About The Filipino Post

The Filipino Post

Overview

The Filipino Post is a Vancouver-based newspaper serving Filipino Canadians in British Columbia's Lower Mainland, published as part of the Post Group Multimedia family of community weeklies. Reference works on Vancouver media describe the group as publishing three weekly newspapers, each aimed at one of the region's largest immigrant communities: the Asian Pacific Post for Chinese readers, the South Asian Post for Indo-Canadian readers, and The Filipino Post for Filipino readers. That positioning explains the paper's editorial logic. Rather than competing with metropolitan dailies for general news, it concentrates on the information needs of a specific community — immigration rules, settlement questions, community events, and developments in the Philippines and in Filipino Canadian life that mainstream outlets may cover only briefly.

The paper's website, thefilipinopost.com, is its current public home, and recent bylines indexed from the site show it still publishing in 2026. A July 2026 contribution by Victor Ing, published as a special to the Post, explained Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada's decision to pause new applications under the Parents and Grandparents Sponsorship Program. Other recent contributions from the same writer covered the future of Express Entry at its eleventh anniversary in January 2026, British Columbia's Provincial Nominee Program priorities announced in April 2026, and tightened federal rules for low-wage Labour Market Impact Assessment applications. That cluster of topics is revealing: for many Filipino Canadian households, immigration is not an abstract policy file but a family matter involving parents, spouses, workers and students, and the paper treats detailed explanation of rule changes as core service journalism.

The inventory for this directory lists the outlet in Vancouver, in the province of British Columbia, and describes it as a Filipino newspaper with a multi-city reach. Readers should understand that description in a Lower Mainland sense. Filipino communities are spread across Vancouver, Surrey, Richmond, Burnaby and other municipalities, and a community weekly based in Vancouver naturally circulates among readers, businesses and organisations well beyond the city boundary. This profile distinguishes carefully between documented facts about the paper — its publisher, its sister titles, its address in the late 2010s and its recent immigration coverage — and broader context about the community it serves, which is offered as context and not as a claim about the paper's own circulation or influence.

History

The documented history of The Filipino Post is closely tied to its publisher. Reporting on a British Columbia Supreme Court lawsuit filed by The Post Group Multimedia Inc. recorded that publisher Harbinder Singh Sewak founded the newspaper group in 1992 after emigrating from Malaysia. The group grew into a small stable of English-language community weeklies in Metro Vancouver, an unusual model in ethnic media, where titles often publish primarily in a community language. Publishing in English allowed the Post titles to address readers across generations, including Canadian-born members of immigrant families, and to speak to officials, advertisers and other media in a shared language.

The Filipino Post's history therefore cannot honestly be told as a long list of founding dates specific to the Filipino title alone, because publicly checkable sources document the group more thoroughly than the individual paper. What can be verified is that by the late 2000s the paper was established enough to be counted, alongside its sisters, among Vancouver's community newspapers, and that in November 2017 it was publishing opinion material consequential enough to draw a formal, detailed rebuttal. In December 2017 the Canadian Association of Professional Immigration Consultants wrote to the paper objecting to statements in an opinion piece published on 28 November 2017 about authorised immigration representatives. Whatever view one takes of that dispute, the letter is documentary evidence of two things: the paper was actively publishing commentary on immigration practice, and professional bodies in that field read it and felt obliged to respond on the record.

The group's history also includes a confrontation over printing that was reported at the time as a press-freedom dispute. According to the allegations in the group's lawsuit, after the Asian Pacific Post declined to replace a staff-written article with material supplied by followers of the Falun Gong movement, the group's printer, Epoch Press Inc. of Burnaby, withheld its newspapers. Those claims were allegations in a civil case, reported by other outlets, and this profile presents them as such rather than as settled findings. Publisher Sewak was quoted at the time saying the group would defend its editorial independence. The episode belongs in the Filipino Post's history because the three sister papers shared the same publisher, printer and corporate home, so pressure on one title affected all three.

Content and Coverage

Immigration coverage is the clearest documented strength of The Filipino Post's recent output. The 2026 articles indexed under Victor Ing's byline are explanatory rather than purely reportorial: they walk readers through what a program pause means, how Express Entry has changed after eleven years, what British Columbia's nominee program priorities signal for workers in different sectors, and what employers must now do under stricter low-wage LMIA rules. That style suits a readership for whom a single policy announcement can change a family's plans. A sponsorship pause is not just a headline; it affects whether elderly parents can join relatives in Canada. A nominee program overhaul is not just provincial news; it shapes whether a worker already in British Columbia can realistically stay.

The paper's earlier opinion content shows a similar concern with the mechanics of the immigration system. The 2017 piece that drew the consultants' association response concerned authorised representatives and the risks facing people seeking immigration help — a subject of lasting importance in newcomer communities, where unregulated advice can be costly. Community papers earn trust by returning to such practical questions repeatedly, in plain language, rather than only covering immigration when it becomes a national political controversy.

