Montreal Archives - Ceylon Independent

A Canadian court has ruled that there will not be a new trial for a Sri Lankan refugee who was accused of killing his wife since he has already been deported. Quebec's Court of Appeal has dismissed the Crown's request for a new trial in the case of Sivaloganathan Thanabalasingam, who was charged of his wife's murder in 2012 but set free by the court in June last year after the length of his criminal proceedings exceeded the legal limit. In a 4-1 decision, the appellate court decided today the appeal is moot because Sivaloganathan Thanabalasingham has already been deported from Canada to his native Sri Lanka, the Canadian Press reported. Thanabalasingam was arrested in August 2012 after his 21-year-old wife, Anuja Baskaran's body was found in their apartment in the Ahuntsic neighbo...

The humble text message has reached its 25th birthday, and it sure has come a long way. The first ever SMS (Short Message Service) was sent by British engineer Neil Papworth on 3 December, 1992. He wrote “Merry Christmas” to his colleague Richard Jarvis. Jarvis, a director at the London-based telecom company Vodafone UK, received the text message while at the company’s holiday party. “I’m proud and I’m happy that I did what I did,” Papworth said in an interview from Montreal. Since then, the text message which is sent through the phone service provider, has been joined by social messaging services such as WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger and Snapchat, which use the internet, with the text evolving to smiley faces, emojis, GIFs and animojis.

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No new trial for Sri Lankan refugee accused of killing wife in Canada

Text messaging celebrates 25th birthday