28 April 2016
By Len Port, Contributor (*) A potentially disastrous setback for Portugal’s economic recovery was averted with Friday’s announcement that Canada’s DBRS agency has upheld Portugal’s only investment-grade credit rating. A much-feared downgrade to junk status in line with that of the other main agencies — Fitch, Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s — would have seen […]
Posted in Azores, Featured, Heritage, Madeira, Organizations, People, Politics, Portugal, World
27 April 2016
By Kayla Faria, Contributor (*) The daughter of two Azorean immigrants, I grew up in a city with the largest percentage of Portuguese descendants in the United States. One study published by the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth in 2005 reported that 49.6 percent of the city’s residents were primarily of Portuguese ancestry. Born and raised in […]
Posted in Azores, Community, Education, Featured, Genealogy, Heritage, Life Style, People, Portugal, Religion, São Miguel
27 April 2016
Histories of Portugal’s transition to democracy have long focused on the 1974 military coup that toppled the authoritarian Estado Novo regime and set in motion the divestment of the nation’s colonial holdings. However, the events of this “Carnation Revolution” were in many ways the culmination of a much longer process of resistance and protest originating […]
Posted in Arts&Culture, Books, Community, Featured, Politics, Portugal
25 April 2016
Portuguese Canadian singer, songwriter, actress, and philanthropist, Nelly Furtado, will be the recipient of the 2016 Allan Slaight Humanitarian Spirit Award. The award recognizes her social activism and support of humanitarian causes. The award will be presented at the Canadian Music & Broadcast Industry Awards gala to be held on Thursday, May 5, at The […]
Posted in Arts&Culture, Awards, Azores, Community, Entertainment, Featured, Heritage, Music, Organizations, People, São Miguel
24 April 2016
The least known of the great European Modernist poets of the twentieth century, Fernando Pessoa was born in 1888. A virtuoso of poetic voices, he created a coterie of distinct heteronyms, individual voices for whom he created full biographies and full bodies of work that were not only distinctive and original but so distinguished that […]
Posted in Arts&Culture, Books, Featured
22 April 2016
By Len Port, Contributor (*) As Portugal, other EU members and even the United States wait with bated breath, it seems that Britain’s referendum on staying or leaving is likely to go down to the wire. The expatriate vote could be decisive, it is said. But does anyone have any idea how many expatriates are […]
Posted in Arts&Culture, Featured, Life Style, Portugal, World
