Journalism is a risky occupation, especially for those who are assigned overseas in trouble areas. Those of us who are privileged to work at home under safer...
Author - Mansoor Ladha
Mansoor Ladha is a Calgary-based journalist and author of A Portrait in Pluralism: Aga Khan’s Shia Ismaili Muslims.
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Leaving balmy Calgary for sun destination
January is the time when we take a short break from the brutal weather that we experience this month, but this January as we all know was something else. Day...
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Expensive lesson learnt when losing wallet
Losing a wallet can be a traumatic experience. I had the misfortune to loose my wallet recently. It so happened that we were returning home from an evening out...
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Resolutions hard to keep
January is a resolution month. That’s the time when most people make their New Year resolutions, but it’s only the fortunate few who can keep them...
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Heralding the New Year 2014
We are welcoming the New Year – 2014 – and bidding goodbye to the old one. It is a time to take stock and reminisce about main events of 2013 and looking ahead...
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Meaning of Christmas for a Muslim
Being a Muslim in a predominantly Christian country, especially during Christmas can be quite an experience. Every mid-November, neighbour Sam, dubbed...
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Mandela’s biggest legacy: forgive your enemies
In the 1960s, Mandela and other African nationalists fighting colonialism were called terrorists by majority of western news agencies. I was working as a copy...
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Nenshi Canada’s second most important person
Calgary’s popular mayor is the second most important person in Canada, behind only to the nation’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper. This is according...
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JFK legacy remembered 50 years later
I was a young university undergraduate when President Jack F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963. All the students were shocked to hear of his death...
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Daylight Savings Time can create problems
Since Sunday, November 3, we have entered Daylight Savings Time. Clocks were adjusted forward one hour near the start of spring and are adjusted backward in...