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Thought for the Day

Independence is happiness.

- Susan B. Anthony

 

The history of our freedom

AFTER 60 years of Independence we are at a stage where we should look at the country and ask ourselves whether we have achieved any economic, social, religious or national development during the last half century. This is the result of our slavish mentality as we understand our public have no true desire to develop and uplift the country.

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Rising food prices a serious threat

For as long as most people can remember, food has been getting cheaper and farming has been in decline. In 1974 - 2005 food prices on world markets fell by three-quarters in real terms. Food today is so cheap that the West is battling gluttony even as it scrapes piles of half-eaten leftovers into the bin.

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The Canadian Peril

THE October 2002 bombing of a night club in Bali and a 1996 truck bomb attack in Colombo, also had Canadian connections. The leader of the Canadian branch of the Tigers, Manickavasagam Suresh, arrested in 1995 as a threat to national security and ordered deported, is still in Canada 13 years later.

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