Senators who worked with Murray Sinclair remember the Anishinaabe judge as a courageous leader and towering intellect who left his mark on Canada's upper house, raising the bar for all of them.

Murray Sinclair, a former First Nation judge, senator and chair of the commission that delved into Canada’s troubled history of residential schools for First Nations students, has died.

Murray Sinclair, the Anishinaabe former senator and judge who led Canada's landmark Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) into the country's residential schools has died at 73, his family said in a statement.

Sinclair was a former judge, senator and chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission into residential schools. He died Monday in a Winnipeg hospital at the age of 73. A teepe