Category: Opinion
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Canada must abolish the Senate, save $92 million annually
Canada Senate is an unnecessary burden on Canadian taxpayers as each of the senators gets an annual salary of $132,300 plus perks and privileges By Balwant Sanghera VANCOUVER: The latest developments with respect to the Canada Senate indicate that this relic of the past should be put to rest. The events relating to Senator Pat Brazeau…
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Salman Rushdie hiding his Pakistani links in his memoir
By Ajaz Ashraf There are as many versions of an event as there is the number of witnesses, a profound truth Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa tellingly conveyed in Rashomon. Thus, people writing their memoirs are prone to concealing embarrassing episodes of their lives to cultivate the image they have of themselves. It is a frailty…