“Very proud of him,” said Eugenio Nicita whose family opened a restaurant in Montreal for his neurodiverse son to have a job he loves forever. Pamela Pagano reports.

“It’s miserably cold out there and […] you gotta have somewhere to go,” said Jon Egilsson, an unhoused Montrealer, who sought shelter at a hospital emergency room when he didn’t have anywhere else to go. Erin Seize reports.

Justin Trudeau is stepping down as Canadian Prime Minister, leaving the minority Liberals scrambling to pick a new leader. Meanwhile, opposition leaders say they’ll vote to bring down the government as soon as possible.

The federal Liberals are now searching in earnest for a new party leader. But who would even want the job right now? Facing dismal polls, and an imminent election, whoever takes over as PM faces a gargantuan task.