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YEAR 12, No. 4 OCTOBER 2008

Home Paper of the 1999 Canadian Ethnic Journalists’ and Writers’ Club Winner for Best Editorial

Toronto, Ontario

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Dancing To Be A Star

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Unconstitutional

INSIDE

Ooops & Bloops

G as is

Gas is

c h e a p ...

cheap ...

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2 0 1 0 R P p o lls :

2010 RP polls:

A w a te rs h e d

A watershed

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event? - 27

Philippine Supreme Court declares MOA-AD

H a llo w e e n s a f e , h a p p y t r ic k in ’ a n d t r e a t in ’

Halloween safe, happy trickin’ and treatin’

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(SEE PAGE 14)

A p p e a l to a ll G T A F ilip in o n e w s p a p e r o u tle ts

Appeal to all GTA Filipino newspaper outlets

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(SEE PAGE 5)

Donned as a fairy, an elf or a pumpkin babe

(right) or as an ogre or a rocketman (left), these

children - like many others in Canada - will take to the streets for the Oct. 31 Halloween trickin’ or treatin’. MANILA MEDIA MONITOR Photos

FVR to visit
Toronto for
Gawad Kalinga

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N o te s o n

Notes on

J o s ie ’s

Josie’s

C e le b ra te !

Celebrate!

c o n c e rt

concert

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L ig h t a n d m e d a ls

Light and medals

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The Philippine Supreme Court, voting 8-7, on Oct. 14 declared “contrary to law and the Constitu- tion” the Memorandum of Agreement on Ances- tral Domain (MOA-AD) signed in Kuala Lumpur by peace panel negotiators of the the Government of the Republic of the Philip- pines (GRP) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF).

In an 89-page decision penned by Justice Conchita Carpio Morales, the Court, granting the main and in-

By JAY B. REMPILLO

tervening petitions, en- joined the government and its agents from signing and executing the MOA-AD or similar agreements.

Likewise, they were di- rected to conduct public consultations in accordance with the right to informa- tion, with respect to any fur- ther peace negotiations with the MILF.

Grave abuse

“In sum, the Presiden- tial Adviser on the Peace Process committed grave abuse of discretion when he failed to carry out the per-

tinent consultation process, as mandated by Executive Order (EO) 3, Republic Act (RA) 7160, and RA 8371,” the High Court said.

“The furtive process by which the MOA-AD was de- signed and crafted runs contrary to and in excess of the legal authority, and amounts to a whimsical, capricious, oppressive, arbitrary and despotic exercise thereof,” it said.

“It illustrates a gross eva- sion of positive duty and a virtual refusal to perform the

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