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We've seen the positions of the Canadian Alliance and the Assembly of First Nations this month as they scrap over accountability measures for First Nations.

Frankly, and we know this isn't going to be a popular sentiment, we think both sides are protesting a bit too much.

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We've seen the positions of the Canadian Alliance and the Assembly of First Nations this month as they scrap over accountability measures for First Nations.

Frankly, and we know this isn't going to be a popular sentiment, we think both sides are protesting a bit too much.

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We thought, we really, really thought, we could no longer be shocked by the often times farcical nature of the federal government's actions in Indian Country. But that was before we talked to some people involved in the on-going talks about long-term First Nation fishing deals in Atlantic Canada.

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We thought, we really, really thought, we could no longer be shocked by the often times farcical nature of the federal government's actions in Indian Country. But that was before we talked to some people involved in the on-going talks about long-term First Nation fishing deals in Atlantic Canada.

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Canadian society is clearly having a hard time coming to grips with the legacy of the Indian residential school system. As thousands of Native people come forward with horrific allegations of physical, sexual and cultural abuse, government and church officials are looking for ways to minimize the damage to themselves, sources say, by thwarting the attempts of school survivors to reap their rightful compensation.

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Canadian society is clearly having a hard time coming to grips with the legacy of the Indian residential school system. As thousands of Native people come forward with horrific allegations of physical, sexual and cultural abuse, government and church officials are looking for ways to minimize the damage to themselves, sources say, by thwarting the attempts of school survivors to reap their rightful compensation.

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The government has apologized, so have some of the churches, and in the major newspapers, at least, few are denying any more that Native children were abused in residential schools.

With thousands of Indian residential school charges filed against the federal government and the churches that administered its assimilationist policies now in the courts, the full magnitude of the suffering of generations of former students has yet to be revealed and probably never will be.

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The government has apologized, so have some of the churches, and in the major newspapers, at least, few are denying any more that Native children were abused in residential schools.

With thousands of Indian residential school charges filed against the federal government and the churches that administered its assimilationist policies now in the courts, the full magnitude of the suffering of generations of former students has yet to be revealed and probably never will be.

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Things are at a standstill in the Atlantic First Nations fishery talks. The chiefs say it's because the Department of Fisheries and Oceans isn't respecting East Coast treaties.

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Things are at a standstill in the Atlantic First Nations fishery talks. The chiefs say it's because the Department of Fisheries and Oceans isn't respecting East Coast treaties.