Foreign hello and welcome to the Curator on Monaco Radio with me, Fernando Gustavashievo.
Over the next 60 minutes, I'll be bringing you some of the very best interviews and reports from the past week of coverage on Monaco Radio with highlights from our studios here in Midori House and from around the world.
This week we discuss Christmas songs.
We've never had an explicitly sexy, innuendo filled Christmas song, so props to Saweetie for bringing it to us.
First one plus we find out more about the culinary scene of Trondhei in Norway.
One of the items on their dessert menu fried doughnut with salted caramel sauce, popcorn, berries and vanilla ice.
All that and much more in the next hour here on the Curator with me, Fernando Gustava.
And we start the show in Canada following the scathing resignation letter of his finance minister, Chrystia Freeland.
And Andrew Mueller explains why Canada's prime minister may be about to lose his job and what Trump has in store if he doesn't.
As has been widely noted across the democratic world, these are not happy times for incumbents.
In 2024, more voters have voted than in any other year in history, and they have largely voted out those who govern them.
Canada's Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau has not faced re election this year, but he may nevertheless be relying on the Christmas break to spare him from joining 2024's ranks of suddenly unemployed leaders.
Earlier this week, Trudeau's finance minister, Chrystia Freeland, Canada's equivalent of the United Kingdom's Chancellor of the Exchequer or the United States Treasury Secretary, resigned.
To understand why this matters, it is necessary to keep in mind that political resignations are enacted for a wide variety of reasons.
Politicians resign in disgrace, pique, frustration, dudgeon, delusion, and occasionally even on principle.
But Freeland's resignation was none of these.
Freeland's resignation was the kind clearly intended to fit the skids under the head of government, then give him a push.
First of all, there was the matter of timing.
Freeland released the letter announcing her departure early on the day that she was supposed to deliver a significant economic statement.
This signalled a twin determination to avoid being the bearer of bad news herself and to generally vex and bedevil Trudeau.