Asoka Weerasinghe  Kings Grove Crescent  .  Gloucester  .  Ontario . Canada 7 November 2018 Honourable Doug Ford Premier of Ontario Legislative Building Queen’s Park Toronto, Ontario M74 1A1 Dear Hon. Premier Doug Ford:  Re: Mr. Vijay Thanigasalam, Conservative MPP for Scarborough-Rouge Park’s Statement at the Ontario Legislative Assembly on 30th October, 2018 (Hansard) on Sri […]

Asoka Weerasinghe (Mr.)Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 . Canada 20 July 2018 OPEN LETTER TO R. SAMPANTHAN MP Hon. R. Sampanthan, MP representing TNA Leader of the Opposition of the Government of Sri Lanka Sri Lanka Parliament Colombo, Sri Lanka., Dear Mr. Sampanthan: What is this dishonest garbage that you […]

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario .Canada 10 June 2018 John Argue Amnesty International’s Coordinator for Sri Lanka Toronto Ontario. Dear John: I stumbled onto your interview with Sulochana Ramaiah Mohan which was headlined 40,000 death claim should be researched. Reading it, I wasn’t sure whether I should laugh at it or cry. […]

Asoka .Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 17 May 2018 The Editor (Letters) THE OTTAWA CITIZEN Ottawa Dear Editor: The anti-Buddha witch-hour happened again sharp at 12:45 this morning, when a man carrying about a 6-foot long 2″x 4″ crossed the road opposite the Heron Gate Senior Community Center and entered […]

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . ontario , Canada 30 April 2018 Mona Fortier, Liberal  MP for Ottawa-Vanier Justice Bldg., Suite 809 House of Commons Ottawa K1A 0A6 URGENT FOR YOUR ATTENTION Dear  Ms. Mona Fortier:: By now you may have received an invitation to grace the Closing Forum at the Parliament Hill, […]

 Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent, Gloucester ; Ontario . Canada 29 April 2018 The Editor (Letters) THE OTTAWA CITIZEN Ottawa Dear Editor (Letters) The  moment the heavy iron rod came down on the neck of the white sitting Buddha statue decapitating it on the front lawn of the Buddhist temple, Hilda Jayewardenaramaya, on Heron Road, […]

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 Canada 21 April 2018 Jack MacLaren, Independent (Trillium Party) MPP for Carleton-Mississippi Mills, Ontario Cc. Premier Kathleen Wynne, MPP Dear Jack MacLaren: ‘Sweet Mother of Jesus!’  What’s all this that I read in the Toronto Sun of April 12, 2018,  bylined Bonokoski which […]

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 Canada 16 March 2018 The Editor (Letters) The Ottawa Citizen Dear Editor: On Friday, 16th morning, the Buddhist monks of the Hilda Jayewardenaramaya at 1481 Heron Road, woke up to a heartbreaking sight outside on the Monastery’s front lawn. The four-foot white Buddha […]

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . Canada 12 March 2018 Hon. Chrystia Freeland Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs Room 509S Centre Block, House of Commons Ottawa, On KiA OA6 Dear Minister Chrystia Freeland: As a Sri Lankan Buddhist-Canadian, who has lived in Canada since 1968 and in Ottawa since 1970, permit […]

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 Canada 23 February 2018 Editor (Letters) THE OTTAWA CITIZEN Dear Editior You published Christie Blatchford’s Comment Libs have tolerance for convicted terrorists. on  page NP2 in today’s paper. Wrong! . Libs have tolerance for terrorists, period, as they have shown their promotion of the Tamil Tiger […]

Asoka Weerasinghe (Mr.) Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario .  Canada 26 January, 2018 President Maithripala Sirisena President of Sri Lanka Presidential Secretariat Galle Face, Colombo 1, Sri Lanka Ceremonial Opening of the TGTE Parliament in Canada  Dear President Maithripala Sirisena: By now you may have heard that a major anti-Sri Lanka event took […]

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . Canada 1 January 2018 Garnett Genuis, MP Conservative MP for Sherwood Park-Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta Cc. Matt DeCourcey, Liberal MP Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister  of Foreign Affairs Dear Garnett Genuis: May the year ahead be filled with Happiness, Love and Joy and hopefully will bring […]

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 2 December 2017 Garnett Genuis, MP Conservative MP for Sherwood Park-Fort Saskatchewan Alberta Cc. Matt DeCourcey, Liberal MP Parliamentary Secretary to Minister of Foreign Affairs Dear Garnett Genuis: Re: Your Statement in Parliament  on Sri Lanka’s Tamil Community In Canada, on Nov.20th, 2017. I […]

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 . CANADA. 23 November 2017 (KINDLY PASS THIS LETTER ON TO THE EDITOR) The Editor The Washington Post 1301 K.Street NW Washington DC 20071 US Dear Editor: The article that you published by Kate Cronin-Furman, Are Sri Lankan officers ordering soldiers to sexually […]

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 Canada 15 November 2017 Michael Cooke, The Editor Toronto Star 1 Yonge Street Toronto, Ontario MSE 1E6 Dear Editor: Having returned from abroad after an absence of just over two weeks, I have just read your article Sri Lanka’s military aren’t ready to […]

 Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 . Canada 16 August 2017 Hon. Ranil Wickremesinghe Prime Minister of Sri Lanka No. 58 Sir Ernest De Silva Mawatha Colombo 7 Sri Lanka. Dear Prime Minister: Today, I read in Home News,  that while speaking at a ceremony held at BMICH, Colombo […]

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 . Canada 29 May 2017 Rt. Hon. Maithripala Sirisena President of Sri Lanka Presidential Secretariat Galle Face Colombo 1 Sri Lanka Sir: I have just received by e-mail a  Request for Flood Relief Assistance to Sri Lanka  from our High Commission in Ottawa. […]

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario. K1J 6G1 Canada 19 May 2017 Rt. Hon. Justin Trudeau Prime Minister of Canada Office of the Prime Minister 80 Wellington Street Ottawa, K1A  0A2 ATTENTION: Kate Purchase, Director of Communications – Kindly brief the PM on this letter of utmost concern to many non-Tamil Sri […]

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 . Canada 7 May 2017 Hon. Maithripala Sirisena, President of Sri Lanka Presidential Secretariat Colombo, Sri Lanka. Hon. Ranil Wickremasinghe Prime Minister of Sri Lanka Colombo, Sri Lanka. Cc. Hon Mangala Samaraweera, Minister of Foreign Affairs Colombo, SriLanka Hon. Gayantha Karunatilake Chief Government […]

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1  Canada April 26, 2017 The Editor (Letters) THE OTTAWA CITIZEN Dear Editor: Your news item bylined Stewart Bell – Trudeau in photo with former VP of terror group – Banned WTM affiliated with Tamil Tigers – says one thing about the Liberals, they […]

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 Canada Easter Sunday, 2017 Hon. Dr. Harsha de Silva Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Ministry of Foreign Affairs Colombo Sri Lanka. Dear Dr. Harsha de Silva: Just read your announcement, Deputy Minister Harsha de Silva says that the Government will bear all funeral […]

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . Canada 14 April 2017 Mayor John Tory City Hall, 2nd Floor 100 Queen Street W Toronto, On. M5H 2N2 Dear Mayor John Tory: I wish you a Happy Sinhala &  Tamil New Year. Your personal observation piece on Sri Lanka in the Toronto Star, ‘The quest […]

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario .  Canada 26 February 2017 Hon. Canagasabapathy Viswalingam Wigneswaran Chief Minister of Northern Provincial Council Chief Minister’s Office Kandy Road Kaithady Sri Lanka. Dear CM Wigneswaran: I was somewhat concerned when I read your statement ….because our people would be slowly but steadily chased out from […]

 Asoka Weerasinghe Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . Canada 13 January 2017 Mayor Linda Jeffrey City of Brampton the ‘Flower City’ 2 Wellington Street West, Brampton, ON. L6Y 4R2 Dear Madam Mayor Linda Jeffrey: Re: proposed  marriage of the City of Brampton with Sri Lanka’s northern city Vavuniya as your gender specific, ‘sister-city’. Wow!  What’s […]

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . Canada 6 January 2017 Honourable Maithripala Sirisena, President of Sri Lanka Presidential Secretariat Galle Face, Colombo 1 Sri Lanka CC;Hon. Ranil Wickremesinghe, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka His Grace Archbishop of Colombo, Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith Dear President Maithripala Sirisena: Re: Sri Lanka’s Tallest Christmas Tree on […]

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 . Canada 27 December, 2016 OPEN LETTER to Hon. Maithripala Sirisena, President of Sri Lanka Presidential Secretariat Galle Face Colombo 1 Sri Lanka & Hon. Ranil Wickremesinghe, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka. Prime Minister’s Office Colombo 1, Sri Lanka cc; His Eminence Archbishop […]

 Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester  . Ontario . K1J 6G1 . Canada 22 December 2016 Honourable Maithripala Sirisena President of Sri Lanka Presidential Secretariat Galle Face Colombo 1 Sri Lanka Hon. Ranil Wickremesinghe, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka Your Eminence, Archbishop of Colombo, Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith Re: End of the Year, the State of […]

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 . Canada 19 December 2016 His Eminence Archbishop of Colombo, Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith The Archbishop’s House Borella 00800 Colombo 08 Sri Lanka Your Grace: Re: Controversial Christmas Tree Guinness Dream coming True This is my third letter on this subject and the first […]

Asoka Weerasinghe  Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 . Canada. 16 December 2016 Hon. Maithripala Sirisena President of Sri Lanka Presidential Secretariat Galle Face Colombo 1 Sri Lanka cc. His Eminence Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith, Archbishop of Colombo Prime Minister Hon. Ranil Wickremesinghe.  Re: The Tallest Christmas Tree Saga continues Dear President […]

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Gove Crescent .  Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 . Canada Hounarable Mithripala Sirisena President of Sri Lanka Presidential Secretariat Galle Face Colombo 1 Sri Lanka Archbishop of Colombo, Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith Re:  The Tallest Christmas Tree in the World 2016 Dear President Sirisena: When I read that this stupid ChristmasTree Project […]