09/28/2011
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The Globe and Mail
With 300,000 Tamils living in Canada, the demand that Colombo reconcile with its minority is based on a mixture of principle and politics
03/17/2011
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The Globe and Mail
A Sri Lankan man who arrived aboard a cargo ship last year has been ordered deported after admitting to once being a member of the Tamil Tigers, but insisting he quit the banned terrorist group nearly two decades ago and never participated in combat.
03/09/2011
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The Globe and Mail
The migrant is one of 492 MV Sun Sea passengers who arrived in B.C. last August
01/10/2011
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The Globe and Mail
New policy could affect refugee claimants from Ocean Lady and MV Sun Sea
10/11/2010
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The Globe and Mail
Covert operation part of strategy to pre-empt arrival of smuggling ship, expert says
08/16/2010
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The Globe and Mail
Pact would help stop shiploads of Tamils from heading for Canada, high commissioner says
08/13/2010
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The Globe and Mail
As it grapples with screening nearly 500 illegal migrants intercepted off the B.C. coast, the Canadian government is operating on the assumption that two more shiploads of potential asylum seekers are preparing to sail here from Southeast Asia.
08/13/2010
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The Globe and Mail
Almost as soon as the Sun Sea set sail, two Canadas scrambled to respond – and how they get along could decide the fate of hundreds of asylum seekers, present and future.
08/11/2010
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The Globe and Mail
Man who wants to be a refugee waits - and dislikes relying on welfare
05/02/2010
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The Globe and Mail
Tamil Canadians turned out by the thousands to cast ballots in a controversial election, described as “illegal” by Sri Lankan officials, to choose members for a “transnational government” of a non-existent Tamil state within the South Asian island country.
Turnout was reportedly high in Toronto, which is home to more than half of Canada’s estimated 200,000 Sri Lankan Tamils, many of whom fled their country after civil war broke out between the separatist Tamil Tigers and the national government in 1983.