{"id":953530,"date":"2026-10-31T20:16:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T20:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/953530\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T20:16:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T20:16:18","slug":"after-a-year-in-office-martinez-ferrada-balances-ambition-for-montreal-with-tough-budgetary-decisions-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/953530\/","title":{"rendered":"After a year in office, Martinez Ferrada balances ambition for Montreal with &#8216;tough&#8217; budgetary decisions ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mayor Soraya Martinez Ferrada has the same ambitions she had for Montreal while campaigning for the role last fall, but a year leading the city has also left her clear-eyed about the challenges it faces. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The city\u2019s debt, crumbling infrastructure and need to improve basic services \u2014 from pothole repairs to snow clearing \u2014 are all front of mind as she marks one year in office and prepares her administration\u2019s second budget.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019re not only going to hit a wall, we already hit it. It\u2019s done \u2014 so we have to make tough decisions now,\u201d Martinez Ferrada said in an interview Friday. \u201cI understand the context is difficult, but if we do nothing, our city will crumble.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayor Soraya Martinez Ferrada has the same ambitions she had for Montreal while campaigning for the role last&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":953531,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-953530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=953530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/953531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=953530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=953530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=953530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}