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PHILIPPINE NATIONAL ELECTIONS 2025

Registered Filipino overseas voters (in Posts/Countries adopting online voting) may vote online in the May 12, 2025 elections.

To participate, you must be pre-enrolled as an online voter. Pre-enrolment for online voting via the COMELEC Voting Portal is from March 10 to May 7, 2025.

The 30-day overseas voting period is from 13 April 2025 until 12 May 2025, at 7:00PM Philippine Standard Time.

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EMBASSY HOLDS OUTREACH MISSION IN MONTREAL

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16 July 2018 – The Philippine Embassy in Ottawa conducted a consular outreach mission to Montreal on 14 and 15 July 2018 to provide consular services to Filipinos there as well as provide them with the opportunity to register as overseas voters. The consular outreach mission was held at the Ruby Foo’s Hotel.

The Embassy team, composed of First Secretary Eric R. Aquino, Second Secretary Jeffrey P. Salik, and Consular Assistants Armi A. Santos, Ma. Teresa B. Bragais and Noel E. Sancon, processed a total of 251 consular services during the outreach mission and registered 14 new overseas voters. END

Financial Literacy and Entrepreneurship Seminar in Montreal, Quebec

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16 July 2018, Ottawa. The Philippine Embassy in Ottawa successfully conducted an Entrepreneurship and Financial Literacy Seminar on 14 July 2018 in Montreal attended by members of the Filipino Community availing of consular services being provided by the Embassy. The seminar was conducted by Second Secretary Jeffrey Salik.

This Entrepreneurship and Financial Literacy Seminar is part of a series of seminars being conducted by the Philippine Embassy in Ottawa to cultivate an entrepreneurial sprit among the Filipino Diaspora under its jurisdiction. The Embassy recently held a similar session last April in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island; Moncton, New Brunswick; Ottawa, Ontario; and in Hamilton, Bermuda last May.

Based on the 2016 census conducted by Statistics Canada in 2016, there were 37,910 Filipinos living and working in Quebec, almost 95% of them are based in Montrea006C. END

Photo caption: Second Secretary Jeffrey Salik explains strategies on how to save money and to set-up a business in Montreal, Quebec and in the Philippines.

Embassy Executive Takes Oath on Promotion

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12 July 2018- Mr. Jeffrey P. Salik takes his oath of office on his promotion to the rank of First Secretary. His wife, Gessine B. Salik, witnessed the simple ceremony before Charge d’ Affaires, a.i. Francisco Noel R. Fernandez, III at the Chancery’s Mindanao Hall.

Filipino Prodigy Dazzles Audience at Sentro Rizal Ottawa

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03 July 2018- Johann Derecho dazzled his audience at Sentro Rizal Ottawa when he performed, among others, the Rhapsody in Blue with intense enthusiasm and passion.

Johann is a young Filipino-Canadian musician who placed first in many prestigious piano competitions in Ontario. He came to Sentro Rizal Ottawa with his parents on a brief tour of Ottawa. Personnel of the Philippine Embassy in Ottawa witnessed his performance.