Murray Sinclair memorial: Indigenous leader’s life, legacy honoured at national ceremony | FULL

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A public memorial service was held in Winnipeg, Man., on Sunday to honour the life of the late Murray Sinclair — also known as Mazina Giizhik — a former judge, senator and chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission into residential schools. Sinclair died in a Winnipeg hospital on Monday morning at the age of 73.

“He was an advocate. A fighter. And some of you may have just learned — a poet, an artist. And perhaps most of all, he was an educator,” said Niigaanwewidam Sinclair, the son of Murray Sinclair. “He was a ‘first’ of almost every single room he walked into.”

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew also attended the service, honouring Sinclair’s legacy at the home arena of the NHL’s Winnipeg Jets. Trudeau said “Murray changed this country for the better,” concluding his remarks by saying the Indigenous leader has shared “the blueprint” to pursue reconciliation

Sinclair was the first Indigenous judge in Manitoba and the second in Canada, and he served as co-chair of the Aboriginal Justice Inquiry of Manitoba to examine whether the justice system was failing Indigenous people. Sunday’s memorial was the first national commemorative ceremony for an Indigenous person.

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