{"id":908997,"date":"2026-09-25T10:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T10:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/908997\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T10:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T10:22:10","slug":"the-invisible-anglos-montreal-gazette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/908997\/","title":{"rendered":"The Invisible Anglos &#8211; Montreal Gazette"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rick Johal is a self-described happy Quebec anglo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Born and raised in Montreal\u2019s West Island, he attended Concordia University and now lives in Lennoxville in the Eastern Townships, where his wife\u2019s family is from. He\u2019s fluently bilingual and has a good job in the video game industry. He would have liked for his children to go to a French school, but distance and logistics wouldn\u2019t allow it, so they attend the nearby English elementary. He and his wife pay a private tutor for extra French lessons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019m very, very happy living here,\u201d said Johal, 37. \u201cI\u2019ve lived here my whole life. I\u2019ve never envisioned leaving Quebec. I tend to take the position that I think we have it pretty good.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rick Johal is a self-described happy Quebec anglo. Born and raised in Montreal\u2019s West Island, he attended Concordia&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":908998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338,120789,16622],"class_list":["post-908997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal","tag-quebec-elections","tag-quebec-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=908997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/908998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=908997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=908997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=908997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}