Opinion: Beyond the headlines, signs of hope for Quebec’s anglo community

The new year can be expected to be just as tumultuous as the last, but we can find some welcome counterweights to the despair many have felt. If past is prologue, can the English-speaking community of Quebec be optimistic as it stares into a 2026 expected to be just as tumultuous as 2025?

In one short year, federal and provincial political earthquakes have produced a new Prime Minister in Mark Carney, a large Quebec presence in federal corridors of power in that federal election (as well a reduction in both vote and seats for the separatist Bloc Québécois), provincial ministerial resignations, upheaval in Quebec’s opposition parties and significant municipal changes. Internationally, several terrible events shocked, saddened and alarmed many of us.