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FILIPINOS KEEP CHRISTMAS NOVENA TRADITION

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SIMBANG GABI

Filipino participants receive communion from Rev. Fr. Dominic Lim, OFM.

The Philippine Embassy in Ottawa, led by Chargé d’Affaires, a.i Francisco Noel Fernandez III, sponsored and participated in the first Simbang Gabi mass last Saturday, 15 December, at the Assumption Parish Church in Ottawa. The mass was officiated by Rev. Fr. Dominic Lim, OFM.

The Simbang Gabi masses provide an opportunity for the Filipino diaspora in Ottawa to keep the Filipino Christmas novena tradition alive. The Philippine Embassy sponsors its first mass each year.

A salo-salo followed the mass where participants shared traditional Christmas fares, including pansit, lumpiang Shanghai, hamon, and cassava cake.

The Philippine Embassy in Ottawa Conducts Entrepreneurship and Financial Literacy Seminars in Kingston, Ontario

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Kingston

Clockwise from the top: First Secretaries and Consuls Eric Aquino and Jeffrey Salik listen to the presentations of Filipino entrepreneurs from Kingston, Toronto, and Montreal regarding their respective businesses on 05 December 2018 in Kingston; Mr. Salik talks about the Embassy’s Entrepreneurship and Financial Literacy programs as well as economic diplomacy plans for next year; Ms. Lucita Abinuman-Mariano, President of Philippine Business Council in Kingston (7th from left), pose with Consuls Aquino and Salik and Filipino entrepreneurs. (Photo credits: Mr. Norberto R. Mandin, Jr. of Canadian Pinoy Radio – Montreal)

PHILIPPINE AMBASSADOR TO CANADA MEETS WITH CANADA-PHILIPPINES PARLIAMENTARY FRIENDSHIP GROUP

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PH Canada PFG

First row, L-R: MP Alice Wong, Ambassador Garcia, and MP Kevin Lamoureux, Chair of the Friendship Group; Second row, L-R: First Secretary and Consul Greg Marie Mariño, MP Wayne Stetski, MP Michael Levitt, and MP David Graham