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Everyone "At the touch of love, everyone becomes a from poet" ~ Plato (424/423 BC-3348/347 BC) 4.0% Philosopher. Pink rose, Maskeliya, Sri Lanka [humanityashore.org] Monsoon Journal A parfait media publication VOL3 ISSUE 1 JUNE 2008 Monsoon Toronto's Tamil Community raises over half a Million Dollars for Canadian Healthcare System 31 Father’s Day 32 Humans and Animals... 36 Picture taken on June 8th at Kids Town Water Park during presentation of the 9th Annual Walkathon as President of Canadian Tamils' Chamber of Commerce, Turkish Cuisine Gary Anandasangaree introducing Federal & Provincial Political leaders & Hospital Foundation Presidents, Sponsors & well-wishers and commending on the excel- lent work done by the co-chairs of this event and all the participants who helped for this worthy cause. (L-R) Brian Dawe, President, Scarborough Hospital Foundation, Mohan Sundaramohan, Branch Manager, RBC Royal Bank (Co-Chair-CTCC Walkathon-2008), Tam Sivathasan, Broker of Record, Veedu Realty (MC for Auction-Walkathon-2008), Jennifer Stewart, President, Providence Healthcare Foundation, Bas Balkissoon, MPP, Scarborough-Rouge River, Jeganathan Balasundaram, Financial Security Advisor, London Life (Co-Chair-Walkathon-2008), Hon. Gerry Phillips, MPP, Scarborough-Agincourt & Minister of Energy, Sritharan Thurairajah, Insurance Advisor, Liland Insurance (Co-Chair-CTCC Walkathon-2008), Hon. Jim Karygiannis, MP, Scarborough-Agincourt, Gary Anandasangaree, Barrister & Solicitor (President of CTCC) 35 Photo Courtesy: Gnane By Siva Sivapragasam ized by the Canadian Tamils' raised so far for the Health Care dence Healthcare Foundation. Vaanavil Chamber of Commerce while institutions mentioned above is as The funds collected for the The Canadian Tamil communi- Centenary Hospital funding was follows: Scarborough Hospital Foundation Monsoon Health 9 ty in Toronto, now numbering the result of a Baby Steps will be of use for the new over 250,000, has shown it's grat- Walkathon organized by a team of Bowlathon Events Emergency Unit while the Monsoon Arts 18 itude to Canada which offered volunteers headed by $ 250.000 Centenary Hospital will utilize the them great opportunities by con- Businessman Kula Sellathurai. CTCC Walkathons funds from the Baby Steps tributing more than $500.000.00 Providence Healthcare Foundation $ 170,000 Walkathon for the new Birthing Monsoon Real Estate 23 to it's health care system. was the recipient of the funds col- Baby steps Walkathons and New Born Center. Providence The Funds totaling $535.000 lected by the Bowlathon events $ 115,000 Healthcare Foundation will make were raised over the recent years for which the lead sponsor since use of the funds given to them for Waterloo News 33-335 by way of Annual Walkathons and inception was RJ Multi Litho Inc., The total of $ 535.000 raised the Tamil Caregiver Project. Bowlathons. The Annual a printing firm owned by a Sri so far is being disbursed to the (More details of this year's Monsoon Film Review 46 Walkathons for the Scarborough Lankan -Rajeev Muthuraman. Scarborough Hospital Foundation, CTCC Walkathon on Centre Hospital Foundation were organ- A break-down of the Funds Centenary Hospital and Provi- Pages) Wanted Medical Secretaries Medical Secretaries are needed for a clinic in Scarborough. Three Full time positions are available. Candidates must speak excellent English and Tamil. Please fax resumes to 416-292-0677 2 JUNE 2008 MONSOON JOURNAL All cricket participants (from age 8 - 13) please pre-register with one of the following persons MONSOON JOURNAL JUNE 2008 3 India, China compete in Indian Ocean HAMBANTOTA, Sri Lanka: This are building in Sri Lanka, an island middle of Sri Lanka's civil war. battered harbor town on Sri country just off India's southern Hambantota also will have facto- Lanka's southern tip, with its coast. ries onsite producing cement and scrawny men selling even The Chinese insist the fertilizer for export, he said. scrawnier fish, seems an unlikely Hambantota port is a purely com- Meanwhile, India is clearly focus for an emerging internation- mercial move, and by all appear- gearing its military expansion al competition over energy supply ances, it is. But some in India see toward China rather than its long- routes that fuel much of the glob- ominous designs behind the proj- time foe, and India has set up lis- al economy. ect, while others in countries sur- tening stations in Mozambique An impoverished place still rounding India like the idea. A and Madagascar, in part to moni- recovering from the devastation 2004 Pentagon report called tor Chinese movements, Bedi of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsuna- Beijing's effort to expand its pres- noted. It also has an air base in mi, Hambantota has a desolate ence in the region China's "string Kazakhstan and a space monitor- air, a sense of nowhereness, of pearls." ing post in Mongolia - both punctuated by the realization that No one wants war, and rela- China's neighbors. Officially, China says it's not increasingly sophisticated subma- looking south over the expanse of tions between the two nations are India has announced plans to worried about India's military rine fleet that could eventually be ocean, the next landfall is now at their closest since a brief have a fleet of aircraft carriers buildup or its closer ties with the one of the world's largest. Antarctica. 