Please Help

   The death toll from the earthquake/tsunami disaster has risen to over 100,000. Wherever you are, please send what help you can. Can you give some food or some clothing? They will need so very, very much. If you are here in Toronto, there are already several places set up to collect donations. The Toronto police are accepting cash donations at every one of their stations. For a listing of the locations,click here.
   If there can be anything good deemed to arise from this horrendous calamity, then the following might be a positive result. "The disaster, which has killed more than 22,000 in Sri Lanka, "will bring peace and unity," predicted Srimal Abeyewardene, a Sinhalese journalist who covered from Colombo the rise of guerrilla war in the 1980s. "It's a good launching pad for peace because the two sides have to participate together to get supplies around, to bury the dead. Everyone is devastated: the army, the navy and the Tigers." The Tamils and the majority Sinhalese have been at war for more than two decades with a death toll mounting to over 64,000 people because of the ethnic feuding. If only they could have found a way to make peace before nature leveled the playing field. Natural disasters play no favourites, so Tamil and Sinhalese both died. Perhaps, in honour of those who were swept away, the wilful bloodshed can finally be brought to a halt. Perhaps, too, this peace-from-disaster could be brought to other areas of former strife that were hit by the tsunamis. Perhaps.