Cooking with Thas: Classic Fall Recipes!
Warm up to come classic Fall comfort food with Thasneen from Cooking with Thas — a renowned food blogger! Check out her other recipes on www.thasneen.com.
Category: Lifestyle
Saving the world with voluntary simplicity
With the mass of headlines warning of humanity’s impeding fall into a climate dystopia, your heart might sink a little. The news points to a bleak future, one that will be experienced if not by yourself, surely your children and grandchildren. A future of civilization collapse...
I want to engage in psychotherapy but…
A teenager with obsessive-compulsive disorder is not allowed to see a psychotherapist because her parents fear that it will affect their reputation. The stress from her OCD causes her to experience heart palpitations and breathing problems. A young woman on antidepressants knows that psychotherapy would help...
Smart choices make healthy food affordable
Many Canadian Muslims worry that eating healthy is too expensive. In fact, this worry is so widespread that many families assume healthier grocery choices will be detrimental to their family budget and are not practical. When making major family decisions – such as the quality of food...
Lin’s Ethical Eats: Choosing Local
Besides making my diet a little bit more ethical by consuming less meat and more greens, I also try to eat locally and according to what’s in season. By doing this, I’m contributing less to the carbon footprint produced when food is shipped from outside of...
Leaving a Legacy Behind: Farrah Marfatia
As I sat bright eyed and eager in my teacher’s college class, my peers and I were told by our instructor, “If education is not 100% your passion, then you need to leave now and find another career.” After becoming a teacher, I truly understood my...
Ramadan in Bahrain: A Muslim-American Indo-Pakistani’s Experience
Though the title of this article may be a mouthful, it reflects the complex issue of identity that thousands of Muslims minorities living in the West face; few understand the identity crisis that occurs. While in the West one becomes too foreign and alien, in Muslim-majority countries the...
Asking Why? | The Boy and the Owl by Siraj Mowjood
There are two words that stand out in early childhood. They are “no” and “mine.” Thankfully, a third and far more pleasant word, “why” makes a quick début. “Why are you laughing?” “Why do birds sing?” “Why should I eat my broccoli?” To brush off the...
Project Ramadan | Hunger in Canada: An Unfortunate Reality
Given that charity is one of the pillars of Islam, and that the Prophet Muhammad (Peace be Upon Him) stressed the importance of helping those in need, it is no surprise that many Canadian Muslims are generous in giving to charity with both their time and...