1962 border war in which China and nuclear submarines at sea in U.S. However, foreign analysts While analysts believe China's But just over the horizon runs quickly routed Indian forces. Last the next decade and recently test- believe China is deeply concerned military buildup is mostly focused one of the world's great trade year, trade between India and ed nuclear-capable missiles that by the possibility of a U.S.-Indian on preventing U.S. intervention in arteries, the shipping lanes where China grew to US$37 billion put China's major cities well in military alliance. any conflict with Taiwan, India is thousands of vessels carry oil (€24.8 billion) and their two range. It is also reopening air Ian Storey of the Institute of still likely to persist in efforts to from the Middle East and raw armies conducted their first-ever force bases near the Chinese bor- Southeast Asian Studies in catch up as China expands its materials to Asia, returning with joint military exercise. der. Singapore said China sent strong influence in what is essentially television sets, toys and sneakers Still, the Indians worry about Encouraging India's role as a diplomatic messages expressing India's backyard. Meanwhile, Sri for European consumers. China's growing influence. counter to China, the U.S. has opposition to a massive naval Lankans - who have looked warily These tankers provide 80 per- "Each pearl in the string is a stepped up exercises with the exercise India held last year with for centuries at vast India to the cent of China's oil and 65 percent link in a chain of the Chinese mar- Indian navy and last year sold it the U.S., Japan, Singapore and north - welcome the Chinese of India's - fuel desperately need- itime presence, " India's navy an American warship for the first Australia. And Bedi, the Jane's investment in their country. ed for the two countries' rapidly chief, Adm. Sureesh Mehta, said time, the 17,000-ton amphibious analyst, added "those exercises "Our lives are going to growing economies. Japan, too, is in a speech in January, expressing transport dock USS Trenton. rattled the Chinese." change," said 62-year-old almost totally dependent on ener- concern that naval forces operat- American defense contractors - India's 2007 defense budget Jayasena Senanayake, who has gy supplies shipped through the ing out of ports established by the shut out from the lucrative Indian was about US$21.7 billion (€14.1 seen business grow at his road- Indian Ocean. Chinese could "take control over market during the long Cold War - billion), up 7.8 percent from 2006. side food stall since construction Any disruption - from terror- the world energy jugular." have been offering India's military China said its 2008 military budg- began on the nearby port. "What ism, piracy, natural disaster or "It is a pincer movement," everything from advanced fighter et would jump 17.6 percent to China is doing for us is very war - could have devastating said Rahul Bedi, a South Asia ana- jets to anti-ship missiles. some US$59 billion (€38.3 bil- good." effects on these countries and, in lyst with London-based Jane's "It is in our interest to devel- lion), following a similar increase Associated Press writer an increasingly interdependent Defense Weekly. "That, together op this relationship," U.S. Defense last year. The U.S. estimates Christopher Bodeen contributed world, send ripples across the with the slap India got in 1962, Secretary Robert Gates said dur- China's actual defense spending to this report from Beijing. globe. When an unidentified ship keeps them awake at night." ing a visit to New Delhi in may be much higher. [Courtesy: AP, Via I nter- attacked a Japanese oil tanker B. Raman, a hawkish, retired February. "Just as it is in the Like India, China is focusing national Herald Tribune] traveling through the Indian Indian intelligence official, Indians' interest." heavily on its navy, building an Ocean from South Korea to Saudi expressed the fears of some Arabia in April, the news sent oil Indians over the Chinese-built prices to record highs. ports, saying he believes they'll For decades the world relied be used as naval bases to control on the powerful U.S. Navy to pro- the area. tect this vital sea lane. But as "We cannot take them at face India and China gain economic value.

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