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The personal, official blog of author Mezbauddin Mahtab

Saturday, March 10, 2018

Inflated Desi Weddings

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I was reading an article on cheap weddings and how a couple managed to get married on $4000 in a city where the average wedding cost was $...
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Sunday, February 04, 2018

Moving to Canada - Part 2 - Weather

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  See also: Part 1 - School and Housing Let's talk about the weather. All Canadians love to talk about the weather. This is a ...
Thursday, February 01, 2018

Moving to Canada - Part 1 - School and Housing

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  I have a lot of friends who are moving to Canada from the Middle East, so I have noticed the questions they ask sometimes follow a com...
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Tuesday, January 02, 2018

How To Do Arranged Marriage Wrong (Especially Girls)

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I once wrote an article defending arranged marriage in response to a nonsense CBC ' article '. In this post, I want to talk about ...
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Thursday, November 16, 2017

10 Key takeaways from the SecTor

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This week I was lucky enough to attend the SecTor conference .   It was interesting to network with a group of people whose job it was...
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Wednesday, November 08, 2017

When Feminism Is Superior to The Prophet, Reevaluate

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When your feminism causes you to downplay the Prophet, you gotta rethink your values. Take a look at this article: " Give M...
Friday, October 06, 2017

The Nouman Ali Khan "Scandal"

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The last two weeks or so had seen the Nouman Ali Khan scandal ( with various hashtags such as #NAK #NAKScandal #MakeDuaMyHotFantasy ) trend...
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Monday, September 04, 2017

Exploring Nature in Owen Sound and Grey County, Ontario

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Owen Sound is a small town located just a bit more than 2 hours driving north west of Toronto. It's part of a bigger countryside cal...
Tuesday, August 29, 2017

Ten Eid Ul Adha Etiquettes

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(these are not necessarily from hadith or sunnah or religion, but also from my common sense)  1. If you are collecting the meat from a ...
Monday, August 21, 2017

The Great American Eclipse 2017

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It was about five years ago when I first read about that a total solar eclipse would occur over North America in 2017. I remember making ...
Saturday, July 01, 2017

Happy Canada Day, eh? The Top 5

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   It's Canada's 150th birthday, and we are throwing a grand party from coast to coast to coast. I am glad my parents came here...
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Friday, May 26, 2017

Rainy weather? Or respite from the heat?

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We have all heard the "glass half empty half full" maxim. I was recently reminded of this. I shared a screenshot of the weather...
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Wednesday, May 24, 2017

Ramadan Can Be Hard

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This is the time of the year the our Facebook feed is full of articles about the 'wonders of Ramadan', or of how this is a 'mag...
Thursday, May 18, 2017

Condo Gardening As A Beginner

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I was never a gardener. It always seemed too much work. I used to watch my mother garden, and see how she toiled away in the heat and how m...
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Tuesday, May 16, 2017

7 Tips on How to Enjoy a Family Vacation

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Now that summer is almost here (we have 29 degree weather tomorrow!), it's time to think about vacations. And with kids in tow, here...
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