After making their mark in spheres ranging from health care to social justice, more than two dozen members of the University of Toronto community have been honoured with a new appointment to – or promotion within – the Order of Canada.
TORONTO As Sen. Murray Sinclair prepares to retire from the Senate this week, his future plans include mentoring young Indigenous lawyers and writing his memoirs. Sinclair, 70, will retire from the upper house on Jan. 31 after serving nearly five years. He will then turn his focus to educating Indigenous lawyers in Winnipeg. “It was education that got us into this and it is education that will get us out of this, and I really believe that. I believe education is the key to reconciliation,” Sinclair told CTV News. Sinclair, a member of the Ojibwe First Nation, was given the name Mizanay Gheezhik, which translates to “The One Who Speaks of Pictures in the Sky,” and was raised on a reserve north of Winnipeg by his aunt Josephine, a teacher who taught him the importance of education.