Newly re-elected Gatineau mayor passes 'solid' budget

To say that Chrystia Freeland’s resignation on Wednesday—effective Friday, January 9—wasn’t as well timed and executed as her December 2024 departure as Justin Trudeau’s finance minister and deputy prime minister would be an understatement. Previous to that, Freeland posted to her social media channels, this past Monday, that she had accepted a voluntary role as an economic advisor to Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The position meant that she would step aside as Prime Minister Mark Carney’s special representative for the reconstruction of Ukraine. “In the coming weeks, I will...