CP NewsAlert: Murray Sinclair, Truth and Reconciliation Commission chair, dies at 73

By The Canadian Press on November 4, 2024.

WINNIPEG – Murray Sinclair, who chaired the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on residential schools, has died at the age of 73.

Niigaan Sinclair says his father died this morning in a Winnipeg hospital.

Murray Sinclair was the first Indigenous judge in Manitoba and the second in Canada.

He was also a senator from 2016 to 2021.

The member of Peguis First Nation was a father of five, as well as a grandfather.

He limited public engagements in recent years due to his declining health.

More coming.

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