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A symphony of culture
There’s a beautiful rhythm building in our community! The Filipino Music and Arts Association of Canada Inc. (FMAACI) has just revealed its 2026 flagship season, and it’s shaping up to be a warm, vibrant invitation to celebrate the ties that bind us all together.
Gift of Love & Hope
Gift of Love & Hope hosts second Annual Walk for Awareness The Gift of Love & Hope Inc. invites Manitobans to join its Second Annual Walk for Awareness on Sunday, September 28, 2025, at Kildonan Park. This inspiring community event unites families, friends, and advocates in support of the one in six Canadians affected by infertility. Last year’s inaugural walk raised nearly $8,000, launching Manitoba’s first fertility grant program and awarding its first-ever grant to a local couple.
Everyone has a story to tell
This blog was based on a conversation that DJ had with Paul Morrow and Sarah Archdeacon. Our conversations moved across a number of topics and demonstrated how passionate DJ is as a dancer, teacher and the Associate Artistic Director of Corali. For DJ, dancing is a profound art, one where changes takes place. “Everyone has stories to tell”, DJ describes the power of dancing and how it enables him to tell stories.
Nora Aunor • Farewell to the Superstar
Nora Aunor, born Nora Cabaltera Villamayor, one of the most beloved and influential figures in Philippine entertainment history, passed away on April 16, 2025, due to acute respiratory failure. She was 71. Aunor was laid to rest on April 22 at the Libingan ng mga Bayani with full state honours, following a state memorial service at the Metropolitan Theater.
Non-Invasive Systemic Blood Pressure Measurement Wait Period Error Mitigation
The authors have declared no competing interest. Funding received from Most Marvellous Company Ltd. I confirm all relevant ethical guidelines have been followed, and any necessary IRB and/or ethics committee approvals have been obtained.
Dealing with Misinformation Surrounding Political Conflict
In the weeks since war began between Israel and Hamas, social media has been taken over with images and stories of attacks, many of which proved false. For example, within hours of Hamas’ surprise attack on Oct. 7, 2023, thousands of social-media users shared screen grabs from a popular video game as if depicting real scenes of violence against Israeli troops in Gaza.
SIFT: As misinformation swirls in the war on Gaza, a nifty acronym could help tell real from fake
In the month since war began between Israel and Hamas, social media has been taken over with images and stories of attacks, many of which proved false. For example, within hours of Hamas’ surprise attack on October 7, screen grabs from a popular video game were shared by thousands of social media users as if depicting real scenes of violence against Israeli troops in Gaza.
How to deal with visual misinformation in wartime
In the three weeks since war began between Israel and Hamas, social media has been taken over with images and stories of attacks, many of which proved false. For example, within hours of Hamas’ surprise attack on Oct. 7, 2023, screen grabs from a popular video game were shared by thousands of social media users as if depicting real scenes of violence against Israeli troops in Gaza.
Mexico's Day of the Dead: the making of the iconic symbol 'La Catrina'
This week Mexicans will celebrate Día de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead. A feature of all the events will be countless reproductions of a garish skeleton with a wide, toothy grin, wearing an extravagant hat. Known as “La Catrina,” the image can be traced to José Guadalupe Posada, a Mexican engraver who died in obscurity in 1913. His broadsides featuring uncanny skeletons were sold for pennies to working-class Mexicans.
'Delusional fever dream': Conservatives react to Mike Pence dropping from race
Mike Pence on Saturday dropped his bid for the 2024 Republican nomination, citing the Bible. His fellow candidates and other political insiders were quick to react to the unexpected news. Pence's announcement came just before his former boss, Donald Trump, spoke at a Nevada event. The reactions to Pence's campaign suspension ranged from caring to mocking. POLL: Should Trump be allowed to run for office?
