Some Aboriginal communities in northern Saskatchewan are interested in the possibility of storing nuclear waste — something the province hasn't made its mind up about yet. Last week, representatives from the Métis village of Pinehouse took a trip to Toronto to visit the Nuclear Waste Management Organization. Canada's used nuclear fuel is stored at reactor sites, but the organization is looking for a community to host a national storage facility.

This story is interesting because it is another apology from the feds to our people, but what does it mean? Like the big one to residential school survivors a few years ago, it is what it is. Some will take it as an admission to a wrong committed many years ago, and heal from that. Others will say it is too little too late, and they will be right as well. The important thing is to learn from these mistakes and not commit the same ones again. The actual apology and potential financial compensation are just words if the essence of them fall by the wayside.

Last week, Shawn Atleo, the national chief of the Assembly of First Nations, called for the federal government to repeal the Indian Act within the next two to five years.