17 JUNE 2025, BURNABY, BC. PCG Vancouver’s One Country Team celebrated with the Filipino Community at the annual Pinoy Festival held at Swangard Stadium in Burnaby, BC held last 14 June 2025. The event was organized by Pinoy Festival Alliance Society, a registered non-profit with more than 70 member organizations, with support from various Filipino Community organizations and volunteers.
This edition of the event adopted the theme "We Rise" to signal the Filipino Community’s strength and resilience in the aftermath of the Lapu-Lapu Day tragedy. PCG Vancouver’s officers and staff, together with teams from the Migrant Workers’ Office - Vancouver and SSS - Vancouver, joined the parade to express its solidarity and support for the Filipino community as it celebrates Filipino Heritage Month for the whole of June. Also in attendance were government officials such as MP Greg Robertson; BC Premier David Eby, BC Speaker Raj Chouhan, and BC MLA Mable Elmore, and; city mayors Mike Hurley (Burnaby) and Ken Sim (Vancouver).
In her remarks, Consul General Jamoralin restated the Consulate’s commitment to serving the Filipino community in its jurisdiction. She also encouraged the community to continue supporting several of its ongoing initiatives such as the Vancouver Emergency Response Mapping database (VERMAP) and the upcoming Post-Arrival Orientation Seminar for Filipino Migrants, Workers, and International Students in July 2025.
During the event, the undersigned also received a traditional Korean ink painting from the Korean Cultural Society of BC as a symbol of the Korean community’s solidarity and its desire for continuing friendship and mutual growth between the Korean and Filipino communities.
The City of Burnaby in BC is home to thousands of persons of Filipino origin. In the 2021 Canadian census, the fifth most frequently reported ethnic or cultural origin was Filipino, with about 14,055 persons representing 5.7% of the city’s total population. END