08/18/2010
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National Post
The Canadian Tamil Congress is “deeply concerned” that Ottawa’s rhetoric about the arrival of migrants aboard a suspected people-smuggling ship could “undermine” ongoing investigations and spur “more than a backlash of words” against the Canadian Tamil community.
08/17/2010
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Channel News Asia
VANCOUVER, Canada : Canadian authorities are investigating whether Sri Lankan rebels financed the passage of some 500 Tamil refugees to Canada last week, officials said before the start of detention hearings.
08/17/2010
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National Post
You’re shivering in the sharp cold of a winter’s night outside of the hottest club in town. You try your hardest to attract the attention of the doorman. You smile and say clever things to your friends in a raised voice to look more deserving than everyone else in line. Eventually — if you’re lucky — he unclips the velvet rope, the door swings open and you’re swept into the party. He refastens the rope. Now everyone behind you is a sucker.
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
08/16/2010
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The Australian
ASYLUM-SEEKERS travelling to Australia have been identified by Sri Lanka as members of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam.
08/15/2010
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The Province
Members of the Tamil community are meeting in Burnaby on Sunday to discuss the plight of 450 illegal migrants who arrived in Canada on Friday.
08/15/2010
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National Post (Canada)
VICTORIA — A day after Canadian officials said the migrants who travelled from Thailand to British Columbia aboard a cargo ship had arrived in surprisingly good health, a report has surfaced that one man may have died during the journey.
08/15/2010
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The Star
EDITORIAL: Canada doesn’t have a Tamil “problem,” whatever critics of our refugee system may say about the arrival here of the cargo freighter MV Sun Sea with some 500 asylum-seekers. We processed 34,000 refugee claims last year; these arrivals won’t overtax the system.
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.