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A new report shows wait times for priority medical treatments have not decreased despite efforts from provincial governments.

CBC News reports while 21,000 more procedures occurred in 2012 compared to 2011, wait times remained unchanged.

The report conducted by the Canadian Institute for Health Information initially found a dramatic decrease in wait times.

Hip and knee replacements in 2012 were 15 per cent higher than in 2010, putting a strain on health systems.

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The chaos and uncertainty continues at Montreal city hall.

According to CBC News, General Manger Guy Hebert was forced to resign from his post on Monday afternoon. He was forced to give up his post after denying he was responsible for former SPVM cheif Marc Parent's resignation earlier in the day at a press conference.

Interim mayor Michael Applebaum told the media that Hebert overstepped his bounds by asking Parent to resign. It was then revealed by an aide of the Quebec Public Security minister that Hebert did in fact try to have Parent removed from power.

It seems that Prime Minister Stephen Harper is seeing red these days.

According to CBC News, the prime minister isn' happy about Canada’s longstanding shortage of skilled workers.

Harper has been budding heads within his own government to come up with new methods to help Canadians acquire proper work-related skills in order to fill thousands of job vacancies.

The federal government gives provinces more than 2 billion a year from the employment insurance fund. 

An aquatic expert from the University of Windsor says despite new policies and thorough clean up, the Great Lakes are still in a grave state which could have a serious impact on the 40-million who live nearby.

As reported by CBC News, The Great Lakes are under several stresses induced by pharmaceutical waste and climate change that are causing algal blooms known as “blue-green” to develop in them.

Sunday’s edition of the New York Times featured an ad paid for by the government of Alberta promoting the controversial Keystone XL pipeline project.  

According to CBC News, the 30,000 dollar ad is the latest move by Alberta to push its case for the 1,800 kilometre pipeline that would bring oil form Alberta’s oil sands through the U.S. to refineries on the Gulf Coast in Texas for shipment to users all over the world.