Author - Mansoor Ladha

Seventy-five-year -old Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands recently hung up her scepter and handed over power to her middle-aged son. Her subjects cheered, a few...

Some time ago, a friend told me that you need a holiday after a holiday. How true. We have just returned from a five-week marvelous holiday in the United...

Everyone anxiously awaits retirement. We have visions of spending our Golden Years golfing every day and spending time at some exotic island with margarita in...

A reader wrote a letter to one of the local daily newspapers recently complaining about “Italian or Spanish-speaking men speaking their native language...

EVEN as a non-Catholic I was excited about the election of Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos Aires as Pope Francis. It was the biggest story of the...

Venezuela is mad at Canada. Stephen Harper’s condolence message to the Venezuelan people on the death of their president, Hugo Chavez, didn’t...

As expected, the film Argo won Oscar for the best picture. The movie was made by Hollywood to depict the role played by Canada in sheltering and later freeing...

If you went shopping recently, you will notice that the familiar copper coins – pennies – are missing in the change that you received from your corner store...

Kenya, one the three east African countries, is facing its greatest challenge when goes to the polls on March 4. The country has had a violent past as far as...

Don’t forget, hey you lovers; mark it down in your calendar. Next Thursday, February 14 is Valentine’s Day. You only know what happens if you...