11/23/2010
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Vancouver Sun
VANCOUVER — Canada's acceptance of refugee claims from Sri Lanka plummeted in September, the month following the arrival of a boatload of 492 Tamil migrants, new immigration data show.
09/11/2010
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Vancouver Sun
A penchant for triumphalism is never an attractive or useful quality, but unfortunately it appears to be one with which Sri Lanka's president Mahinda Rajapaksa is overly well endowed.
09/07/2010
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Vancouver Sun
Another ship bearing Tamils fleeing Sri Lanka might be departing for Canada.
08/14/2010
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Vancouver Sun
From the Komagata Maru carrying 376 Punjabi passengers and the SS St. Louis travelling with 900 Jewish asylum seekers, to the boats with 600 people from China's Fujian province and the Ocean Lady that docked in B.C. last year with Tamil refugees - there is something about boatloads of migrants that triggers a national hysteria. Perhaps it is the realization that the expanse of ocean is not enough to enforce the divide between the West and the so-called Third World.
07/10/2010
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Montreal Gazette, Vancouver Sun
VANCOUVER — The Canada Border Services Agency now admits it has no proof that 25 Sri Lankan boat migrants it labelled as terrorists and kept behind bars for months were in fact members of the outlawed Tamil Tigers.