11/15/2010
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Colombo Page
Sri Lanka : Ships to anchor in Sri Lanka\'s Hambanthota harbor on November 19 (Sri Lanka - latest news stories and top headlines)
09/13/2010
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Globe and Mail
The warnings from Canadians posted to the Colombo office came months before a suspected human-smuggling operation shipped more than 400 Tamils to British Columbia aboard a vessel known as the Sun Sea.
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.
08/16/2010
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The Globe and Mail
Pact would help stop shiploads of Tamils from heading for Canada, high commissioner says
08/15/2010
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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.
08/14/2010
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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.
08/14/2010
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SOS Children's Villages Canada
14/8/2010 - At least 30 and as many as 50 of the 490 Tamil refugees arriving in Vancouver yesterday are children.
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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AFP
VICTORIA — Hundreds of Sri Lankan asylum seekers on board a cargo ship arrived at a naval base in western Canada on Friday, escorted by a naval frigate and police helicopters.