Robyn Flynn caps off the week with Neil Drabkin, is a lawyer and political commentator who was a chief of staff in the Harper government, and Andrew Caddell, a town councillor in Kamouraska, columnist for the Hill Times in Ottawa and President of the Task Force on Linguistic policy.

• Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is set to announce a significant cabinet shuffle today, aiming to stabilize his Liberal government following Chrystia Freeland's surprise resignation as finance minister
• Santé Québec has spent $1.7 million over six months on external consultants to support its transition as the sole employer of the health network
• Should masking be mandatory in public during cold and flu season?
• A French couple in Granby is closing their bakery, Tartes et Clafoutis, after discovering they had unknowingly worked illegally due to expired work permits
• 20 Montreal bars have been given permission to stay open until 6 AM on New Year’s Eve