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Tibetan refugees arrive in Victoria, BC
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Via the Times Colonist… The first Tibetan refugees to arrive in Victoria under a federal resettlement program got more than a warm welcome from community members and Santa Claus at Victoria International Airport. They also received a few west coast essentials — tuques and umbrellas. “They didn’t know who this bearded man in red was,... Read more »
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Tibetan refugees arrive in Vancouver!
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Via the Tibet Resettlement Project…
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“Buddha’s Truthful Heirs?” TLKY Canada lecture, U of T, Thurs. Dec 12, 2013 @ 5 pm
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Dear Friend, On behalf of the University of Toronto Scarborough, I invite you to attend our upcoming event, which is part of the 2013-2014 Tung Lin Kok Yuen Perspectives on Buddhist Thought and Culture series (a TLKY Canada event). We are honoured to host Dr. Markus Viehbeck, Assistant Professor at the Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe... Read more »
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Tibetan refugees ready to start over in Ottawa
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Via the Ottawa Citizen… OTTAWA — When Tenzin Tsangyang stepped off the plane in Ottawa on Friday, he says the welcome was so warm he didn’t even feel the cold outside. He is one of 10 stateless Tibetan refugees who travelled here from a settlement in Arunachal Pradesh, a state at the northeast tip of... Read more »
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Canada welcomes first group of 17 new Project Tibet Resettlement newcomers
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Via CBC news… The first group of Tibetans to relocate to Canada under a new federal program arrived by plane in Toronto on Friday. http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/exiled-tibetans-start-move-to-canada-under-resettlement-plan-1.2445180 Via CTV news… http://www.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=1051971 983 more to arrive. More information: www.projecttibetsociety.ca
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