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Legalizing marijuana could violate global treaties, Trudeau warned Canada faces a long, hard slog in the global arena before it can legalize marijuana at home. Share on Facebook PATRICK DOYLE / THE CANADIAN PRESS FILE PHOTO A briefing note prepared for Justin Trudeau warns Canada will have to find a way to tell the world how it plans to conform to its treaty obligations if it follows through on the plan to legalize marijuana. …

Let Christmas bring consolation to people in "tortured regions" - Pope [TamilNet, Tuesday, 25 December 2007, 14:10 GMT] Pope Benedict XVI, in his Christmas Day appeal to political leaders around the world asked them to draw on their "wisdom and courage" to end bloody conflicts in the world. The Pope said he hoped Christmas would bring consolation to all people "who live in the darkness of poverty, injustice and war," in particular those living in the "tortured regions" of the world including Sri Lanka. Pope Benedict XVI urges to seek humane, just and lasting solutions.The Pope mentioned Darfur, Somalia, northern Congo, the Eritrea-Ethiopia border, Iraq, Leban…

The Rt. Hon. Boris Johnson MP 10 Downing Street London SW1A 2AA Dear Prime Minister, Please accept our hearty congratulations on your overwhelming victory in the 2019 general election. The British Tamils Forum (BTF) notes with gratitude, that it was the Conservative Party that took the initiative for setting up an international investigation on the atrocity crimes committed in Sri Lanka during the conflict in 2009, when Rt. Hon. David Cameron was the Prime Minister. We humbly request that under your premiership you will continue to gather momentum and put genuine, maximum effort to find a lasting peaceful solution for the…

Letter to Tony Blair. 11 Concord Terrace Colescrescent Harrow Middl esex HA2 0HJ Rt Hon. Prime Minister 10 Downing Street London 16 March 2006 Dear Prime Minister …

Liam Fox, Adam Werritty, Lord Bell, Bell Pottinger And Sri Lanka Let’s summarise what we know so far . Bell Pottinger is the PR firm that has taken, among its clientele , the wife of Syria’s President Assad, the Pinochet dictatorship, the Lukashenko dictatorship, and the Bahraini government. Bell Pottinger is overseen by Lord Bell, who was previously an advisor to Margaret Thatcher. Sri Lanka paid Bell Pottinger £3,000,000 for PR. Bell Pottinger sub-contracted PR work lobbying for Sri Lanka in America, to Qorvis Communications. As Sunday Times Sri Lanka reported last year: The conduct of Sri Lanka’s foreign policy nowadays is more expensive. Not…

A Calendar is conceived and designed by logic and astronomy rather than emotions and myths of politics. If people don’t understand the calendar they follow, educate them. If any section of the society thinks that the calendar is its prerogative, liberate the calendar, rather than mutilating it or abandoning it. If there is any problem in the calendar it has to be investigated and corrected by a forum of astronomers, climatologists and environmental scientists, sitting along with traditional astronomers historians and Tamil scholars. Any society, which doesn’t care to investigate and understand its own heritage of science, is not going to make any progress. It will always …

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Health: 1. Drink plenty of water 2. Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a beggar 3. Eat more foods that grow on trees and plants, and eat less food that is manufactured in plants (factories) 4. Live with the 3 E's -- Energy, Enthusiasm, and Empathy 5. Make time for prayer 6. Play more games 7. Read more books than you did last year 8. Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day 9. Sleep for 7 hours 10. Take a 10-30 minutes walk every day ---- and while you walk, SMILE !! Personality: 11. Don't compare your life to others'. You have no idea what their journey is all about. 12. Don't have negative thoug…

Life in embattled Batticaloa PK Balachandran Batticaloa (Eastern Sri Lanka), April 1, 2007 Batticaloa district in 2007 has acquired a reputation which it did not have in the last 25 years of the military conflict in North East Sri Lanka. This relatively peaceful Eastern Sri Lankan district has become a very dangerous place to visit, making even seasoned journalists wonder if it is safe. The reason is the change in weaponry and tactics used in the conflict. There is now an overwhelming reliance on long distance fighting with artillery, 'arty' mortars, Multi-Barrel Rocket Launchers (MBRL) and jet fighter bombers. And the shelling from the gro…

Life in Vanni; Then & Now By: K.Mylvaganam Courtesy: TamilCanadian - January 22, 2008 Life in Vanni is both a bed of Roses and Thorns. It all depends to a great extent as to how one perceives things. For example if one were to miss watching the TV and other related facilities due to the lack of electricity and if one were to get terrified at the thundering noise of the KFir bombers and the frequent fall of artillery shells, then life becomes a Bed of Thorns. But on the other hand if we were to pat our backs and say that we are safe from all the ill effects of the TV; particularly the brain washing by the south Indian films and soap operas that ruins our…

List of Black Money holders in Swiss Bank accounts leaked by WikiLeaks? If the latest guideline of Supreme Court is to be followed, the entire list of black money account holders should be out by the early hours of October 29. The Apex Court has ordered the Narendra Modi-led central government to reveal the entire list of perpetrators who are guilty of stocking up unaccounted sums of money. A day after the government revealed the names of Pradeep Burman (Promoter of Dabur India), Pankaj Chimanlal Lodhiya (Rajkot-based bullion trader), Radha Satish Timblo (Director of Goa-based mining company Timblo Pvt. Ltd), the SC lashed out the government …

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The International Women’s Day culminated with vibrant celebrations and appreciation toward women who have succeeded in life. And then, there are those women who represent the estate sector, farmer and fisheries communities, janitorial service, prostitution and many other blue-collar professions that never get appreciated. Female migrant labourers too are part of this segment. Amid numerous hardships and ordeals, they continue to send in dollars to bolster the economy. In a recently launched publication titled ‘Foreign Migrant Labour Mafia: The Blood, Tears and Coins,’ it was revealed that between 2009 and 2017, as many as 822,758 women have left for work in Middle Eastern…

