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Sri Lankan Organizations and Associations in Canada and their role: There is a considerable number of Sri Lankan associations in Canada. The main objectives of these associations are to help the immigrants, continue their Sri Lankan traditions and to help Sri Lanka.
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On March 6, 2024, the Wickramasinghe family, Sri Lankan immigrants, were fatally stabbed inside of their house in Barrhaven, a suburb of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Four children were killed, along with their mother, a male family friend and their father was injured. It was the worst mass killing in the city's recent history. [1]
Gary Anandasangaree - Canadian Member of Parliament for Scarborough—Rouge Park; Logan Kanapathi - Markham City Councillor for Ward 7; Amila Gammana - Drayton Valley Town Councillor; Rathika Sitsabaiesan - former Canadian Member of Parliament for Scarborough-Rouge River; Asoka Weerasinghe - former Deputy High Commissioner for Sri Lanka in Canada
MV Sun Sea is a Thai cargo ship that brought 492 Sri Lankan Tamils into British Columbia, Canada, in August 2010. [1] [2] Following their arrival, the passengers—seeking refuge in Canada after the Sri Lankan Civil War—were transferred to detention facilities in the Lower Mainland, [3] for which the Canadian Government would garner heavy criticism from various Canadian advocacy groups.
The Sri Lankan diaspora are Sri Lankan emigrants and expatriates from Sri Lanka that reside in a foreign country.. An estimate in 2013 by the United Nations concluded that the diaspora numbered around three million, with large concentrations in Europe, Middle East, East Asia, Australia and North America.
During a fact-finding mission in Sri Lanka, Sri Lankan media reported Sitsabaiesan had been under house arrest in Jaffna on December 31, 2013. [16] This claim has been denied by Sri Lankan Authorities, [ 17 ] and the Canadian High Commission has confirmed that she was not put under house arrest nor was any arrest warrant issued against her.