UAW, Stellantis reach tentative agreement
DETROIT — The United Auto Workers and Stellantis NV have reached a tentative agreement toward ending a 44-day strike, according to a source familiar with the information. The agreement, whose wording is being finalized, mirrors the economics of the tentative deal the union reached with Ford Motor Co. earlier this week, according to the source who only could speak on the condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to do so publicly. For customer support contact support@rawstory.com.
UN agency 'immensely worried' after losing contact to staff in Gaza
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) has lost contact with its staff in Gaza amid the Israeli bombardment of the coastal strip. UNRWA Commissioner General Philippe Lazzarini said he had lost contact with the "vast majority" of his team. "This makes me immensely worried for colleagues and their families." He said he sincerely hoped his message would reach staff.
Israel Defense Forces continue expanding ground attacks in Gaza
After expanding its ground operations in Gaza, Israel's army said on Saturday it had identified and attacked several terror cells in the area. "Since early Friday evening, combined combat forces of armour, combat engineers and infantry have been operating on the ground in the northern Gaza Strip," the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said. "As part of the operation, IDF soldiers identified terrorist cells attempting to launch anti-tank missiles and mortar shells and struck them.
At least 32 dead in major traffic accident in Egypt
A collision involving a passenger bus and several cars on a highway in Egypt killed 32 people on Saturday, the country's Health Ministry said. Sixty-three others were injured in the accident that happened on the Cairo-Alexandria desert road, the ministry added in an online statement. Earlier Saturday, state-run newspaper al-Ahram reported that investigations revealed an oil leak from a passing car led to a collision among a large number of vehicles with several of them catching fire.
In Israel-Hamas War, A Social Media Tussle Between Truth And Fiction
In the three weeks since war began between Israel and Hamas, social media has been taken over with images and stories of attacks, many of which proved false. For example, within hours of Hamas’ surprise attack on October 7, 2023, screen grabs from a popular video game were shared by thousands of social media users as if depicting real scenes of violence against Israeli troops in Gaza.
Dozens of elephants mysteriously dropped dead in Zimbabwe. Now, researchers know why.
Several years ago, dozens of elephants mysteriously dropped dead in Zimbabwe, a landlocked country in southern Africa. Now, researchers finally know why. Over several months of 2020, 35 African elephant carcasses were discovered in the Kavango–Zambezi conservation area, which encompasses five countries and is home to Africa’s largest population of elephants.
Whether in War-torn Ukraine, Laos, or Spain - Kids Have Felt Compelled To Pick Up Crayons & Put Their Experiences To Paper
The remarkable fact is that children still draw pictures during war. Their expressions are invaluable for documenting war and its impact, and it’s important to study them. “They still draw pictures!” So wrote the editors of an influential collection of children’s art that was compiled in 1938 during the Spanish Civil War. Eighty years later, war continues to upend children’s lives in Ukraine, Yemen, and elsewhere.
Champions League final: France blames Liverpool fans for its own ineptitude
No, Monsieur Darmanin, the blame for the turmoil at the Champions League final in Paris does not lie with the Liverpool fans. It lies with you and your unruly, ill-prepared police force. No sooner had the game between Liverpool and Real Madrid concluded on Saturday night, with defeat for the English club by one goal to nil, than Gérald Darmanin, the French interior minister, unburdened himself on the cause of the chaos and the response of his officers.
Kissinger's right - punishing Putin won't help Ukraine
In the UK and the US, the invasion of Ukraine has led to a dispute about geopolitics, and the wrong side might be winning. The contenders are Henry Kissinger and the Skibbereen Eagle. In 1898, the editor of that newspaper, one Frederick Potter, warned the Czar of all the Russias that the Eagle had its eye on him. Potter enjoyed wagging his finger at emperors: a harmless pursuit, in those days when his freedom of speech was guaranteed by the British Empire and the Royal Navy.
Books Digest - The Year of Miracles and Raven Smith's Men
Saffron Swire Mourning the death of her partner John, the cookery writer Ella Risbridger found solace in the sanctuary of the kitchen.
