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How Brampton demonstrates the new vision of Canada

[ Globe and Mail ][ Jun 16 13:43 GMT ]

It didn’t take long after the first gurdwara was built for the neighbourhood around it to morph into a Little Punjab. Homeowner after homeowner, some escaping the nocturnal chanting of the bedtime prayer, sold to Sikhs eager to live near the bastion of their spiritual and social lives. Now forsaken, the ball diamond next door gave way to extra parking (crowds can reach 10,000) and a gazebo. In the nearby plaza, the dry cleaners and Italian restaurant departed, replaced by shops selling South Asian groceries and sweets. Even the name of the street, Curlew, changed to Gurdwara Gate. [ full story | comments ]

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How Brampton demonstrates the new vision of Canada

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Brampton family grappling with loss of father, daughter

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Tamil alliance leaders to leave for India

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Brampton family grappling with loss of father, daughter

[ City News ][ Jun 16 03:49 GMT ]

A Brampton family is without a father and a daughter after a two-vehicle crash on Friday night. Gobinathan Thangavelu, 40, died at the scene of the deadly crash with a Ford F-350 pickup near Highway 50 and Fogal Road, north of Highway 7. His five-year-old daughter Arani died in hospital, and his three-year old daughter Mehala was fighting for her life at SickKids. The mother, who was driving the family car, remains hospitalized after undergoing eye surgery. [ full story | comments ]

- Two dead after highway crash in Brampton - CTV News

Actor-director Manivannan dead

[ The Hindu ][ Jun 15 20:44 GMT ]

Popular actor-director Manivannan, who struck a chord with Tamil film audiences over the past two decades as a comedian who excelled in political satire, passed away at his residence in a Chennai suburb on Saturday following a cardiac arrest. He is survived by his wife, son and daughter. Prior to making his mark as an actor, Manivannan was also a highly successful director in the 1980s until the mid-1990s, straddling different genres in Tamil cinema. He started his career as an assistant to veteran director Bharathiraja, writing the story and dialogues for landmark Tamil films as “Nizhalgal” and “Alaigal Oiyvathillai”. [ full story | comments ]

- Tamil Actor-Director Manivannan Dead - PTI

Sri Lankan government to limit provincial powers

[ WSWS ][ Jun 15 20:42 GMT ]

Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse has called for significant changes to the country’s constitution that would reduce the powers of provincial councils. The proposal follows the government’s announcement of an election for the Northern Province in September, which remains under effective military control following the defeat of the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in 2009. The US, India, Japan and other powers have called for the election to take place as part of a “political solution” to Sri Lanka’s protracted civil war that would involve a power-sharing arrangement with the island’s Tamil elites. By making constitutional changes, Rajapakse intends to further centralise political power in Colombo and weaken provincial governments, especially those in the North and East. [ full story | comments ]

Jaya’s protest may force India to shift Lankan officers out of Military Staff College in TN

[ ToI ][ Jun 15 10:22 GMT ]

Jayalalithaa expressed shock over the Centre’s "astounding insensitivity" in inviting the two Sri Lankan officers for the course at Wellington despite the "continuing atrocities’’ on civilian Tamils in the island nation.India had even provided some military equipment like 24 L-70 guns, 24 battle-field surveillance radars, 11 USFM radars, four Indra-II radars and 10 mine-protected vehicles to the Sri Lankan forces when they were battling LTTE earlier. The two nations also cooperate in intelligence sharing and undertake `coordinated' naval patrolling. [ full story | comments ]

DEW, Vasu, Tissa oppose Govt. proposals to dilute 13A in writing

[ Daily FT ][ Jun 14 09:46 GMT ]

The socialist alliance within the ruling UPFA coalition yesterday submitted a cabinet memorandum laying out their reasons to oppose the Government’s moves to revise and dilute the provisions of the 13th Amendment. The Memo was submitted by Ministers D.E.W. Gunasekera, Tissa Vitarana and Vasudeva Nanayakkara of the Communist Party, the LSSP and the Democratic Left Front respectively. [ full story | comments ]

- 19A to defuse 13A! - Daily FT

Rising Muslim-Buddhist tensions in Sri Lanka

[ IRIN ][ Jun 12 23:50 GMT ]

