their adopted country, economic benefits to be outlined in the Canada. flyers to be distributed. A survey of In order to promote Mabuhay viewership will also be included. To Montreal TV, all members of the crew show our appreciation for everyone’s will participate actively in the actual participation, there will be some raffles broadcast of everything going on in with prizes to be given away. the park, starting with the parade in the Mark on your calendar - June streets, the parade of colors, folk 22, 2014 at MacKenzie King Park - a dances from different ethnic groups, day of meeting friends and enjoying the Holy Mass usually celebrated by fellowship and camaraderie that can the Filipino Catholic Mission, sports, unite our community. games, contests of some sort that may be spontaneously organized. The TV By Zenaida Kharroubi crew and other volunteers will also be offering membership in Mabuhay Will the Stanley come back to Montreal after more than 20 years? By the time this paper has been they must win two more consecutive distributed to our readers, the games to get ino the finals. Photo Past Independence Day celebration at MacKenzie King Park - James de la Paz, president of the Council Canadiens’ fate will have been known belowi shows the passion of some of Canadian Filipino Associations, usually organizes a parade, community picnic and other activities. as they are trailing the Rangers and Montreal hockey fans. The annual celebration of Productions, a company that started Philippine Independence is usually held last August 2013 and had its first close to the exact day of June 12th as it broadcast via a specialized ethnic was on June 12, 1898 when Filipinos television company called ICI won their independence from Spain. (International Channel/Canal Interna- Rain or shine, festivities are held at tional) and can be seen on Videotron MacKenzie King Park which start with a Channel 616 HD, Bell Fibe Channel parade around 11:30 a.m., followed by 1216 HD, as well as non-cable Channel various cultural and sports activities. 47. Every Friday at 7 p.m. Mabuhay This year, Philippine Indepen- Montreal TV brings to the Montreal dence Day will be celebrated on June community and suburbs a variety of 22, 2014 at the same location. As subjects that are of relevance to usual, a big crowd will converge in the Filipino-Canadians. Community events, park . Tents are rented or allocated to interviews of local talents and different associations and local celebrities, political leaders, businesses, in particular, Filipino owned professionals, businesses that provide restaurants will serve popular food that merchandise and services to the most people like even non-Filipinos community are coverd in the weekly who have developed a taste for exotic episodes. Special events such as the or Asian food. latest fund raising for the Yolanda For the first time, this victims in the Philippines were also Independence Day will be more included in its weekly programming.It is memorable as it will be covered by a the goal of this community television Fans celebrate the series win by the Habs outside the Bell Centre following Game community television crew of Filcan TV company to promote a positive Filipino- 7 on Wednesday May 14, 2014.Photograph by: Pierre Obendrauf, The Gazette 2 The North American Filipino Star May 2014 DEFICIENT INFRASTRUCTURE HURTS Featured Opinion ECONOMIC GROWTH, PRODUCTIVITY (A Commentary by Ralph Goodale, MP for Wascana ) Strategic alliances May 26, 2014 - It was during access. obviously to begin tapping oil and the 2011 federal election that Stephen May 29, 2014 (Global Balita) It was supposed to be fully natural gas in the area. Luckily, both Harper started pledging certain ON DISTANT SHORE functional by April 1st, but two months protagonists opted to use water expensive tax cuts that would later local communities are still not By Val G. Abelgas cannons instead of real cannons. overwhelmingly favour the wealthy. He called it "income-splitting" permitted to file their applications, with With China increasingly Earlier, Vietnamese fishing vessels and it sounded politically attractive. the 2014 construction season slipping aggressive in asserting its territorial collided with a Chinese frigate that was But what he didn't reveal was that only by. Some high priority municipal claims over most of the South China, it part of the convoy towing the oilrig. a small fraction of Canadians would projects have been excluded from is inevitable that its smaller neighbors In 1974, the Chinese took qualify -- 85% of all families (i.e., most eligibility, and there are other new would form strategic defense alliances control of the Paracels, which are well of those at middle and lower income limitations on how local governments to protect themselves from the region’s within the 200-mile economic zone of Vietnam, after a brief battle that resulted levels) would get little or nothing from can use BCF dollars. in the death of 54 