New Year, New Me? Here’s a ‘Healthy’ Version of ‘New Year, New Me’ Sabra Ismath January 25, 2020 Lifestyle & Entertainment You know it’s the beginning of a new year when your phone blows up with ‘Happy New Year!’ messages and the famous question begins floating in everyone’s mind: “What’s your New Year's resolution?” Yet, how many... Read More...
MY Voice Canada Meets Heart to Heart MY Voice October 8, 2017 Creative Writing From the Heart of Jewish and Arab Israeli youth Summer of 2017 brought a fresh wave of faces of youth from Israel: 10 Israeli Jews and 10 Israeli Arabs/Muslims. As Heart to Heart - the sponsors of this youth... Read More...
Ramadan: The Month of the Quran Areej Hashmi June 10, 2017 Faith As my first year of university draws to an end, I think about how things typically were at this time for me in the previous years. I would be getting summatives upon summatives (AKA culminating tasks or ISUs) a... Read More...
Hamza Ahmad: Founder of “How to Be A Bully” and “Journal For Muslims” Fatima Zahra June 6, 2017 Inspiring Individuals, News & Social Issues Update: Journal for Muslims is out NOW as of June 6th! Hamza Ahmad is a 23 year old South African Pakistani, who graduated from the University of British Columbia with a degree in kinesiology and a minor in co... Read More...
The Hunger Banquet: A Reflection Sana Masood May 30, 2017 News & Social Issues Did you know that 6 million children across the globe die each year due to malnutrition? Or that the wealthy 10% of the world's population account for 59% of global food consumption? These were some of the shoc... Read More...
#WasteFreeRamadan: Eliminating Plastic Bottles from Mosques Komal Adeel May 29, 2017 News & Social Issues Ramadan is a time to reflect on all the blessing we have been given by Allah (SWT), and what greater blessing is there than this beautiful, green planet we live on? Yet our daily lives are filled with consumpti... Read More...
Meeting Dennis Edney at the MAX Gala Nargis N March 29, 2016 Inspiring Individuals By Nargis N. It was a cold and icy day in Toronto. Instead of the usual snow storm, we had an ice storm. The roads were slippery and schools were closed due to bad weather. But a big day was ahe... Read More...
The Value of Parents Syeda Ratal Zehra March 19, 2016 Faith By Syeda Ratal Zehra Parents are one of the biggest blessings from God. Whether it be staying up all night to take care of us when we are sick or making us coffee during exam season, they would be willing... Read More...
I sense a Renaissance in Canada – A review of Justin Trudeau Aisha Hyder December 23, 2015 News & Social Issues By Aisha Hyder I rushed to English class beaming, yet feeling sort of silly wearing my red hijab. I thought back to my friend’s remark in History class, “Oh, cute! Are you wearing red because Liberals won?” ... Read More...
Swat, through the eyes of a youth MY Voice December 7, 2015 News & Social Issues by Oshin Fatima As we set out on a 6 hour journey from Islamabad to Swat, my assumption of what Swat was like was one of beauty, despite the broken houses and lack of education for girls. To my surprise, the... Read More...
