Murray Sinclair, a former senator, judge and the chief commissioner of Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, is being remembered by Manitoba leaders for his decades as a champion of Indigenous rights. "It will be a long time before our nation ...

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.

A teepee and a sacred fire were set up in front of the Manitoba legislature on Monday to honour Murray Sinclair, as tributes poured in from across the country for the former judge, senator and chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission into residential schools.