Alec Regino

Freelance Journalist & Reporting Fellow

Canada

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Washington Post
Opinion | Another nail in the coffin of the Philippines' waning democracy

As the novel coronavirus pandemic continues to spread around the world, the Philippines is marching in lockstep with the United States and Brazil, fellow struggling democracies that are heading toward the edge of disaster. After dragging his feet during the initial phases of covid-19 - going as far as stating "there is nothing really to be extra scared of that coronavirus thing" in a Feb.

thestar.com
03/27/2022
Program to protect abused migrant workers retraumatizes many

Three years into the government's Open Work Permit for Vulnerable Workers (VWOWP) program, migrant workers and advocacy groups say it not only has failed to protect migrant workers but, in many cases, is retraumatizing them.

Pulitzer Center
06/30/2021
The Pandemic's Toll on Filipino Migrant Healthcare Workers in Canada

Despite the recognition of essential workers amidst the pandemic, the efforts of migrant care aides, nurses and caregivers-who are predominantly from nations like the Philippines-have been largely disregarded. In Canada, Filipinos constitute 34.4 percent of internationally trained nurses and 90 percent of migrant caregivers providing in-home care through Canada's caregiver program, amounting to 5.6 percent of the nation's total healthcare aide labor force.

thestar.com
10/27/2021
Systemic barriers keeping foreign nurses from filling shortages

While the majority of foreign nurses in Canada hail from the Philippines, a significant number of them work as caregivers due to systemic barriers within Canada's immigration policy. It's quite an open secret that migrant caregivers en masse are vastly overeducated and devalued in their work.

The Diplomat
The Problem With Wars on Drugs, From Nixon to Duterte

At about noon on January 18, Philippine time, just days before United States President-elect Donald Trump took his oath of office, another strongman of a much smaller nation, the Philippines, addressed his citizens in a speech at Cabanatuan City. He took aim at the Catholic Church, which recently condemned his war on drugs.

thestar.com
04/16/2022
How Calgary's settlement sector helped transform Canada's No. 1 Covid hotspot into a vaccine...

Northeast Calgary has the highest first dose vaccine coverage in the province, with 99.3 per cent of eligible residents vaccinated, differing greatly from the "unenviable" distinction it held in 2020 as a hotspot for COVID-19. Due to this distinction, the area's predominantly South Asian residents were erroneously scapegoated for the virus' spread in Alberta during the beginning of the pandemic.

MIR
10/26/2018
On Finding Yourself through DNA Testing

We all build an idea of what it means to be "me" through our roots. A few days ago, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren released a video of her family history and her DNA test results following ...