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  • Parenting
    Pandemic parenting: Why positivity and mindset matter for moms

    Pandemic parenting: Why positivity and mindset matter for moms

    Staying connected with family during COVID-19 means changing your mindset.
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    What kids learning from parents working from home during COVID-19 pandemic

    What kids learning from parents working from home during COVID-19 pandemic

    Can working from home leave a positive impact on kids?
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    The New Curriculum: Resiliency

    The New Curriculum: Resiliency

    How to help your kids find resiliency during the COVID-19 pandemic and buil
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    Bullying – How Parents Can Play an Important Role

    Bullying – How Parents Can Play an Important Role

    What is a parent's role when educating kids about bullying?
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    I’m a Sikh Mom, Should I Let My Daughters Cut Their Hair?

    I’m a Sikh Mom, Should I Let My Daughters Cut Their Hair?

    Should all traditions be followed?
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  • Recipes
    Keema Empanadas with Ground Turkey and Masala

    Keema Empanadas with Ground Turkey and Masala

    Not having large family dinners during the holidays doesn’t mean you can’t
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    Stay-at-Home Spiced Turkey Curry

    Stay-at-Home Spiced Turkey Curry

    A mix of Goan-inspired spices make this a perfect turkey curry recipe for y
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    Punjabi Orange Lentil Stew (Dhuli Masoor Dal)

    Punjabi Orange Lentil Stew (Dhuli Masoor Dal)

    An easy recipe for whole red lentils called dhuli masoor dal.
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    Street food at Home: Sloppy Turkey Bun Kabab DIY Station

    Street food at Home: Sloppy Turkey Bun Kabab DIY Station

    Make Eid Festive at Home By Nazima Qureshi Eid-ul-Adha is fast approaching
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    Recipe: Turkey Chili

    Recipe: Turkey Chili

    Spicy turkey chili for cold days and holiday time.
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  • Culture
    Why South Asian Moms Are Praising Mira, Royal Detective

    Why South Asian Moms Are Praising Mira, Royal Detective

    Why South Asian moms love the new series, Mira, Royal Detective.
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    Diwali Gift Ideas For Family and Friends

    Diwali Gift Ideas For Family and Friends

    Diwali gifts for all ages.
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    Eid Family Gift Guide

    Eid Family Gift Guide

    The ultimate Eid Gift Guide for the men, women, children, and families in y
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    Inspiring Voices: Vandana Vishwas, Architect of an Award-Winning Journey in Music

    Inspiring Voices: Vandana Vishwas, Architect of an Award-Winning Journey in Music

    Vandana Vishwas, a musical prodigy despite physical limitations.
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    4 Ways Indian Wedding Traditions are Evolving

    4 Ways Indian Wedding Traditions are Evolving

    What will expectations be like for Indian Weddings in the future?
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  • Education
    10 Ways to Help Your Child Succeed in High School

    10 Ways to Help Your Child Succeed in High School

    Help your child succeed in high School. Be a partner in their team for success.
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    Prevent the ‘Summer Slide’ with the NELSON Disney Learning Series

    Prevent the ‘Summer Slide’ with the NELSON Disney Learning Series

    NELSON, Canada's leading educational publisher launches NELSON's Disney Lea
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    Teachable Moments: How to Think Like A Teacher

    Teachable Moments: How to Think Like A Teacher

      By Maya Thiagarajan Last week, my son came home from school looking
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    Bay Area School Enhances the Classroom Experience

    Bay Area School Enhances the Classroom Experience

    By Anjum Choudhry Nayyar Class size is one of many factors to consider when
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    Nurturing Your Child’s Language Development

    Nurturing Your Child’s Language Development

    How do you foster speech and language development in kids?
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  • Money
    Families and Taxes: Q &A

    Families and Taxes: Q &A

    Tax info from H&R Block Canada.
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     It’s That Time of Year: Let’s Get our Taxes On!

     It’s That Time of Year: Let’s Get our Taxes On!

    How H&R Block can make filing taxes easy.
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    Saving up for your kids’ education isn’t easy, but well worth the payout

    Saving up for your kids’ education isn’t easy, but well worth the payout

    The value of an RESP.
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    ScotiaBank and General Motors Help You Earn Your Next Vehicle

    ScotiaBank and General Motors Help You Earn Your Next Vehicle

    A new Visa Card gives a faster way to earn that next vehicle.
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    Woman’s Work: Empowering Women For Success

    Woman’s Work: Empowering Women For Success

    An entrepreneur launches a business to tackle women's work.
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  • Fashion
    Outfit Ideas for Every Kind of New Year’s Eve Party

    Outfit Ideas for Every Kind of New Year’s Eve Party

    House party or cocktail party, we've got your style covered for New Year's Eve.
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    Taking Back the Pressure to Keep that ‘Summer Body’

