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Horoscope: What’s up in the new year?
YEAR 11, No. 7 JANUARY 2008
Home Paper of the 1999 Canadian Ethnic Journalists’ and Writers’ Club Winner for Best Editorial
Toronto, Ontario
Dancing To Be A Star
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The Philippine Press Club Ontario cites the Manila Media Monitor for raising the bar of excellence in Fili- pino community journalism in To- ronto.(See p. 28)
Welcome 2008
with a blast
INSIDE
Ooops & Bloops
Only
in
Canada
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Dividend of labor
migration -4
Going
coconuts
in San
Pablo
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Loonie to
slide, peso
to rise vs
US$ -33
Fireworks at the Sta. Lucia East
Mall in Pasig City, New Year’s Eve.
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