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The Indigenous Education Network Presents:
Aboriginal Education and Reconciliation
with Honourable Justice Murray Sinclair
Seating is limited. Please RSVP to Steven.Vanloffeld@utoronto.ca
Who: Honourable Justice Murray Sinclair, Chair, Truth and Reconciliation
Commission of Canada
Where: OISE Nexus Community Lounge, 12th Floor, 252 Bloor Street West
When: Thursday, October 25, 2012 from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m.
“It has been through the use of an education system by the Canadian government that we have
established and created the situation that exists within aboriginal communities and within
aboriginal families in this country…it is through the educational system that non-aboriginal
Canadians have been taught what they've come to learn about aboriginal people, or not learned
about aboriginal people in this country…we believe it is through the educational system that
that information can be corrected.” – Hon. Justice Sinclair
BIO: The Honourable Justice Murray Sinclair was appointed Associate Chief Judge of the Provincial
Court of Manitoba in March of 1988 and to the Court of Queen's Bench of Manitoba in January 2001.
He was Manitoba's first Aboriginal Judge.
Born and raised in the Selkirk area north of Winnipeg, Justice Sinclair graduated from his high school
as class valedictorian and athlete of the year in 1968. After serving as Special Assistant to the Attorney
General of Manitoba, Justice Sinclair attended the Universities of Winnipeg and Manitoba and, in
1979, graduated from the Faculty of Law at the University of Manitoba.
He has been awarded a National Aboriginal Achievement award in addition to many other community
service awards, as well as Honourary Degrees from the University of Manitoba, the University of
Ottawa, and St. John’s College (University of Manitoba). He is an adjunct professor of Law and an
adjunct professor in the Faculty of Graduate Studies at the University of Manitoba.
As Canada’s largest and most influential faculty of education OISE is a leader in Aboriginal education and is among the
first Canadian faculties of education to prioritize Aboriginal values and educational research following the signing of the
Accord on Indigenous Education by the Association of Canadian Deans of Education (ACDE) in June 2010.