An increasing number of Muslim Sri Lankans, who make up around 9 percent of the population, are feeling uneasy amid fears of growing sectarian tensions, say local people and observers. “We just don’t feel we belong here any more,” Fadhil Ahamed, who works in a food store in Colombo, told IRIN. “I had a shop where I sold halal food, but several Buddhist monks who were aligned with a government politician told me not to sell halal food as this was a Sinhalese Buddhist country.” [ full story | comments ]

Sri Lanka's electricity price hike sparks interest in solar

[ Reuters ][ Jun 12 23:47 GMT ]

Angelo de Silva’s mobile phone hasn’t stopped ringing of late. In the month since the Sri Lankan government hiked electricity prices, the boss of Access Solar has been fielding one call after another, answering queries about the solar panels his company provides. “Yesterday I logged three-and-a-half hours of talk time on my mobile,” he told Thomson Reuters Foundation, adding that callers wanted to find out how solar panels can help them reduce their electricity bills. [ full story | comments ]

Top Sri Lanka police officer held over 'contract killing'

[ BBC ][ Jun 11 22:20 GMT ]

One of Sri Lanka's most senior police officers has been arrested under terrorism laws over the murder of a businessman in Colombo. Deputy Inspector-General Vaas Gunawardena has been given a 90-day detention order. He is suspected of involvement in the alleged contract killing of Mohamed Shiyam in Colombo three weeks ago. Mr Shiyam's body was found mutilated and with gunshot wounds in a rural area near the capital. [ full story | comments ]

On Sri Lanka, US Rapp Disappointed on Accountability, Watching Pillay Go

[ Inner City Press ][ Jun 11 22:17 GMT ]

When the US Ambassador at Large on War Crimes Issues, Stephen J. Rapp, appeared at the UN on June 11, Inner City Press asked him about accountability for war crimes in Sri Lanka, particularly four years ago in 2009. Video here from Minute 21:11. Rapp said that the US sponsored two resolution at the UN Human Rights Council in March 2012 and March 2013 which "express our disappointment that provisions of the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission haven't been implemented, in regard reconciliation... between Tamil and major communities in Sri Lanka and particular disappointment on accountability for the alleged grave atrocities near the end of the conflict on both sides." [ full story | comments ]

Sri Lankans not at risk: senior diplomat

[ AAP ][ Jun 11 22:13 GMT ]

Sri Lankans sent home after having their claims for asylum rejected are not at any risk of persecution, the country's high commissioner to Australia says. Admiral Thisara Samarasinghe has vowed to investigate any allegations of mistreatment himself, but says so far such claims have proven "false and baseless". Australia has seen an increase in asylum seekers arriving from Sri Lanka since the country's long-running civil war ended four years ago. [ full story | comments ]

Tamil alliance leaders to leave for India

[ The Hindu ][ Jun 15 20:45 GMT ]

A six member delegation representing the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) — an umbrella organisation of various Tamil political parties in Sri Lanka — will leave for India on Sunday, to meet the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Minister for External Affairs Salman Khurshid on the 13th Amendment to the Sri Lankan Constitution. The delegation will be led by R. Sampanthan, senior Tamil politician and TNA leader. Mavai Senathiraja, M.A. Sumanthiran, Suresh Premachandran, Selvam Adaikalanathan and Pon Selvarasa are the other members who will be part of it. [ full story | comments ]

Rajapaksa woos Lankan Tamils ahead of polls in the north

[ PTI ][ Jun 15 20:42 GMT ]

In a bid to woo Lankan Tamils, President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Saturday toured the former LTTE strongholds in the country's north ahead of the planned election in the region. "For 30 years you saw the war, now you have seen 4 years of development", Rajapaksa said in Kilinochchi, the former LTTE administrative capital. Addressing a gathering in Tamil, Rajapaksa heralded many government development projects in the post-conflict phase. "We have given you development never seen before," he said. [ full story | comments ]

Karunanidhi soft on UPA due to Kanimozhi, Jayalalithaa says

[ IANS ][ Jun 15 20:41 GMT ]