Stop and Look - The Isle of the Dead by Arnold Böcklin (1880)
We seem to be living through apocalyptic times, and the art of the Symbolists such as Arnold Böcklin, fraught with anxiety and foreboding, offers congenial, if not always agreeable, subjects for contemplation at the moment. In the last decades of the nineteenth century, when Britain was reaching the height of her Imperial power and Germany building up its rival industrial and military strength, Europe was becoming more and more aware of the complexities of human life and the human mind.
The Chancellors review - A must-read let down by one-sided thinking
Sir Howard Davies has probably the best calibrated political antennae of anyone I’ve ever met. His political judgements are invariably shrewd and he fully understands the interplay of politics and administration, having worked in the Foreign Office, Treasury, McKinsey, CBI, the Bank of England and the City. He is, then, ideally placed to write about some of the key economic controversies of the past quarter-century in his new book, The Chancellors.
Weeding out the woke poseurs from the real gardeners at Chelsea
Just as the Wimbledon fortnight inspires lapsed tennis players to pick up their rackets, the Chelsea Flower Show unearths the nation’s inner gardeners. I had two in my house this week, three if you count my husband, and as I, a non-gardener, listened and observed, I was struck by the difference between an arriviste horticulturist and the real thing. On one couch sat my sister-in-law who knows her hostas from her helianthuses and is green-fingered to the tips of her (often chipped) nails.
Boris, Brexit, and still the SNP can't persuade Scotland to break with Britain
I visited Scotland several times during the pandemic, most notably for last year’s Holyrood Parliament elections. It was a bleak experience each time: shops closed, no service in hotels, compulsory mask wearing — all imposed with a greater unsmiling steeliness than in England. This week it was a pleasure to return to Edinburgh to find the capital city coming back to some semblance of normal life. Foreign tourists are back, especially the Americans. Stations and airports are packed.
What to Watch This Week
Welcome to our weekly What To Watch television and streaming guide. This week features The Queen: 70 Years in Her Own Words, PRU, New Elizabethans with Andrew Marr, Goo: Ga, Prehistoric Planet, and The Crown Jewels.
Cricket has finally become a truly global game
The Times, Scottish edition at least, had a piece in it this week about a young Scottish cricketer, Ollie Davidson, who first played for his father’s club Stirling County — well, for its third — when he was only eight. Now, aged seventeen, he is in the Scotland squad about to play four ODIs against the USA and the United Arab Emirates in, of all places, Texas. Cricket in Texas. Well, that’s global cricket today. There are people who think cricket of little account in Scotland.
If Boris Johnson finds his Dr Jekyll side, the Tories could win again
It is safe to say that no British government has ever suffered from such downright incoherence as Boris Johnson’s administration. Governments have faced bigger crises, have performed more calamitously or have acted even more irresponsibly; but none has laboured under an identity crisis more extreme than the present Number 10 regime. It says Conservative on the label, it identifies as redistributive in policy and it screams expediency in its every action.
Boris Johnson rigs the system by tweaking Ministerial Code
If you thought ministerial standards under Boris Johnson’s watch could not sink any lower, think again. Today, Downing Street published a watered-down version of the Ministerial Code, effectively allowing ministers to avoid resigning if they fall foul of the decrees in the bible of parliamentary procedure. In the updated foreword, the Prime Minister said it is “disproportionate to expect that any breach [from ministers], however minor, should lead automatically to resignation or dismissal”.
Is Rishi Sunak’s cost-of-living crisis package un-Conservative?
Many are now asking whether the Treasury’s latest package of measures to tackle the cost-of-living crisis is “un-Conservative”. Some are also wondering if we should worry about the impact on inflation. My short answer to both questions is “no”. But there is still a lot here to make me uncomfortable too. To begin with, though, there is nothing un-Conservative about helping the most vulnerable in a crisis. In the current circumstances, simple cash payments may be the best way to do this.
