{"id":97033,"date":"2024-11-04T16:50:09","date_gmt":"2024-11-04T21:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=97033"},"modified":"2024-11-13T16:12:24","modified_gmt":"2024-11-13T21:12:24","slug":"brock-mourns-passing-of-justice-murray-sinclair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2024\/11\/brock-mourns-passing-of-justice-murray-sinclair\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock mourns passing of Justice Murray Sinclair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The Brock community is mourning the loss of Justice Murray Sinclair, the groundbreaking Anishinaabe Senator and judge who led Canada\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rcaanc-cirnac.gc.ca\/eng\/1450124405592\/1529106060525\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Truth and Reconciliation Commission<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cOn behalf of everyone at Brock, I want to extend my most heartfelt condolences to the Honourable Murray Sinclair\u2019s family,\u201d says Lesley Rigg, President and Vice-Chancellor. \u201cHis commitment to truth and justice was unparalleled and should serve as an inspiration to us all. Today, Brock honours his legacy by re-affirming its commitment to de-colonization and fostering meaningful reconciliation on campus and in the wider community.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Known by the spirit name Mazina Giizhik (the One Who Speaks of Pictures in the Sky), Sinclair spent six years chairing the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which explored the devastating impact of Canada\u2019s residential school system.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The work resulted in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www2.gov.bc.ca\/assets\/gov\/british-columbians-our-governments\/indigenous-people\/aboriginal-peoples-documents\/calls_to_action_english2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">94 calls to action<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, many of which involve the education system.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:0,&quot;335559737&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:279}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cMazina Giizhik\u2019s work ensured Canadians understood that the harms inflicted on Indigenous communities across the country did not come to an end when the last residential school closed in 1996,\u201d says Robyn Bourgeois, Vice-Provost, Indigenous Engagement. \u201cHe will be remembered for his tireless advocacy on behalf of all Indigenous Peoples, and he will be deeply missed.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:0,&quot;335559737&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:279}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Brock will lower its flags to half-mast in honour of Sinclair\u2019s life and legacy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>EDITOR&#8217;S NOTE: Photo credit: Archkris, <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0<\/a>, via Wikimedia Commons.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Brock community is mourning the loss of Justice Murray Sinclair, the groundbreaking Anishinaabe Senator and judge who led Canada\u2019s Truth and Reconciliation Commission.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":97034,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97033"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97033"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97290,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97033\/revisions\/97290"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}