Category: Opinions
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Are Mothers of Children with Life-Threatening Illnesses “Chosen”?
The epidural was a game-changer. It was the first time in 25 years that I did not feel the throbbing unrelenting pain of arthritis in my lower back. I wept with joy. It was the sweetest experience of my life, prior to my daughter Anakha’s birth. The fact that it got rid of those pesky labour pangs, was…
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Globalization, Through a Wedding
Technically, there is no such thing as a simple Indian wedding. You take the complexity to another level when you do an Indian wedding in Canada, and the groom is American. Throw in remote management by my daughter who was living and working in New York City, the picture is complete. Globalization, through a wedding!…
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When Your Child’s Student Loan Is Bigger Than Your Mortgage
We did the math. After we picked up half the tab, my daughter’s student loan was going to be larger than the mortgage on our house. It was not a comforting thought — letting your child rack up a debt of that size even before she starts working. My daughter’s first career choice was to…
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Who is A True Blue Aussie?
I begin this article by acknowledging the traditional custodians of this land, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. Who is a True Blue Aussie? Not that hard to describe. For those of you who have watched ‘Crocodile Dundee’, Paul Hogan is the best fit. For others who have not yet had any friends, colleagues,…
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Five facts about privacy that may catch you unaware!
With the proliferation of the internet and the growing number of users of social media, one is often confronted with the question: What about privacy? The adage “What happens on the internet, stays on the internet” is indeed true. Are we comfortable that Google, Facebook, and other such aggregators of information – be it public…