What Russia’s Black Sea blockade means for the global food crisis
Russian naval forces have blockaded the Ukrainian coastline on the Black Sea, preventing Ukraine’s exports from leaving the country. With Ukrainian produce normally exported worldwide, the blockade could impact global food prices and supply for years to come. Here’s what you need to know.
It’s time to call the Ukraine war a genocide
Since the beginning of the crisis in Ukraine, the world has watched unspeakable horrors carried out by the Russian military. The scenes from towns such as Bucha, Irpin, and Mariupol have been burned into the collective memories of those plugged into Western media. And yet few have dared to call this conflict what it truly is – a genocide.
No growth, no plan - just inflation
You’re reading Reaction. To get Iain Martin’s weekly newsletter, columnists including Tim Marshall, Maggie Pagano and Adam Boulton, full access to the site and invitations to member-exclusive events, become a member HERE. Listen to what the government is saying, and bet on the opposite happening. If not quite a golden rule, it is a handy guide, and nowhere is it more true currently than in the purported policy of levelling up.
Eamonn Holmes - Favourite Things
Eamonn Holmes is a Northern Irish broadcaster and journalist who has been appearing on television and radio for 41 years. From 1993 to 2005 he co-presented GMTV, before moving on to Sky News Sunrise for the next eleven years. From 2006, Eamonn and his wife Ruth became the popular hosts of This Morning which they presented until 2021. He currently presents GB News’ breakfast broadcast alongside Isabel Webster.
Rishi Dishi: Chancellor rides to rescue with helicopter money
Every household in Britain is to receive hundreds of pounds off their energy bills in the government’s £15 billion rescue package to help ease the cost of living crunch. After months of wrangling over strategy, Rishi Sunak finally announced a support package which will distribute £400 to every household irrespective of income, but a payment of £650 to those who are means-tested and receiving benefits. In addition, pensioners on low incomes will be offered £300 alongside the Winter Fuel Payment.
The public wants gene-editing regulated - the government should listen
On the first day of his premiership, Boris Johnson vowed to “liberate” genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in farming and food from stuffy EU regulations. The declaration was a little vague on details but was widely viewed as a Brexit win; a very public display of how different modern Britain’s goals and aspirations are from those of the stuffy old EU.
jeremy clarkson Russian press UK heading for cannibalism
A Moscow news outlet owned by ultra-orthodox oligarch Konstantin Malofeev has written that the UK is preparing for starvation and that pundits are suggesting outbreaks of cannibalism are on the cards. The TsargardTV article – headlined “Cold, hunger, cannibalism: London fell into its own Ukrainian pit” – explained that British politicians are warning of mass starvation and that some British cities have declared a state of emergency.
Norwegian feminist faces jail for saying a biological male cannot be a lesbian
Whether in war-torn Ukraine, Laos or Spain, a lot can be learnt from the art created by kids living in war-torn regions across place and time.
Texas shooting is the result of fantasy politics
#EnoughIsEnough is trending… again… just as America attempts to come to terms with a body count that might yet eclipse the last body count it came to terms with. It’s difficult, at times like these, not to descend into cliché. Life increasingly feels like it is lived in shorthand. Even if the details change, the fundamentals stay the same. This time it is elementary school children shot dead in their classroom alongside their teachers.
Partygate: Boris does another Houdini
After months of hype, and a tumultuous period of leaks, denials and fines, perhaps it was inevitable that the Sue Gray report would fall flat, writes Mattie Brignal. Yes, the 37-page document paints a damning picture of a Downing Street completely divorced from the caution towards Covid, and Covid rules, that the rest of the country exercised at the time.
Is Victor Orban's new war emergency a calculated ploy?
Hungary may be blocking sanctions on Russian energy and refusing to send military assistance to Ukraine, but its response to war across the border is anything but relaxed.
