{"id":2705,"date":"2017-08-20T01:36:42","date_gmt":"2017-08-20T05:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canadianvisa.com\/news\/?p=2705"},"modified":"2018-03-08T23:55:48","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T04:55:48","slug":"torontos-filipino-community-celebrates-with-song-and-adobo-at-taste-of-manila-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/canadianvisa.com\/news\/torontos-filipino-community-celebrates-with-song-and-adobo-at-taste-of-manila-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto’s Filipino community celebrates with song and adobo at Taste of Manila festival"},"content":{"rendered":"

Toronto’s Filipino community celebrates with song and adobo at Taste of Manila festival<\/h1>\n

In Toronto’s Little Manila this weekend, barbecue, adobo and karaoke delight the throngs filling the city’s Wilson Heights neighbourhood.<\/p>\n

Last year, festival organizers say the event drew 350,000 visitors \u2014 about as many Filipino residents living and working here in Toronto.<\/p>\n

Many of those residents came to Canada looking for “greener pastures,” as festival host Carl Diaz, 31, put it. He landed in Aurora, Ont. six years ago through a foreign workers program to become a caregiver.<\/p>\n

He’s now living in Toronto, studying to become a registered nurse. While he’s seeking citizenship next year, he says the Philippines is never far from his heart.<\/p>\n

“It’s overwhelming to be here and be connected with people,” he said.<\/p>\n

Congressman John Bertiz flew in from the Philippines for the festival, aiming to speak to overseas workers-turned-permanent residents like Diaz, wanting to remind them that the Filipino government has been working to make life better back home.<\/p>\n

The country’s foreign worker program allows Filipino nationals who want to work abroad to apply for sponsorship through agencies or from Canadian residents. Workers often come to Canada on short-term permits.<\/p>\n

For Diaz, it offered the first step into a new country, a place he eventually wanted to call home. Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n

Toronto’s Filipino community celebrates with song and adobo at Taste of Manila festival<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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