DMK president M Karunanidhi does not oppose the training of the Sri Lankan military in India because he wants Congress support to get his daughter Kanimozhi re-elected to the Rajya Sabha, Tamil Nadu chief minister Jayalalithaa said on Saturday. "Despite the DMK exiting the central government, Karunanidhi is not opposing the centre because he needs the support of five Congress legislators for his daughter Kanimozhi's reelection," she said. Kanimozhi is one of the two DMK members in the Rajya Sabha who will retire July 24. A total of six members, including Kanimozhi, would retire next month. [ full story | comments ]

Growing US interests in asia could affect SL: Gota

[ Daily Mirror ][ Jun 14 10:07 GMT ]

The United State’s establishment of a base in the Maldives could change the complexion of the sub-continent region as there is likelihood of its growing interest in the region by aligning more with India; thus causing a factor which may affect Sri Lanka, Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa said yesterday.He said this while delivering a lecture for students following the National Interest Module of the inaugural MPhil/PhD Programme of the Kotelawala Defence University. [ full story | comments ]

Sri Lanka: Using Google Earth as a storytelling tool

[ Journalism.co.uk ][ Jun 13 13:06 GMT ]

two satellite images from Google Earth, taken two months apart, a citizen journalist has been able to tell the story of the end of Sri Lanka's 25-year civil war. Back in November 2012, Sanjana Hattotuwa, founding editor of Groundviews, a site dedicated to 'journalism for citizens', realised that by using the Google Earth time slider, a tool which shows satellite imagery taken on different dates, he could see the presence and subsequent disappearance of refugee camps. The images show a littoral sliver of land between the sea and a lagoon in the north-east of Sri Lanka where displaced people were living in camps. [ full story | comments ]

Sri Lanka allows foreigners to take out capital

[ AFP ][ Jun 12 23:49 GMT ]

Sri Lanka on Wednesday announced the easing of foreign exchange controls to allow foreigners to repatriate capital as well as profits from real estate transactions. The Central Bank of Sri Lanka said it was making it easier for both foreigners and locals to take money in and out of the country as part of measures to spur greater economic activity. Sri Lanka's economic growth slowed to 6.4 percent in calendar year 2012, from 8.2 percent the previous year. [ full story | comments ]

People are fed up with continued growth in asylum-seeker numbers

[ The Australian ][ Jun 12 23:46 GMT ]

THE Australian people are completely fed up with the boatpeople saga. Chief among their concerns is a decent humanitarian desire to stop the drownings that accompany the people-smuggling trade. But that is not the whole story. The Australian people in their overwhelming majority want the national government to reassert national sovereignty over our borders. When the flow of illegal arrivals in our north started after Labor abolished John Howard's policies in 2008, all the wiseacres said it was silly to get exercised about the relatively small numbers who initially arrived. [ full story | comments ]

Tamils want more devolved power in Sri Lanka's north

[ IRIN ][ Jun 11 22:18 GMT ]

Ahead of Sri Lanka's planned provincial election in a former war zone, the country's main ethnic minority Tamil party is pushing to have as much power devolved from Colombo as possible. The island nation has grappled for decades with the question of the devolution of power to its nine provinces, particularly the Northern and Eastern provinces, considered by Tamils to be their homeland. In the early 1980s Tamil frustrations at what they perceived to be discriminatory tactics employed by the state led to the growth of a militant movement and a 26-year civil war that lasted until May 2009, when government forces defeated the separatist Liberations Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). [ full story | comments ]

Second asylum-seeker boat may have sunk off Australia

[ News.com.au ][ Jun 11 22:16 GMT ]

ANOTHER asylum seeker boat is feared lost en route to Australia, as stretched search authorities conduct a fifth rescue effort within a week. The search came as Prime Minister Julia Gillard was forced to defend a decision by Border Protection Command to assist vessels in trouble instead of recovering 13 bodies discovered after last week's sinking that killed at least 55 people. [ full story | comments ]

- Fears grow for 30 as asylum boat vanishes - The Australian

Coalition: No war memorial ban for Sri Lanka

[ Herald Scotland ][ Jun 11 10:20 GMT ]

The Coalition Government has refused to bow to demands from human rights groups to bar Sri Lanka from an event in Glasgow to commemorate the First World War. Campaigners including Amnesty Scotland had said the country should not be invited because of its appalling human rights record. The Government will mark the centenary of the war after next year's Commonwealth Games with a special service in Glasgow Cathedral followed by a wreath-laying ceremony at the Cenotaph. [ full story | comments ]

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