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On any ordinary day, the South Vancouver was noisy with the life of the neighborhood, but was not a regular day on Saturday. It was a celebration of the Philippine culture and was reflected in the streets as families playing music, food trucks and children in children.
Sunday was strangely silent.
“It gives me a cold,” said Franchesca Gabo, took them all.
Ms. Gabo, 20, remained a short time before the driver shortly left the festival, killing 11 and injuring more than 30.
Now he returned with the embrace of people who worked in vain to master the greatness of the police and evolve.
“It was a happy day yesterday,” said Mrs. Gabo. “Everybody was celebrating.”
The government says the cause of the attack does not seem like terrorism. However, except for this small, another guardianship about the suspect is a 30-year-old man, a history of mental illness. Now charged with murder.
Celebrating Lapu Lapu, the festival was more popular about the victims.
The youngest was a 5 year old girl who was killed with her parents, Richard Le, 47 and Linh Hoang with her parents. Mr Le’s 16-year-old son Andy survived due to the decision of the festival to jump in favor of his homework in the last minutes.
A head of a nearby school board called Kira Salim said the guide adviser was among the dead. “The loss of our friend and colleague has all left the shock and heartbeat.”
The removal of the Foundation helped to help the people injured in the attack and return the remains of at least one victim.
More than 960,000 people in Canada, according to the government, are the origin of the Philippines, which is about half of them in Vancouver, Toronto and Calgary. In June 2023, a government report noted the healthy representation in the management sectors of Philippines, health, service and business management sectors.
“Philippine Canadians are one of the most severe people working in Canada,” he said.
Many made it to Canada through foreign working programs, including a live caregiver program that flees between 1992 and 2014 helped to relocate About 75,000 filipinos.
Angelo Cruz, who was growing in the neighborhood where the festival, was working as a master’s degree in his mother in science, and helped to enter the family until the residence win.
“You are this victim, you have allowed your child to grow potentially because you want your child to spend a better life,” said Cruz.
However, Lapu Lapu Day means a break from all this.
“Once we wanted to express ourselves and have fun – and we could not get it,” said Mr. Cruz, a human resource administrator that was grown in the society where the festival was held. “It was heartwarming for me.”
The neighborhood is decorated with blue, blue blue, blue, white and red, the national colors of the Philippines, the streets are decorated with a mixture of enterprises and restaurants that present only the Philippines, Vietnamese, Chinese and Indian dishes.
Sunday Mr. Cruz and his family Pan Palabok, garlic noodles and a shrimp dish came out of a restaurant pin pin from a restaurant known as the dish. Then they focused on the Vigil sites.
In one of them Arturo Macapagal, often a quiet prayer in the neighborhood nurse, a quiet prayer, which was attended by a priest, took a moment.
“When you want, especially the Philippine community, it’s not” Camaraderie “, about food and happiness and joy and laughter and camaraderie.
As the Prime Minister Mark Carney came to pay his respect, the crowd was “amazing grace.”
In mourning, life continued.
Furny Pinoy exploded on the street from a center for food products, specialty food products on the street. Buyers looked at the shelves carrying dried fish called Tuyo, heavy sacks and sweet corn plants. A poster advertisement of the Lapu Lapu Day festival was still filmed.
