Kenneth Tellis
Kenneth Tellis
Letter to U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown
I have had the luxury of reading your apology to the forgotten poor British children that were illegally shipped overseas to former British colonies like Australia and Canada between 1920 and 1960. This was sometimes done without the consent of their parents and at times they were lied to by the British government of the time that they were orphans.
Mar 1, 2010 - 1:25:52 AM
Kenneth Tellis
Parallels: Kahnawake Mohawks and Jewish Settlers
Natan Sharansky writes, "Identity can involve a person's connection with history. It can mean the desire to have children be part of this history, to educate them about a valued past so that it becomes part of their future."
Feb 23, 2010 - 12:59:07 AM
Kenneth Tellis
Where is there any Linguistic Duality in Canada?
Now where else would one expect that such utter falsehoods would be passed off as the reality of Canada but by a Minister in a Conservative Government that would deliberately lie in order to get a majority in the next election.
Feb 19, 2010 - 10:46:58 PM
Kenneth Tellis
Greensboro, 1960, Kahnawake 2010
As for the sit-ins that began on February 1, 1960s by those four college students at a Woolworths lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C., I am not sure that if one was refused service in English in a restaurant or cafe in Quebec, that any action would be taken by the Federal or Quebec Governments to rectify the situation.
Feb 8, 2010 - 12:15:44 AM
Kenneth Tellis
How Hollywood Opened up its Heart to the World
I may not always agree with the stand sometimes taken by the U.S. government, but I will say this, that the American people will spare no effort when members of their allies are confronted with problems and are in a bind overseas.
Feb 3, 2010 - 12:45:41 AM
Kenneth Tellis
A Journey into Misadventure
It was November 4, 1963 and the M/V Ganges had finished unloading its cargo of sugar at the Sugar Wharf in Brooklyn, N.Y. which we had picked up in Cairns, Queensland, Australia and we were setting sail for Beaumont, TX to pick up another cargo of Phosphates for the Pfizer Plant in Grimsby, Yorkshire, England.
Feb 2, 2010 - 12:18:19 AM
Kenneth Tellis
A Truly Canadian/Canadien Experience
What exactly does Canadian experience mean? The term is usually used as a cop-out to stop someone obtaining a job. You can have all the experience in the world and not be able to get a job, because you do not have any Canadian experience. It is method used by Canadian employers to disqualify you the immigrant.
Jan 20, 2010 - 12:24:56 AM
Kenneth Tellis
'Where joual is spoken?'
Finally Joual (French patois) not French is being recognized as the REAL language of Quebec
Jan 19, 2010 - 12:22:50 AM
Kenneth Tellis
The Moment of Truth for Canada has arrived and we must seriously think of a Break-up
Remember that most English-speaking provinces in Canada have a lot more in common with their American brethren than they have with the Quebecois (Canadien) both linguistically and culturally.
Jan 15, 2010 - 12:07:21 AM
Kenneth Tellis
La Collegiale Set To Expand
Ontario is helping La Cite Collegiale expand so more students can train for jobs in high-demand skilled trades - while no such help was accorded to English-language Colleges or Trade Schools in Ontario on a similar level.
Jan 12, 2010 - 12:18:42 AM
Kenneth Tellis
I have sworn a holy war over every form of tyranny over the mind of man!"
John Walsh while opposing the stand taken J Grant Swank regarding Roman Catholicism showed how blind some Catholics are to the flaws in their own church.
Dec 28, 2009 - 12:10:40 AM
Kenneth Tellis
Some Quebecois priests say NO ENGLISH in church
A group of Metis (Quebecois) Catholic priests in Montreal are quite annoyed that the House of God is going BILINGUAL, and they are NOT at all happy with it.
Dec 23, 2009 - 11:03:33 AM
Kenneth Tellis
"Americans should be on guard"
Please people of America do not allow your country to take the same route as Canada did in 1969. Hold on to the sacred values that your forefathers fought for and stand together as one nation undivided by internal linguistic strife.
Dec 15, 2009 - 12:11:05 AM
Kenneth Tellis
Open Letter to Canadian P.M. Mr. Stephen Harper
Why does the federal government fund Village Quebecois d'Antan, Drummondville, Quebec, which only operates in Joual, the language of Quebec and there is no printed matter available in English at all at this venue. This is the exact opposite to that in Upper Canada Village near Morrisburg, Ontario which was forced to become BILINGUAL in order to receive federal government funding.
