Dmitri Priven and Fellow Citizens

fellow citizens: Our voices melded into a mishmash of from-somewhere-else accents, according to NOW Magazine. That was 10 years ago. That was it! I’d officially become a new Canadian in a room full of new fellow citizens. Like many new Canadians in that room, I still speak with my accent. According to Dmitri Priven, coordinator of Algonquin College program for teachers of English as a second/foreign language, there an unofficial but pervasive hierarchy of accents. It a powerful reminder that marks me as other than and often less than mainstream Canucks. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.