Year in Review: Hubris and Formula E came before the fall at city hall in 2017

The year in municipal politics was bookended by one former Montreal mayor going to prison and another one unexpectedly losing his job. In between, Mother Nature displayed what happens to cities that are ill-prepared, Montreal threw itself a party that proved costly in many ways, and the city hosted a very short-lived electric-car race series.
APPLEBAUM GOES TO JAIL 
In order to convict someone of extortion, former Montreal mayor Michael Applebaum told his chief of staff, Hugo Tremblay, in 2