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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 Halifax, Nova Scotia

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The Philippine Embassy in Ottawa and the Philippine Consulate General in Halifax conducted a consular outreach mission in Halifax, Nova Scotia, from 26 to 29 November 2020. The consular outreach mission provided passport, notarial, and citizenship-retention services to the Filipino diaspora in the Maritime provinces.

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Minister and Consul General Alan Deniega administers the oath to Filipinos retaining their Filipino citizenship in simple ceremony in Halifax.

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The Consular Team of the Philippine Embassy in Ottawa provided passport and other consular services to Filipinos residing in and near the Halifax Regional Municipality.

Advisory on Resumption of the Balikbayan Program

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Governor General Receives Credentials of Philippine Ambassador

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In a virtual ceremony hosted by Rideau Hall, Governor General Julie Payette of Canada formally received the Letter of Credence of Ambassador Rodolfo D. Robles in the afternoon of 30 November 2020. The ceremony, broadcast live on the social media channel of the Office of the Governor General, fully accredits Ambassador Robles as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Philippines to Canada.

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Screen grab from the YouTube Channel of Rideau Hall showing Governor General Julie Payette, Ambassador Rodolfo D. Robles, Chief of Protocol Stewart Wheeler, and Secretary to the Governor General Assunta Di Lorenzo.

In their cordial exchange, Ambassador Robles spoke highly of the contribution of the Filipino diaspora in Canada as frontline health care workers and essential services staff. Governor General Payette acknowledged the integration of the Filipino diaspora as “part of the Canadian fabric.”

There are almost one million Filipinos in Canada, the second largest diaspora after those in the United States of America.

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The official photo of the ceremony shortly after Governor General Payette received the Letter of Credence of Ambassador Robles. (Photo courtesy of MCpl Anis Assari, Rideau Hall © OSGG, 2020)

18-Day Campaign to End Violence Against Women (VAW), 25 November to 12 December 2020

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The Embassy of the Philippines in Canada joins the observance of the 18-Day Campaign to End Violence Against Women (VAW), 25 November to 12 December 2020.

PR 131 18 Day Campaign to End Violence Against Women VAW 25 November to 12 December 2020