Two important incidents have happened recently, which attracted national and international attention and both the incidents dealing with girls. In both cases...
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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We should welcome Canada’s new roommate
Next time when you phone Canadian Embassy in Port-au-Prince or Rangoon in Burma (Myanmar), it is very likely that you will hear a recording saying: ”...
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A lesson from Bollywood
One of my favourite Indian movies, called My Name Is Khan, ran packed houses in Calgary. My Name Is Khan has a powerful message. In these days of tensions and...
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Time to end ant-U.S. protests
There is a new anti-American protest somewhere every day. I can’t keep with the count. It seems the Muslim world has gone mad judging by the widespread...
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Israel dictates Canada’s foreign policy
Canada appears to have a new foreign minister. His name is Benjamin Netanyahu. His day job may be prime minister of Israel, but Canada’s abrupt actions...
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Sad, yet memorable stories of new Canadian writers
It was a great honour to be invited by an editor of a book publisher to write about how I came to Canada. Her proposed project was to invite 36 other writers...
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Visible minority term loses usefulness
For years, I have been classified as a visible minority in Canada, but according to the recent report released by the Association of Canadian Studies, the term...
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Jack Layton’s legacy lingers one year later
“To other Canadians who are on journeys to defeat cancer and to live their lives, I say this: please don’t be discouraged that my own journey...
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Fewer RSVPs likely for Asian expulsion festival
The brutal dictator of Uganda, General Idi Amin, 40 years ago this August, ordered the expulsion of the country’s Asian population, who had lived in the...
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Life without the Sunday Herald no cup of tea
It was the first Sunday I didn’t have my favourite newspaper to read. The Calgary Herald had decided to stop publishing the Sunday edition starting...