Dec 5, 2009 - 12:16:05 AM
Kenneth Tellis
Under the double standards of Canada's Metis minority
Of course no one mentioned the fact that in Quebec the English language was outlawed and could not be used in PUBLIC, whilst one could put up signs in any language, including JOUAL in any part of English-speaking Canada.
Nov 22, 2009 - 12:18:56 AM
Kenneth Tellis
The overlooked slavery of New France
During the early days of settlement in New France, between 1660 and 1760 before the British conquest of September that very same year French settlers were allowed to buy and sell slaves as a normal transaction because it was considered a necessity to do business, farm or menial household work.
Nov 21, 2009 - 8:55:14 AM
Kenneth Tellis
Letter to (Aust.) P.M. Kevin Rudd Re: Forgotten Children
Just today, Canadian Immigration Minister Jason Kenney said that there was no need for Canada to apologize for abuse and exploitation suffered by thousands of poor children shipped here (Canada) from Britain starting in the 19th century.
Nov 18, 2009 - 1:20:42 AM
Kenneth Tellis
Jacques Parizeau the Pied Piper of l'Assomption
Today, history has repeated itself. A man, who thought of himself as a great leader and trail-blazer, was not all that he claimed to be, but a wind-bag.
Nov 17, 2009 - 12:36:28 AM
Kenneth Tellis
Canada's Beginnings: A Letter to Jason Kenney
Any country must begin its history from its birth pangs, and whether people like it or not, Canada's history was born out of the defeat of France at Montreal, New France on September 8, 1760
Nov 14, 2009 - 8:25:51 AM
Kenneth Tellis
An Open Letter to Patrick Bourgeois
An Open Letter to Patrick Bourgeois, Metis head of the Reseau de Resistance de Kebekistan/ Mouvement souverainiste du Kebekistan. I have been following you and your use of violent methods for quite a while and you are now well on the road to self-destruction. May you reach that point very quickly?
Oct 26, 2009 - 8:08:30 AM
Kenneth Tellis
School transfers in Kebecistan stir up language tension
The question being asked by Elizabeth Thompson of the National Bureau is: "does Quebec law that blocks some children who attend private schools in Quebec from transferring to English public schools violate the Canadian CONSTITUTION?
Oct 22, 2009 - 11:06:47 AM
Kenneth Tellis
Letter to President Obama Re: Thomas Paine
I am going to take the opportunity to request you Mr. President, that since this year is the 200th Anniversary of the death of Thomas Paine that a special commemorative SILVER DOLLAR be issued to honour the memory this great American patriot
May 21, 2009 - 4:47:35 PM
Kenneth Tellis
"Canada Isn't a Hotel"
It seems that COMMON SENSE has not been a Canadian attitude since the Trudeau era, and that is the time warp that we are stuck in today
Apr 4, 2009 - 9:38:30 PM
Kenneth Tellis
The Delusional Metisse Louis Beaudoin
The delusional Metisse Louis Beaudoin, Parti Quebecois opposition critic for international affairs raves on about something that never was, and continues on with her pipe dream, albeit in colour.
Feb 22, 2009 - 4:19:14 AM
Kenneth Tellis
Trudeau's Bilingualism?
Is this the sort of BILINGUALISM that Trudeau was promoting?
Feb 19, 2009 - 11:15:36 AM
Kenneth Tellis
Quebecois Separatists Say That French President Nicolas Sarkozy Doesn't Understand Quebec
If the top Quebecois separatists are stupefied by French President Nicolas Sarkozy's forays into the issue of Canadian Unity, they are very correct in their judgment, because they are completely wrong in their surmises of the issue.
Feb 9, 2009 - 10:58:21 AM
Kenneth Tellis
Why Education for the Quebecois Was So Far Behind
In the 19th century when the life of the average person in Quebec was not very good, there came out of the English-speaking men like James McGill a canny Scots businessman and trader who because he was a bachelor bequeathed all his money for the building of an institution of knowledge and learning in Montreal, Lower Canada (which became Quebec in July 1867).
Feb 2, 2009 - 10:34:47 AM
Kenneth Tellis
A Case of Arrogance Personified by a Quebecois Living in Alberta, Canada
When someone that I do not know from Quebec, who works in the office of a Quebec-based firm in Edmonton, Alberta sends me an e-mail denouncing my demands for linguistic equality and respect for Human Rights in Quebec, it makes me wonder.
