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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.
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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.
The Canadian Press