Hina P. Ansari

A friend posted an article on her Facebook wall about PC staffer Amanda Wilkie's jaw-dropping tweet about Wildrose leader Danielle Smith's lack of children.

Yup that's right -- Wilkie went there.

This was on the heels of Wildrose's Family Pack Pledge, including announcements with...

A hoodie and a hijab.

A black teen and a young Iraqi.

My hopes that as time goes by, a certain sense of enlightenment has set in with respect to racial profiling and xenophobia.

Clearly I'm wrong and continue to be hopelessly naïve.

This past week the...

I stumbled upon Helen Campbell's television interview on the local news about her tweet to Justin Beiber in the hopes of spreading much-needed awareness on organ donation. His generous retweeting resulted in 2,000 more organ donors.

Then it led to her recent headlining appearance on The...

The epitome of cinematic coolness.

If there is one film that the cool cats were dying to see this season, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo would be it.

The highly anticipated on-screen adaptation of the first of the Swedish trilogy by Stieg Larsson, has undoubtedly...

When I first caught the premier episode of All-American Muslim it was simply by accident. It was a classic case of just not bothering to find the remote.

And I'm glad I didn't bother.

The groundbreaking primetime eight-part reality series follows the everyday lives of five Muslim American...

A Scar Is a Story

When fashion photographer, David Jay discovered that one of his regular subjects was diagnosed with breast cancer at the young age of 32, he immediately did what he could do best: He picked up his camera. Paulina, the identical twin...

This past Sunday I caught Pakistan's new Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar on Fareed Zakaria GPS. I was immediately intrigued to see how this newly-minted stateswoman would present herself amidst the journalist gravitas that CNN and Zakaria hold.

Being positioned at such a high level of international...

It's obvious that India is definitely the consumer market that high-end luxury designers find themselves falling over each other in their well-heeled shoes for their slice of the eastern economic pie.

And why not? India has been growing at a blistering pace with many factors in play: the emerging...

I am a film buff. Correction. A film fanatic. And after recently catching up with my dear old celluloid friends namely, Brasco, Corleone, Hill and Conway, it reaffirmed my belief that nothing nourishes my soul quite like curling up with a great old gangster flick.

Recently I was elated...

As the tragedy was unfolding in Oslo, where a bomb was detonated in the buildings housing the office of their prime minister, and then inexplicably followed by an unimaginable point-and-shoot style attack at a Labour Party youth camp on Utoya, an island 50 km away, everyone was immediately trying to...

As my day started, those of my friends and family were ending with the startling news of three coordinated attacks in Mumbai. As reported by Times of India, the three bombs were detonated within minutes of each other with the first one around 6:45 p.m. local time in...

Not too long ago, there was an interesting story in Sunday's New York Times by Katharine Q. Seelye about the fast changing rules for women on how to handle their respective political hubbies' digital digressions.

In "A New Twist to Wives' Playbook for Sex Scandals" Seelye, details...

As Toronto gets set to roll out the "green" carpet for the plethora of Bollywood stars that are set to take this city by Mumbai-sized storm, for the International Indian Academy (IIFA) Awards, I welcome the fan frenzy which is electrifying the city with a sense of pride. As I...

As the Canada Post strike drags into its third week, my emotions are two-fold. First, I feel sorry for the newly minted CEO who happens to be the husband of a dear friend of mine, and secondly getting increasingly irked by the endless discussions led by TV's talking heads about...