    Taking Back the Pressure to Keep that ‘Summer Body’

    By Rajbinder Grewal While summer days may turn to back-to-school, there see
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    Sarena Udani: Turning Luxury Loungewear into A Successful Brand

    Sarena Udani: Turning Luxury Loungewear into A Successful Brand

    Not your grandmother's loungewear!
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    Rosena Sammi: changing the face of female empowerment

    Rosena Sammi: changing the face of female empowerment

    Mom and global fashion designer Rosena Sammi makes an impact on human traff
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    How to Plan A Maternity Shoot: Some South Asian Inspiration

    How to Plan A Maternity Shoot: Some South Asian Inspiration

    A look at a maternity shoot in the water!
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  • Travel
    Should You Take Your Kids to India—Is it worth it? 

    Should You Take Your Kids to India—Is it worth it? 

    Have fears about taking kids to India?
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    New Toy Story Land at Walt Disney World

    New Toy Story Land at Walt Disney World

    The new Toy Story Land at Walt Disney World Resort fosters a child's child’
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    Disney Cruise Line’s  New Spaces and New Experiences

    Disney Cruise Line’s New Spaces and New Experiences

    Exciting new spaces and new experiences designed for guests of all ages are
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    A Family Guide to a Weekend in Kingston

    A Family Guide to a Weekend in Kingston

    Why Kingston hits the mark with families.
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    Finding My Mumbai, Finding Myself

    Finding My Mumbai, Finding Myself

    Why we all need a little Mumbai.
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  • Health
    Managing your diabetes starts in the kitchen

    Managing your diabetes starts in the kitchen

    From timing meals, technology to using different kinds of flour, learn more
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    New year, New habits

    New year, New habits

    This post is sponsored by Abbott Canada. All expressed opinions and experie
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    How to be less stressed while living with diabetes and stay on track

    How to be less stressed while living with diabetes and stay on track

    For most of us, the holidays were a time of going from home to home for var
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    3 Ways to Empower Family Members Living with Diabetes

    3 Ways to Empower Family Members Living with Diabetes

    Helping families manage diabetes.
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    Protecting Elders: Why seniors need the flu shot

    Protecting Elders: Why seniors need the flu shot

    Protecting seniors this flu season.
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  • Reads
    10 Books with Empowering Female Characters

    10 Books with Empowering Female Characters

    10 books empower girls with their strong female protagonists in a South Asi
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    10 Kids Books To Share The Story of Diwali

    10 Kids Books To Share The Story of Diwali

    Some of our favourite kids books that share the story of Diwali with differ
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    Sonali Dev: Changing the face of the Romance Genre

    Sonali Dev: Changing the face of the Romance Genre

    Author Sonali Dev changing the face of the Indian protagonist in the romanc
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    Anjali Mitter Duva: Writer, Dancer, Educator

    Anjali Mitter Duva: Writer, Dancer, Educator

    Anjali Mitter Duva, a bold and inspiring South Asian mom.
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    Raising Global Citizens in Today’s Classrooms: Meet Teacher, Author, Navjot Kaur

    Raising Global Citizens in Today’s Classrooms: Meet Teacher, Author, Navjot Kaur

    Teacher, Navjot Kaur bridges her Sikh heritage with education to provide mo
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  • Tech
    New App: Teaching Hindi through Nursery Rhymes

    New App: Teaching Hindi through Nursery Rhymes

    An app that teaches Hindi using nursery rhymes!
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    App Teaches Healthy Thinking Skills for Mental Health

    App Teaches Healthy Thinking Skills for Mental Health

    Healthy Minds app helps keep a check on mental health.
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    Teach Your Kids About Holi: The Festival of Colour

    Teach Your Kids About Holi: The Festival of Colour

    An interactive app can teach kids all about the 'Holi' festival.
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    Hashi Khushi: A Fun Interactive Way to Teach Young Kids Bengali Alphabets

    Hashi Khushi: A Fun Interactive Way to Teach Young Kids Bengali Alphabets

    We’re always on the lookout for apps that show interactive ways to te
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    Teach Your Child About Colours in Different South Asian Languages!

    Teach Your Child About Colours in Different South Asian Languages!