U.S. urges Sri Lanka to address Human Rights issues The United States has urged the Sri Lankan Government to fulfill all of the recommendations of the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation report and also address those issues that the report did not cover. “We’re still studying the full report, I do have to say that we have concerns that the report, nonetheless, does not fully address all the allegations of serious human rights violations that occurred in the final phase of the conflict. So this leaves questions about accountability,” U.S. department of State spokesperson Victoria Nuland told reporters in response to a question in Washington DC on Monday. To an…

Local government elections in Batticaloa after 14 years Local government elections for nine Regional Councils including Batticaloa Municipal Council are to take place on Monday 10 March after a lapse of 14 years and all arrangements related to them have been made, Mahintha Desapriya, Deputy Election Commissioner said. 831 candidates representing 6 political parties and 22 independent groups will contest in these elections in which 101 members are to be elected. 2,70471 registered voters are eligible to vote in this election. The Special District Election Office has begun to function from Sunday morning at Batticaloa Hindu College and voting will tak…

BRITISH Tamils are to celebrate the United Nations-sponsored International Day of Peace on Thursday (September 21) by holding vigils across London urging "peace with dignity" for Tamils of Sri Lanka. The event is being organized by the North Harrow-Tamil Councillors and Associates, a cross-party organisation. The group's chairman is Labour Harrow councillor Thaya Idaikkadar. continued... The vigils will be held in front of Harrow Civic Centre and Brent Town Halls from noon to 8pm and will start with a moment of silence. The organisers said they expected local dignitaries and MPs to attend the events. They said: "The Tamil people in Sri Lanka hav…

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021 BY DINITHA RATHNAYAKE 0 COMMENTS Allegedly makes LTTE suspects kneel at gunpoint Beauty queen among earlier Welikada revellers BY Dinitha Rathnayake State Minister of Prison Management and Prisoners’ Rehabilitation Lohan Ratwatte who, as exclusively reported by The Morning on Monday (13) had allegedly forcibly entered the Welikada Prison premises with a group of his friends whilst under the influence of liquor, had allegedly similarly entered the Anuradhapura Prison on Sunday (12) evening. According to sources, the State Minister, who hails from an influential political family, had attempted to degrade and punish…

Nearly 2,500 drivers have been hit with fines for using road lanes reserved for London 2012 Olympics VIPs, transport bosses have said. Transport for London figures show that £312,000 has been paid by drivers who were caught driving in the Games Lanes, despite being given a six-day period of grace when they were first introduced. Only warnings were issued in that time to give drivers a chance to get used to the idea. The 30 miles (48km) of lanes, used to transport athletes, officials and the media, were brought in on July 25. But last week, London mayor Boris Johnson admitted that many of the lanes had been “turned off” because they were not needed because so …

London police avert car bomb 'carnage'. A car bomb planted in central London would have caused "carnage" if it had exploded, police sources have said. A controlled explosion was carried out on the car, packed with 60 litres of petrol, gas cylinders and nails, in Haymarket, near Piccadilly Circus. An ambulance crew saw smoke coming from the green metallic Mercedes, near the Tiger Tiger nightclub at 0130 BST. Later part of London's Park Lane was closed to traffic after reports of a suspicious vehicle. A Scotland Yard spokeswoman said that Park Lane was closed at Marble Arch to Hyde Park Corner and a 200m cordon put in place. It would also…

Thousands of people have been attending mass ceremonies in India at which hundreds of low-caste Hindus (Dalits) converted to Buddhism and Christianity. The events in the central city of Nagpur are part of a protest against the injustices of India's caste system. By converting, Dalits - once known as Untouchables - can escape the prejudice and discrimination they normally face. The ceremonies mark the 50th anniversary of the adoption of Buddhism by the scholar Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar. He was the first prominent Dalit to urge low-caste Indians to embrace Buddhism. As the chief architect of India's constitution, he wrote anti-discrimination provisio…

In a paper published in the latest issue of the US Defence Department's journal 'Prism', Sri Lanka's Defence Secretary, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, has reiterated his belief that Islamic terrorism poses a threat to Sri Lanka. Since the LTTE's defeat, some of the Muslim groups in Lanka have begun to engage in activities that go 'far beyond self-protection', he said in the journal brought out by the Center for Complex Operations (CCO). 'There is information that some of these groups have even tried to link up with global Islamic terrorist organisations. This is a situation that requires careful monitoring,' Gotabaya said. 'Some Islamic groups in Lanka have started to…

LTTE (Tamil Tigers) - Explained In 18 minutes by Indian Commando Military-themed episodes of The Ranveer Show are always well-received. In this episode, we present Major Abhay Sapru, one of the most eloquent military veterans I’ve had the pleasure of interacting with. Para-SF podcasts are something that always blows my mind. One thing that always outshines in such conversations is the killer special forces mindset. Commissioned in 1988, Abhay Sapru volunteered for the elite Special Forces. During his decade-long stint with the Indian Army, he served in areas like Sri Lanka, Kashmir, and the North-East of India. He currently works for a private bank and alongside,…

LTTE activists campaigning to gain support from British parliamentarians R. SRIKANTHAN in London UK: According to LTTE circles a determined effort is made by its campaigners to obtain signatures from British parliamentarians criticising Sri Lankan government handling the present crisis in the island. Already two left wing parliamentarians have signed the petition and the campaigners are experiencing difficulties as others approached are not willing to put forward their names. In a political meeting held on February 11th in East London, attended by Nava Sama Samaja Party leader Dr. Wickramabahu Karunaratna, the pro-LTTE speakers appealed to the publ…