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The Atikamekw of Joliette continue to face discrimination while house-hunting.

Many Natives leave their reserves and head to bigger cities in search better opportunities reports the CBC.   

Many Atikamekw travel to the city of Joliette, located an hour northeast of Montreal.

Rosalia Petiquey is a mother of three and a victim of housing discrimination.

After failing to find an apartment for her family in Joliette, Petiqueywas forced to sleep outside for days.

Petiquey eventually took an apartment with no running water in order to put a roof over her family’s head.

Canada’s finance minister, Jim Flahrety is scheduled to present the 2013-2014 federal budget on Thursday.

In anticipation, Quebec’s finance minister, Nicolas Marceau says the federal budget will not affect his.

Marceau told the Gazette he is concerned over circulating rumours that Flahrety will not renew the federal skills training program in 2014.

This could result in cuts of $116 million in funding to Emploi-Quebec.

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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.