Jan 29, 2009 - 10:40:28 AM
Kenneth Tellis
An Exercise in Futility Was the Game that Trudeau Was Playing
In 1997 Pierre-Elliott Trudeau advised the English-speaking community of Quebec to take the Quebec government to court on the issue of Bill 101, which outlawed the use of English in Quebec. But he also added that the federal government would not fund the English-speaking community of Quebec and that they would have to fight the Quebec government with their own hard-earned money.
Jan 28, 2009 - 10:06:30 AM
Kenneth Tellis
Great Scot - The Conquest of Quebec
This story of all places begins in Glasgow, Scotland. It was in Glasgow, Scotland, that Janet Stobo bore William Stobo (Stobhu) a merchant of Glasgow, a lawful son, named Robert Stobo on October 7, 1727. As a young man Robert Stobo studied at Glasgow University. When he finished his studies left Scotland to start a new life in the Virginia Colony where he became a merchant.
Jan 24, 2009 - 9:19:37 PM
Kenneth Tellis
September 13, 1759, a Moment to Remember in Time
On September 13, 1759, 250 years ago British and American colonial forces brought down the French Colonial Empire. There were three essential purposes, the first being to explore and claim all territories for the French king, the second purpose was to control the fur trade and the amassing of wealth, and the third purpose was to convert 'les sauvages' (the Indian savages) to the Catholic faith.
Jan 14, 2009 - 11:01:51 AM
Kenneth Tellis
The Story of the Chant National and Why it Was Composed
Calixa Lavalee no doubt was born on December 29, 1842 in Vercheres, Lower Canada (now Quebec), and was a gifted musician. History will recall that Calixa Lavalee of Boston died as an American, not a Canadien.
Jan 6, 2009 - 3:20:11 AM
Kenneth Tellis
Keeping French Afloat in a 'Sea of English'
If parents outside Quebec struggle to pass on their Joual-language to their children, then think of how parents in Quebec also struggle to pass on the English-language to their children and of the Racist laws in Quebec that prevent it.
Dec 31, 2008 - 3:49:47 AM
Kenneth Tellis
A Challenge to Quebec's Racist Bill 101
Trudeau was a dream weaver, trying to make people believe that things could be changed, when he was really part of the problem and not the solution.
Dec 29, 2008 - 4:07:35 AM
Kenneth Tellis
Did Anyone Watch the Christmas Programming on the CBC?
I find it hilarious that even when it comes to other aspects of Canadian Life, the English-speaking majority are conveniently left out, as if to say they do not exist at all.
Dec 27, 2008 - 11:45:22 AM
Kenneth Tellis
"A Book that Made a Difference to a Little Boy"
Finally in a sense it was a true metamorphosis and I had changed completely into something very different from what I was before it all began. Like that famous immigrant to the U.S., Israel Baline (Irving Berlin) wrote in his song a tribute to his adopted country in 1918, the words that bear remembering and which was first sung on Armistice Day 1938 by Kate Smith, let me also say: GOD BLESS AMERICA!
Dec 25, 2008 - 1:30:04 AM
Kenneth Tellis
A Man Who Thinks He Can Now Replace God
Of course this has been invoked by the new GOD of Quebec, one Jean Charest, who must really be demented enough to violate not just the U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights, but also the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and the Canadian Constitution which upholds the right to religious beliefs of the person.
Dec 18, 2008 - 6:18:24 PM
Kenneth Tellis
Maybe Tit for Tat is the REAL Answer to Quebec's Bill 101
Benoit Belleau, Quebec government lawyer's claim that those who are not eligible for English schooling under Quebec's Joual (French patois) Language Charter, Bill 101 should not be able to buy themselves a charter right. Because in effect Benoit Belleau has now publicly declared that Quebec does not recognize qualifications gained by attending unsubsidized English Public Schools in Quebec, who have qualified staff with degrees from English language universities.
Dec 17, 2008 - 11:29:44 AM
Kenneth Tellis
Are We Scraping the Bottom of the Barrel for Opinions?
Why do we really need the opinion of Justin Trudeau, a rookie MP and son of the P.E. Trudeau? Is it that important that we listen to meanderings of the son of the late Pierre-Elliott Trudeau who took Canada on the path to economic self-destruction by his wasteful ways and his antics? When we could be a lot better off reading Hans Christian Anderson's fables?
Dec 16, 2008 - 10:53:14 AM
Kenneth Tellis
Les Soi-disant Francaise de Quebec
I just wonder when these pseudo French people of the Metis Nation of Quebec will come to terms with reality.
Dec 1, 2008 - 5:16:25 PM
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