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Trailblazing judge, senator and National Truth and Reconciliation Commissioner Murray Sinclair died Nov. 4. He was 73.
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Trailblazing judge, senator and National Truth and Reconciliation Commissioner Murray Sinclair died Nov. 4. He was 73.
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Judge Murray Sinclair on Sept. 2, 1989.
(Dave Johnson / Free Press files) Commissioner Murray Sinclair (right) with commissioner Alvin Hamilton for the Aboriginal Justice Inquiry, pictured in November 1989. (Wayne Glowacki / Free Press files) Judge Murray Sinclair presided over a pediatric cardiac surgery inquest into the 1994 deaths of 12 babies at Health Sciences Centre in Winnipeg. In 2000, he released his inquest report and his findings, stating some of the deaths were preventable. (Phil Hossack / Free Press files) Judge Murray Sinclair speaks to students at Sisler High School. (Phil Hossack / Free Press files) Murray Sinclair was sworn in as a judge on Manitoba’s Court of Queen’s Bench in 2001.(Wayne Glowacki / Free Press files) Justice Murray Sinclair received an eagle feather at a restorative justice banquet in 2001. (Boris Minkevich / Free Press files) Justice Murray Sinclair was awarded an honorary degree from the University of Winnipeg in 2011. Then-university president Lloyd Axworthy presented the honour. (Wayne Glowacki / Free Press files) Justice Murray Sinclair was appointed chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in 2009. He’s pictured here at The Forks in 2010 on the national day of healing for residential school survivors. (Mike Deal / Free Press files) Chief Justice Murray Sinclair speaks at the We Day event for young people while a photo of his granddaughter is projected onto the screen in October 2012. (Adrian Wyld / The Canadian Press files) Murray Sinclair speaks during Truth and Reconciliation Commission events in 2015.(Boris Minkevich / Free Press files) Murray Sinclair attends the grand opening of the National research centre for truth and reconciliation at the University of Manitoba in November 2015.(Adrian Wyld / The Canadian Press files) Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (right) greets Justice Murray Sinclair at the release of the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada on the history of Canada’s residential school system, in Ottawa on Dec. 15, 2015.(Mikaela Mackenzie / Free Press files) During the COVID-19 pandemic, former Senator Murray Sinclair used his voice to encourage other Indigenous people to get vaccinated. (Sean Kilpatrick / The Canadian Press files)
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau shares an embraces with Murray Sinclair as they take part in ceremonies for the National Day of Truth and Reconciliation in Ottawa on, Sept. 30, 2022.(Ruth Bonneville / Free Press files) Murray Sinclair became the Anishinaabe person inducted in the Winnipeg Regional Real Estate Board’s Citizens Hall of Fame. A bronze bust in his likeness was unveiled in September 2022. (Ruth Bonneville / Free Press files) Murray Sinclair attends the future site of the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation in November 2022. (Ruth Bonneville / Free Press files) Murray Sinclair attends the future site of the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation in November 2022.(Mike Deal / Free Press files) Murray Sinclair speaks during a Public Safety Summit at the RBC Convention Centre in April 2024. A few weeks later, he was inducted into the Order of Manitoba.
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