{"id":915516,"date":"2026-09-30T16:34:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T16:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/915516\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T16:34:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T16:34:15","slug":"hanes-i-voted-in-english-this-quebec-election-to-safeguard-my-linguistic-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/915516\/","title":{"rendered":"Hanes: I voted in English this Quebec election to safeguard my linguistic rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Sunday afternoon, I headed down to the advance poll in my riding to exercise my rights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not only did I get a jump on voting in the Oct. 5 election, discharging a democratic right that only comes around roughly every four years, I also wanted to test my rights as an English-speaking Quebecer at a sensitive time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Normally, I wouldn\u2019t give much thought to which language I spoke when casting my ballot, I would just go with the flow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Sunday afternoon, I headed down to the advance poll in my riding to exercise my rights. Not&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":915517,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":["post-915516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915516","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=915516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/915517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}