Canada judge who headed residential school abuse investigation dies


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  • Tuesday, 05 Nov 2024

FILE PHOTO: Justice Murray Sinclair speaks during the release of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's final report in Ottawa, Canada, December 15, 2015. REUTERS/Chris Wattie/File Photo

TORONTO (Reuters) - The judge and senator who chaired the Truth and Reconciliation Commission into Canadian residential schools' abuse of Indigenous children has died. He was 73.

Murray Sinclair, born near Selkirk, Manitoba, was remembered Monday as a powerful voice for survivors of Canada's residential school system and other colonial legacies.

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