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 YEAR 13, No. 3 SEPTEMBER 2009 Home Paper of the 1999 Canadian Ethnic Journalists’ and Writers’ Club Winner for Best Editorial Toronto, Ontario
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This photo was taken bypro photographer and
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colum-nist MARIO DIMAIN duringthe Air Show of the Cana-dian Snow Birds at the Ca-nadian National Exhibitionmarking Labour Day onSept. 8.
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 Baka ma-T&T akodito
.”Not that Consul Gen-eral in Toronto AlejandroMosquera lacks diplomat-ic immunity, but this has
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MOSQUERA
become his standard hu-mor every time he calls theDepartment of Foreign Af-fairs (DFA) in Manila, thePhilippines.Mosquera told the
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that hewas extended -- in a way-- since he ended his termin June.He said he was told tostay until his replacementis appointed.Mosquera was told of a shortlist of persons whowould possibly take overhis post, to include former
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Consul General in LondonMario De Leon, Jr.De Leon now serves asDFA Acting Assistant Sec-retary for the Office of Fis-cal Management and chief coordinator of the Office of the Secretary.Up to late, Mosquerasaid he has not received anyadvice from Central Officeabout his successor.“I was supposed tohave been recalled back toManila in July,” Mosquerasaid, when his term of officelapsed at end-June.Consul Imelda Pan-olong, who also ended her term with the Consulate inToronto, has since assumedher new post as executivedirector of the DFA Officeof Middle East and AfricanAffairs.Mosquera said he had noidea as to when his exten-sion would be completed.“Sometimes, it happens.I know of cases when dip-lomats were told to stay intheir assignments. A consul-ar officer in Asia was onceextended for over a year,”he said.“There is that possibil-ity that exigencies dictatethe need for foreign serviceofficers, like the one whowill replace me, to stay onand finish important work inManila,” he added.Reassigning personnelwould be the prerogativeof the Secretary, Mosquerasaid.Meanwhile, he reportedthat the consulate had vali-
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dated 5,000 new registrantsunder the Overseas Absen-tee Voting (OAV) sign-up.This brought to between8,000 and 9,000 the num- ber of persons who availedthemselves of the OAV.The consular validationwas made from February toAugust in the consular jus-ridictions of Manitoba, Sas-katchewan and Ontario.Ontario included theGreater Toronto Area and allother places except Kingstonto Ottawa, which falls under the Philippine Embassy inOttawa.Mosquera hinted thiswas a good sign that manyFilipinos in Canada have become aware of the impor-tance of casting their votesin the Philippine PresidentialElection in May next year.
Have you seen that place, the place where no one exists? A place wherenothingness lives, and your most entrenching fears are gone. Do youknow of this place where bliss is forever? A place where yesterday istoday and tomorrow was now. A place so still, in such harmony that tocall it a utopia would only be but a mere vague description. I know thisplace deep within the far reaches of your mind. A place where nothingexists except for your greatest desires. A place where no one can takeanything from you, a place where you are free. Where your integrity iseverything and your foritude lays. A place where all your senses areheightened to a degree that can only be described as extraordinary.This place exists somewhere within, someplace you’ve never gone. Aplace where you truly are you.
A Place Where You Exist
By CHRISTIAN H.P. ALVAREZ
TOGETHER, FOREVER
by MARIO DIMAIN 
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UN Secretary-GeneralBan Ki-moon in his open-ing remarks on Sept. 22 tothe UN Climate ChangeSummit Plenary -- the larg-est-ever gathering of worldleaders on climate change -- urged world leaders to takeimmediate action to halt therise in global emissions.“Your presence bearswitness to the gravity of theclimate challenge. It is testa-ment to the opportunity Co- penhagen offers. Your deci-sions will have momentousconsequences. You have the power to chart a safer, moresustainable and prosperouscourse for this and futuregenerations. The power toreduce the emissions thatare causing climate change... to help the most vulner-able adapt to changes thatare already under way ... tocatalyze a new era of globalgreen growth. Now is your moment to act.”The UN Secretary-Gen-eral warned that greenhousegas emissions continue torise. “We will soon reachcritical thresholds.Conse-quences that we cannot re-verse. “Citing the warningsmade by world’s leadingscientists, the UN officialstressed that “we have lessthan ten years to avoid theworst-case scenarios pro- jected by the Intergovern-mental Panel on ClimateChange (IPCC).”The worst-case scenar-ios, Ban Ki-moon said, are becoming ever more likely.After visiting the Arc-tic early September, he ex- pressed his alarm over therapid pace of change.The Arctic, he warned,“could be nearly ice-free by2030.”The consequences of this rapid change in the Arc-tic, he stated, will be felt by people on every continent.“All across Africa – themost vulnerable continent – climate change threatensto roll back years of devel-opment gains.”“Climate change is the pre-eminent geopolitical
UN urges world leaders tohalt rising global emissions
By EDWIN C. MERCURIO
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