Alongside immigration, a Filipino community newspaper in Metro Vancouver can be expected to cover community organisations, religious and cultural celebrations, Philippine news with diaspora relevance, Canadian politics affecting Filipino Canadians, and personal-finance, health and education questions — but readers should note that those are general expectations for the genre, not a verified catalogue of this paper's sections. What is documented is the paper's place in a group whose other titles are known for community reporting, and the Filipino Post's own recent focus on immigration policy explanation. Its coverage of the April 2025 Lapu-Lapu Day tragedy in Vancouver is part of the wider context in which Filipino Canadian media worked that year, though this profile does not attribute specific reporting on that event to this title without a checkable byline.

Audience and Reach

The Filipino Post addresses Filipino Canadians in Metro Vancouver and the wider Lower Mainland. Independent reference material describes the Post Group's three weeklies as serving three of the largest immigrant communities in the region, which places the Filipino title within a substantial, established readership community rather than a marginal one. The Philippines has for many years been one of Canada's leading sources of immigrants, and Filipino Canadians form a large community in British Columbia, working prominently in health care, caregiving, hospitality, retail and other sectors, with community institutions including churches, cultural associations, remittance and food businesses, and annual celebrations such as Lapu-Lapu Day, which the province officially recognised in 2023.

No current, independently verified circulation or readership figure for The Filipino Post itself was found during research for this profile, and none is claimed here. Older group-level descriptions establish the model's intent rather than a measurable audience. Readers comparing outlets should therefore treat the paper's reach in practical terms: a free or community-distributed weekly and its website reach readers where they gather — community businesses, cultural events, workplaces and family networks — and its explainers are written to be shared within families deciding on sponsorships, work permits and study plans. That kind of reach is real but does not lend itself to a single honest number without audited data, and inventing one would mislead directory users.

The multi-city description in the inventory is consistent with how the Lower Mainland functions. A Filipino family may live in Surrey, work in Vancouver, worship in Richmond and shop in Burnaby. A Vancouver-based community paper that follows immigration, provincial nominee rules and community life speaks to that whole pattern of movement, not to one municipality alone.

Digital Presence

The paper's digital presence is centred on thefilipinopost.com. The strongest evidence of current activity is the trail of recent articles indexed from the site, including the July 2026 sponsorship-program explainer credited to Victor Ing as a special contribution to the Post. That pattern suggests a website carrying staff and contributed analysis, with immigration explainers prominent enough to be picked up by journalist-profile services that track bylines across outlets. Such tracking is useful to researchers precisely because community papers' own archives can be difficult to search; the byline record independently confirms the title was publishing new material in 2026.

Digital publication also changes what a community weekly can do. In print, an explainer appears once; online, a guide to Express Entry changes or nominee-program priorities remains findable months later, when a reader actually faces an application deadline. For an outlet whose value lies in practical guidance, that durability matters as much as speed. The Post Group's titles have described themselves over the years as multimedia operations, and the Filipino Post's web presence should be understood as the contemporary continuation of the weekly newspaper rather than a separate product. Readers who want the paper's current coverage should go directly to its website, where the latest articles, rather than any directory description, are the authoritative record of what it is publishing now.

Ownership and Organisation

The Filipino Post is published by The Post Group Multimedia Inc. of Vancouver, in a stable with the Asian Pacific Post and the South Asian Post. The group's publisher, Harbinder Singh Sewak, is a well-documented figure in British Columbia community media. Reports on the group's 2009-era lawsuit describe him as founder of the group in 1992, and later coverage of his community work notes that he was the first South Asian print publisher to win a Jack Webster Award for excellence in journalism in mainstream categories — an honour connected to the South Asian Post's campaigning reporting — and that he co-authored a book on the Jassi Sidhu case. He also received a top media prize at the World Sikh Awards in London, honouring his work highlighting social issues facing immigrants in Canada. Those distinctions attach to the publisher and the group; this profile does not transfer them to the Filipino title individually.

Organisationally, the shared-group model has practical consequences. Three small weeklies can share a publisher, production arrangements, advertising relationships and legal support that none might sustain alone, while keeping distinct editorial identities for distinct communities. The printing dispute reported in the late 2000s illustrates the other side of that model: a single printer relationship was a shared vulnerability, and the group's response was made collectively, through one lawsuit and one public defence of editorial independence. For readers, the key organisational facts are the group's Vancouver base, its three-title structure, and a publisher whose public record in community journalism stretches back more than three decades.

Contact and Availability

The Filipino Post can be read online at thefilipinopost.com, which is the most reliable route to its current articles. A historical business address is documented in the December 2017 letter from the immigration consultants' association, which addressed the paper at Box 2953, 349 West Georgia, Vancouver, BC V6B 3X4. That address is given here as a dated record from 2017, not as a guarantee of the paper's present mailing address; readers needing to contact the newsroom, place advertising or send a correction should use the contact information currently posted on the paper's own website.

Availability in print has historically followed the community-weekly model in Metro Vancouver, with distribution through community locations, but current print distribution points and frequency should likewise be confirmed on the website, since community papers adjust print schedules over time. This directory's public business email field is intentionally left empty, in line with the site policy for outlet profiles. For Filipino Canadians in British Columbia — and for researchers, settlement workers and officials who follow the community — The Filipino Post remains a documented, currently publishing source of immigration explanation and community news, best consulted directly and regularly at its own site.