    An kids app to help share language and colours.
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  • Youth Talk
    What the #TimesUp Movement Means to Young Women

    What the #TimesUp Movement Means to Young Women

    Women are Speaking Up about Harassment and Abuse and why this will impact g
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    A Time for Community to Come Together

    A Time for Community to Come Together

    Travel ban inspires South Asian youth.
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    Young and Female In a Man’s World

    Young and Female In a Man’s World

    Are we preparing daughters for a man's world?
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    Learning About Sacrifice: A Conversation With Mom

    Learning About Sacrifice: A Conversation With Mom

    Growing up...Female.
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    Why We Need to Cherish Friendships as Women

    Why We Need to Cherish Friendships as Women

    The value of female friendships later in life.
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  • Bollywood
    Favourite Bollywood Movies (and shows!) to stream on Netflix

    Favourite Bollywood Movies (and shows!) to stream on Netflix

    Bollywood shows and movies to watch on Netflix.
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    In Conversation with Iram Haq, director of What Will People Say

    In Conversation with Iram Haq, director of What Will People Say

    A film that explores what happens when your parents' culture doesn't feel l
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    Win Tickets to the Toronto Screening of Viceroy’s House

    Win Tickets to the Toronto Screening of Viceroy’s House

    Win a pair of tickets to see Gurinder Chadha's new film!
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    Move over Netflix, there’s a new player in town: OnPrimeTV

    Move over Netflix, there’s a new player in town: OnPrimeTV

    New TV service offers great programming for audiences in UK.
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    Top 5 Bollywood Movies to Watch on Mother’s Day

    Top 5 Bollywood Movies to Watch on Mother’s Day

    5 Bollywood movies with strong mom characters.
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  • Events
  • Ask Sitara
    Ask Sitara: How Do You Find Balance as a Mother?

    Ask Sitara: How Do You Find Balance as a Mother?

    Finding balance when kids and life collide.
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    Weight: Losing The Last Five to 10 lbs…Naturally.

    Weight: Losing The Last Five to 10 lbs…Naturally.

    Shedding the last 5 lbs naturally.
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    4 Smoothies to Boost Your Energy

    4 Smoothies to Boost Your Energy

    Four tasty smoothie recipes for moms on the go.
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    How to Stay Hydrated While Flying

    How to Stay Hydrated While Flying

    Natural ways to keep fluid levels up while travelling.
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    How to Keep Skin Glowing and Smooth

    How to Keep Skin Glowing and Smooth

    The perfect skin routine & DIY mask to keep skin glowing.
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  • Advice
    • In-Law Corner
    • Step-Mothering
    • Mommy Diaries
    • Shape UR Life: Fit Tips by Binu Dhindsa
    • MM @ Work
    • What’s On Your Plate?
  • Editor’s Blog
  • CarTalk
    6 New Chevrolet Canada Vehicles For Every Family Member

    6 New Chevrolet Canada Vehicles For Every Family Member

    Favourite reveals from Chevrolet Canada.
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    10 Ways The 2016 Chevrolet Equinox Makes Its Mark

    10 Ways The 2016 Chevrolet Equinox Makes Its Mark

    Space and connectivity win in the 2016 Equinox.
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    Chocolate Barfi for Festival Drives

    Chocolate Barfi for Festival Drives

    Easy Chocolate Barfi!
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    A Chevrolet Canada Diwali Giveaway!

    A Chevrolet Canada Diwali Giveaway!

    A special Diwali drive giveaway from our partners at Chevrolet Canada.
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    ScotiaBank and General Motors Help You Earn Your Next Vehicle

    ScotiaBank and General Motors Help You Earn Your Next Vehicle

    A new Visa Card gives a faster way to earn that next vehicle.
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  • Designer Collective

5 Ways To Motivate Yourself To Workout During Winter 

5 Moves Tone To Up Your Arms and Back

Bold and Inspiring Zehra Allibhai: Inspiring Women Through Fitness

Working Out With Kids

Post Pregnancy Workout Tips

Third Trimester Workouts

Fitness With Ramona: Star-Worthy Advice

Fit Pregnancy: Second Trimester Workouts

Weight Training in Your 40’s

Staying Fit While Pregnant

A Look at a 7-Minute Workout For Moms

Shape UR Life: Fit Tips by Binu Dhindsa

Articles

Here, fitness columnist Binu Dhindsa provides moms with easy ways to bring fitness and exercise back into their daily routine with some of her favourite ideas and videos.

5 Ways To Motivate Yourself To Workout During Winter 
Shape UR Life: Fit Tips by Binu Dhindsa

5 Ways To Motivate Yourself To Workout During Winter 

How to keep up regular exercise during winter.

  • 8 Feb
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5 Moves Tone To Up Your Arms and Back
FeaturedShape UR Life: Fit Tips by Binu Dhindsa

5 Moves Tone To Up Your Arms and Back

Give your arms a workout!

  • 21 Nov
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Bold and Inspiring Zehra Allibhai: Inspiring Women Through Fitness
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Bold and Inspiring Zehra Allibhai: Inspiring Women Through Fitness

This mom and fitness instructor is inspiring cultural change on exercise.

  • 22 Sep
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