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CBC
05-08-2025
- CBC
1 dead after fight in Brampton park: police
A person has died after a fight broke out in Brampton's Chinguacousy Park on Tuesday morning, said police. Police responded to calls about a fight at Centre Street and Queen Street around 12:30 a.m. At the scene, two people were found with serious injuries and one person was dead, said Peel Regional Police in a statement . "This is an isolated incident and there is no threat to public safety," says the statement. Police say a suspect has been arrested. Paramedics say the injured adults were taken to hospital with minor injuries.
CBC
11-05-2025
- Politics
- CBC
Tamil Genocide Memorial unveiled in Brampton after years-long wait
After a three-year delay, the Tamil Genocide Memorial, meant to honor lives lost in the Sri Lankan civil war, was unveiled in Brampton Saturday night to the sound of applause, cheers and cannons of confetti. Hundreds flooded Brampton's Chinguacousy Park for the unveiling ceremony, looking forward to the moment the large red veil would be torn away from the monument they've waited years to see in fruition. Mayor Patrick Brown promised to build the monument back in 2021 after a memorial in Sri Lanka was torn down, sparking outrage among the Tamil diaspora around the world. That includes Brampton, home to roughly 12,000 Tamil people. "Many of the civilians that escaped came to Canada as part of our national story," said Brown after the unveiling. "If you're not Indigenous, everyone has come from somewhere else, and we celebrate the difficult Tamil journey and we remember the atrocities that the community went through." Tamil people faced violent persecution in Sri Lanka since its independence from the British Empire in 1948. According to the United Nations, an estimated 80,000 to 100,000 Tamil people were killed in violent riots and hundreds of thousands more were displaced. "Almost everyone here has some loved one lost in the war," said Sri Ranjan, chairperson of the National Council of Canadian Tamils. "This place serves as a place to gather and to remember the victims." Project faced several delays Local Tamil groups helped raise funds for the memorial, with Brampton city council approving its final design in February last year. The aim was to finish the memorial by May 2022, a goalpost that kept getting pushed back because of a delay in the project's leadership, a funding shortfall and a design change. The initial design was supposed to be a plant-like structure, which beat 100,000 alternatives in a competition. But that design faced opposition and was scrapped in favour of the 4.8-metre tall stainless steel structure featuring an outline of the historic homeland of Tamil people in Sri Lanka. The monument faced objections in the past from the Sri Lankan High Commission and a delegation from Sri Lankan Canadian Association, who denied that a genocide took place and instead wanted the monument to commemorate "all lives lost" in the war. The National Council of Canadian Tamils will have ownership of the monument and will be responsible for maintaining it.
