"Nanay, mayroong isang salita na ginagamit ng mga tao dito na ang ibig sabihin 'sumbrero,’” my 10-year-old daugh­ter told me one day dur­ing our first win­ter in Vancouver.

"Mukhang 'tunika.'"

"Tunika?"Tinanong ko. "Ang anim? Are you sure?"

If …

Dalawampung per-sentimo ng Canada pop-u-la-tion, or near­ly 6,630,000 peo-ple, speaks a lan­guage oth­er than English or French at home, accord­ing to a recent report from Statistics Canada.

The most wide­ly spo­ken lan­guages include Mandarin, Cantonese, …

Sigurado ka tingin-ing tungkol sa relo-pusa-ing sa Quebec City? Have you recent­ly moved there?

Pagkatapos suriin ang aming Buhay sa ibang bansa sa Canada: Quebec City pahina.

It includes a long list of mga mapagkukunan tungkol sa trabaho, real …

Karamihan sa mga Amerikano, Brits, Australyano, or oth­er English-speak­ers who move to Canada assume that they’ll be able to under­stand Canadian English.

Sa katunayan, before we relo­cat­ed to Canada from the U.S., it did­n’t occur to me …

Kahapon, when I attend­ed the Canada-Sweden sledge hock­ey game dur­ing the Vancouver 2010 Paralympic Games, I got to won­der­ing about the word “paragos."

Sa Estados Unidos, we had amagparagos, but until I came …