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 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 "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 Verily a Cabal of Quebeckers Against a Lone Ontarian
The plot by the Liberal Party under Stephane Dion, the Bloc Quebecois under Gilles Duceppe and the New Democratic Party under Jack Layton TO DFEAT THE Conservative government of Stephen Harper has proven to Canadians that their first loyalty is NOT to CANADA, but to their personal advancement and that alone. Because today these three parties have made it abundantly clear that it was the removal of political subsidy by the Conservative government that made them very angry enough to unite and plot to bring down the Conservative government, everything else took a second place to the loss of their subsidy.
Dec 1, 2008 - 5:05:58 PM
Kenneth Tellis Such Comparison's are Odious
Freedoms that we daily take for granted are the lessons learned from the MAGNA CARTA and ENGLISH COMMON LAW, which people like Jean Chretien do not understand or believe in, or practice thereof, because that was not the rule in New France before the British conquest of 1760. New France and present day Quebec have this one thing in common, that they both are ruled by edicts, not by consent of the governed.
Nov 28, 2008 - 11:51:03 PM
Kenneth Tellis British Conquest of New France
The letter by Mahmood Elahi of Ottawa was very badly flawed. There is no mention here that Sir Guy Carleton (later Lord Dorchester) ever thought that the New Colony of Quebec would always remain French.
Nov 27, 2008 - 3:01:17 AM
Kenneth Tellis To Prime Minister of Canada
No more goodies for Quebec with money from English-speaking Canada. To put it very succinctly, let them go suck a lemon if they want, but no way, no how should they be entitled to my tax dollars from now on.
Nov 26, 2008 - 8:49:41 PM
Kenneth Tellis How Captain Canada Became the Joey Captain Kangaroo
Just imagine that a federal Progressive Conservative leader Captain Canada left Ottawa and switched reversible jacket and became Captain Kangaroo the Liberal premier of Quebec.
Nov 25, 2008 - 2:07:55 PM
Kenneth Tellis Our National Anthem - At the 2010 Vancouver Olympics
It's time we all get behind Bruce Allen, and scrap this Political Correctness crap. His comments were anything but racist, but there are far too many overly sensitive 'New Canadians' that are trying to change everything we hold dear.
Nov 19, 2008 - 1:36:21 AM
Kenneth Tellis Separation of Church and State are Clearly Defined by Law
Understand well that the parish priest in South Carolina has violated the rules set down by the SEPARATION of CHURCH and STATE. Any attempt to coerce people by threats is simply a criminal act.
Nov 14, 2008 - 3:22:42 AM
Kenneth Tellis Herouxville Wins ( Democracy Loses)
Michel Tremblay said, we are not English, not French but quebecois (Metis), we do not speak English or French, we speak JOUAL (cheval mispronounced); it is the REAL language of Quebec. Of course Quebec's snobbish elite society was quick to denounce Michel Tremblay for telling the TRUTH.
Nov 2, 2008 - 9:42:13 PM
Kenneth Tellis "Je Me Souviens" (I Remember)
I believe that the heading of this article is apt under the circumstances. Thus, all that is written here are from my own experiences in Quebec.
Oct 23, 2008 - 10:24:43 AM
Kenneth Tellis Whatever Happened To The U.S. of Old That We Once Knew?
The other day while talking to some friends, I got to reminiscing about places in the U.S. that I had the opportunity to visit and of the very happy memories I had of the people that I met along my way.
Oct 16, 2008 - 2:22:51 PM
Kenneth Tellis Was Louise Arbour Always in a CONFLICT of INTEREST Position?
Was Louise Arbour, using her position as High Commissioner of Human Rights in Geneva, Switzerland, to hold in abeyance complaints made to her in respect of the province of Quebec's Human Rights violations?
Jul 31, 2008 - 11:42:40 AM
Kenneth Tellis History Can Always be Distorted or Manipulated to Suit the Ends of Those Who Want to Put Forward Their Erroneous Viewpoints
This is the story of the conversation with a Haitian Taxi-driver and his call for reparations by the White or European colonial powers needs a rebuttal, which will at the very least, brings to the fore all of the issues concerned. That story of President Hugo Rafael Chavez of Venezuela being in real danger and the overthrow of President Bertrand Aristide of Haiti, got me thinking enough to do my research and point out the many facets of the issue.
Jul 14, 2008 - 2:27:11 PM
Kenneth Tellis Quebec Group Requests French Citizenship Based on Ancestry?
Her name is MarieMance Vallee and she's quebecoise, with roots dating back to the 1650's, and she hopes to have a French passport and celebrate Bastille Day July 14, 2009) as a French citizen. Vallee is a member of Collectif Nationalite française, who hope in the not too distant future that many "de souche" quebecois will celebrate the Bastille Day holiday as citizens of France?
Jul 12, 2008 - 10:50:13 PM
Kenneth Tellis World Conference Against Racism
Why do some countries like India, Canada and Israel think that South Apartheid could be discussed, yet, if their own positions on issues are brought to the fore they immediately say that it is anti-Semitism and that they cannot attend the conference?
Jun 23, 2008 - 10:49:24 AM
Kenneth Tellis History Revealed: The Quebec Act of 1774 Was a Betrayal of the English-Speaking Peoples of Colonial North America
History has not been very clear on the basis of those who continue to call themselves Canadien, Quebecois of canadienne-francaise, but there are good reasons for this ploy. First of all consider the fact that the Anglo-French Treaty of Paris of February 10, 1763, not only ceded New France to Great Britain, but also its Habitant inhabitants. Of course those that chose to leave were permitted to do so, but by and large France only took those who were of French blood and not those of mixed origins.
Jun 9, 2008 - 10:56:24 AM
Kenneth Tellis A Real Friendship that Spans the World
This story begins of in all places in what was then known as the Trucial Coast of Arabia bordering on the one side by Sultanate of Oman and Muscat in the Persian Gulf on the other side by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Jun 7, 2008 - 10:26:01 PM