Vietnamese troops. Mr. Harper's scheme. Shinzo Abe and Aquino Perhaps most problematic, That was the problem that provincial governments and others caused the late Jim Flaherty to openly "government entities" are now in direct question both the cost and the fairness competition with municipalities for of income-splitting. whatever lesser amounts of money eventually become available under the And there was another BCF. Mr. Harper refuses to provide a problem too. According to Mr. Harper, clear commitment on what share of bully. before income-splitting could be that funding local municipalities can The Philippine government was implemented, the big new deficit that expect. right in seeking strategic alliances with he himself created had to be Japan, Vietnam and, of course, the eliminated by 2015. There's not a Cutting and complicating United States. After forging a defense credible economist in this country who federal support for public infrastructure accord with Japan, the Philippines agreed with that artificial deadline -- is not good public policy. signed last week a roadmap towards a Shinzo Abe and Aquino only Mr. Harper, and entirely for his strategic defense partnership with The Chinese have also been own election campaign purposes. At a time when Canada's Vietnam, China’s former ally. slowly occupying islands claimed by the economic growth rate is just barely Philippines that are well within the Nguyen Tan Dung and Aquino Here again, Mr. Flaherty tried mediocre -- trailing as many as 140 country’s 200-mile economic zone. In to give himself some wiggle room, other countries -- with unemployment 1993, the Chinese started occupying talking about a balanced budget "in the stubbornly stuck close to 7% and Panganiban or Mischief Reef and last medium term", meaning 2015 or 16 or youth joblessness twice that high, Mr. year began occupying Panatag or 17. But Mr. Harper quickly and publicly Harper is impairing what his own Scarborough Shoal after a long insisted on the earlier deadline. And Finance department says is the most standoff. In May last year, the Chinese that set off a flurry of ill-conceived cuts cost-effective way to help drive more sent a fleet of fishing vessels, two large jobs and growth. civilian ships and a frigate to waters to front-line programs and services -- near the Ayungin Shoal. And early this search-and-rescue, food inspection, Moreover, Statistics Canada month, the Chinese were found to be immigration, trade, EI and veterans has produced a valuable analysis of reclaiming land and building an airstrip offices, emergency preparedness, the connection between infrastructure over the Mabini Reef, which is very close military procurement, community pastures, an historic tree farm ... the list and productivity. Nguyen Tan Dung and Aquino to Zambales. Despite repeated protests, goes on. The agreement presents the Over the past half-century, start of a united front against Chinese Chinese officials insisted that they have Among the most serious cuts about half of the productivity gains in incursions in the disputed isles in the the right to do anything in the disputed were those affecting community-based Canada's private sector can be South China Sea, almost 90% of which islands because they were rightfully theirs. public infrastructure across the attributed to investments in public is being claimed by the Chinese using infrastructure. Since the 1960's, our an ancient map dating back to the time It is increasingly obvious that country. While popular programs like China could not be deterred by protests the GST rebate to municipalities and best overall improvements in of the dynasties. productivity have been recorded Both the Philippines and and the filing of legal cases before the the sharing of federal gas tax revenues during those periods of greatest Vietnam are embroiled in escalating international courts in its bid to take -- initiated in previous Liberal budgets expansion in public infrastructure disputes with China over oil and marine control of the South China Sea, which is in 2004 and 05 -- were continued, the resources-rich areas in the South China critical to its goal of becoming a world government's flagship infrastructure . To get what he thinks will be Sea. superpower by 2025. investment (known as the "Building the political sizzle of a future tax cut for Vietnamese ships recently The 1.7 million square Canada Fund" (BCF)) was slashed by engaged in a battle of water cannons kilometers of the disputed South China 87%. the most wealthy, Stephen Harper is with Chinese coast guard vessels near apparently prepared to compromise the Paracel Islands when the Chinese To camouflage the impact of jobs, growth and productivity gains for See Page 23 Strategic Alliances pulled a gigantic oilrig to the area that cut, the Harper government has the vast majority of Canadians -- gone to extraordinary lengths to especially the middle-class.

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