09/19/2010
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Globe and Mail
Two pregnant women who arrived in Canada on the cargo ship MV Sun Sea will remain in detention for at least another week.
09/18/2010
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Globe and Mail
The Tamil migrants from the MV Sun Sea continue to be detained until their identities can be confirmed – something that will have to wait until Canadianimmigration authorities sift through a jumble of the migrants’ documents and belongings inside two U-Haul trucks.
09/07/2010
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Vancouver Sun
Another ship bearing Tamils fleeing Sri Lanka might be departing for Canada.
08/21/2010
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The Ottawa Citizen
Mohan Samarasinghe worries the Sri Lankan Canadian community is divided on status of refugees from the MV Sun Sea.
08/20/2010
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Globe and Mail
The barely seaworthy Sun Sea eluded authorities for months, and baffled officials warn more are likely to come to Canada
Whispers about a boat headed to Canada began long ago in Thailand’s small and closely knit Tamil community.
Among the regulars at the New Madras Café – a Tamil restaurant in the bustling commercial heart of Bangkok that serves roti, curry and lassis under photographs of the beaches of the Tamil heartland in northern Sri Lanka – there was frequent talk that the infamous Tamil Tigers, or at least some of their ex-operatives, were planning something: A money-raising operation that would also help the organization regroup after its devastating defeat ended Sri Lanka's three-decade civil war.
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.
08/15/2010
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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.
08/13/2010
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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.
08/09/2010
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Amnesty International, Washington Post
The Aug. 4 news story "U.S. monitoring Sri Lankans aiming for North America, asylum" quoted a former Pentagon official who advocated summarily sending approximately 200 Sri Lankan Tamil asylum-seekers, now on a boat heading toward North America, back to Sri Lanka. This is a dangerous, ill-considered position. (LETTER TO THE EDITOR)
08/01/2010
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ColomboPage
Aug 01, Colombo: Canadian authorities are preparing to handle any situation that may be arising from the arrival of a migrant ship carrying Sri Lankan Tamil refugees in Vancouver island some time in the second week of August.