Posts Tagged ‘News’
Want your HST cheque? File a tax returnBy Editor - April 9th, 2010 |
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There are more reasons than ever to file a tax return this year, Ontario’s revenue minister said Friday. John Wilkinson dropped by a free tax clinic in downtown Toronto to remind Ontario residents about the coming April 30 deadline to file their returns. |
Six-month asylum stand-off to end ‘in five days’By Editor - April 8th, 2010 |
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THE six-month impasse between Indonesian authorities and a group of about 240 asylum seekers who refused to leave their boat in the port of Merak appears to be ending, after the Sri Lankans were told they would have to move to accommodation ”near Singapore”. |
Why some Peel kids eat lunch at 9:50 a.m.By Editor - April 8th, 2010 |
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It’s not even ten in the morning and Krisha Ravikantharaja is getting ready to eat lunch in the Glenforest Secondary school cafeteria. School only started about an hour and half ago. It is only second period, but already lunch time for some of the students – at 9:50 a.m. |
Rwandan genocidaire leads middle-class life in AlabamaBy Editor - April 6th, 2010 |
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Jean Damascene Bizimana, 56, a Rwandan politician, wanted for his alleged role in the Rwandan Genocide, with a pending warrant for arrest against him by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), has been discovered leading a middle-class life as an American citizen in the small town of Opelika, Alabama, David L. Bosco, a professor at the American University, Washington D.C. reported in the weekend Washington Post. Bizimana was Rwanda’s UN Ambassador at the time when the assassination of Rwanda’s president unleashed a horrific three-month genocide that would ultimately kill 800,000 people. |
16th Year Remembrance of the Rwandan GenocideBy Editor - April 5th, 2010 |
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Today marks the 16th remembrance year of the Rwandan Genocide. Our thoughts are with those unfortunate victims of the Rwandan Genocide, and all those who have suffered under genocidal programs. |
Tortured Jaffna undergrad commits suicideBy Editor - April 3rd, 2010 |
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26-year-old Balasingham Karunanithi, a third year student of the Faculty of Management in Jaffna University, arrested and tortured by Sri Lanka Army (SLA) when he was held in a Vavuniyaa detention camp after the war on Vanni, committed suicide in Jaffna at a house in Naachchimaar Koayiladi where he was staying, sources in Jaffna said. Karunanithi is the fourth Vanni undergraduate of Jaffna University to commit suicide due to mental derangement resulting from their detention in SLA detention centres in Vavuniyaa, the sources added. A medical faculty student and two first year girl students of Jaffna University had committed suicide after the final offensive on Vanni. |
Tamil refugees told to get out of Sri Lanka or suffer persecutionBy Editor - April 2nd, 2010 |
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THOUSANDS of desperate Tamil refugees in Sri Lanka have a stark choice: stay and be persecuted or risk the long, dangerous voyage to Australia. A senior diplomat, experienced in people smuggling matters, said Sri Lanka’s government cared about neither the refugees’ fate nor Australia’s boat people predicament. |
1999 part of ReelWorld festival in Toronto: to be screened April 9By Editor - April 2nd, 2010 |
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When the Toronto-made movie 1999 made its debut at the Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF) in October, the Tamil Canadian community praised it for its “rare and powerful story” about the violence that swept Sri Lankan immigrants living in Scarborough in the late 1990s. 1999 was ranked as one of the top ten films at VIFF and also won best film award at the Oslo Tamil Film Festival this year. It will be hitting the screen once again at the 10th annual ReelWorld Film Festival in Toronto. The five-day festival, which runs from April 7 to 11, screens full-length features, shorts, documentaries and animation pieces made by members of multi-racial communities. |
Tamil asylum seekers battle rat plagueBy Editor - March 31st, 2010 |
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Sri Lankan asylum seekers refusing to leave a boat in Indonesia are battling a plague of rats as they mark six months aboard the vessel. The Sri Lankans boarded the Jaya Lestari 5 cargo boat bound for Australia in early October last year. The Indonesian Navy apprehended the boat at Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s request about ten days later |
Thieves targeting visible high-tech goodies left in carsBy Editor - March 31st, 2010 |
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Thieves hit 55 vehicles a day, Toronto police say, warning motorists to keep electronics out of sight. “We know what thieves look for: GPS units, laptops, cellphones, tools, even sunglasses and loose change,” said the Insurance Bureau of Canada’s vice-president of investigations. |