A4 waists and coin-layered collarbones: Inside China’s eating disorder crisis
In countries around the world, body-positive moments are cropping up that aim to dismantle unrealistic beauty standards by promoting all shapes and sizes. Yet in countries like China, thinness is still prized as the ultimate beauty ideal; the daintier you are, the more desirable. A “good woman”, it is commonly believed within Chinese society, “cannot be over 100 jin” which equates to roughly 50kg. Historically, China’s “perfect woman” is a paragon of youthfulness, whiteness and svelteness.
Elizabeth Line: an engineering marvel worthy of the hype
Standing in the centre of Soho Square Gardens, admiring what was once one of London’s most fashionable areas, you will likely be totally oblivious to what is happening underneath your feet. Twenty-four metres below street level, running under countless listed townhouses, the trains of the new Elizabeth line are hurtling, almost silently, at speeds of around 60 mph – revolutionising rail travel in the capital, and cutting commute times for those living outside London.
Elephant in the room ignored at fractious PMQs
You’re reading Reaction. To get Iain Martin’s weekly newsletter, columnists including Tim Marshall, Maggie Pagano and Adam Boulton, full access to the site and invitations to member-exclusive events, become a member HERE. Boris Johnson vowed to “put our arms around the country”, as the government scrambles to finalise a package of measures aimed at alleviating the cost-of-living crisis.
Profit is an afterthought for woke corporations
“He blasphemeth!” The world of banking and extraneous hordes of woke and politically correct enforcers were reduced to biblical outrage after Stuart Kirk, Head of Responsible Investment at HSBC Asset Management, suggested at a Financial Times event that the financial perils posed by climate change might have been exaggerated. Within minutes, the scribes and pharisees on Twitter were tearing their beards and rending their garments in derangement at the articulation of this heresy.
No, the police are not institutionally racist
You’re reading Reaction. To get Iain Martin’s weekly newsletter, columnists including Tim Marshall, Maggie Pagano and Adam Boulton, full access to the site and invitations to member-exclusive events, become a member HERE. The latest organisation embarking on what appears to be a national apology tour is the police.
Sue Gray partygate report finally published - read in full
Whether in war-torn Ukraine, Laos or Spain, a lot can be learnt from the art created by kids living in war-torn regions across place and time.
Should Ukraine strike a peace deal?
As the war in Ukraine drags on into its fourth month, there is still no end in sight. Russian forces launched a major offensive today around Sievierodonetsk in Eastern Ukraine, in an effort to encircle Ukrainian troops. The area surrounding the city is the most easterly point of Ukrainian-held territory in the Donbas. Sievierodonetsk has come under intense artillery and missile fire in recent weeks. Capturing it would be a big prize for Russia in its push to seize control of the Donbas.
Is Boris planning to do a Blair to survive partygate?
You’re reading Reaction. To get Iain Martin’s weekly newsletter, columnists including Tim Marshall, Maggie Pagano and Adam Boulton, full access to the site and invitations to member-exclusive events, become a member HERE. Boris Johnson could try to mimic Tony Blair’s “masochism strategy” to cling onto power after Sue Gray’s full report into the Partygate scandal is finally published.
UK's gene-edited crops could curb the global food crisis
Free from the shackles of Brussels bureaucracy, Britain’s farmers will soon be able to start growing gene-edited crops which should go a long way in helping to solve the current global food crisis. Ministers will table legislation this week that will allow farmers and companies to grow the ingenious crops – made possible by Britain’s departure from the European Union.
MPs savage Foreign Office over botched Afghan withdrawal
You’re reading Reaction. To get Iain Martin’s weekly newsletter, columnists including Tim Marshall, Maggie Pagano and Adam Boulton, full access to the site and invitations to member-exclusive events, become a member HERE. Sue Gray’s impending Partygate report is dominating the Westminster news agenda. But a damning inquiry by MPs calling for the resignation of one of the government’s chief mandarins over the UK’s botched evacuation of Afghanistan should not go unnoticed.
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