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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12 2024 | VOL. 44 | ISSUE 10
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Murray Sinclair’s legacy lives on “He showed us there is no reconciliation without truth,” Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew said
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urray Sinclair (Mazina Giizhik-iban) was born in 1951 on the former St. Peter’s Reserve. He grew up in the Selkirk area north of Winnipeg, Manitoba and later attended the University of Manitoba’s Faculty of Law, graduating in 1979. In the
years to follow, Sinclair dedicated his work to defending the rights of Indigenous persons and exposing the systemic oppression the Canadian justice system imposed on Indigenous peoples. Sinclair passed away on Nov. 4 at age 73. Sinclair became the Associate Chief Judge of the Provincial Court of Manitoba in 1988, making him the first Indigenous judge in Manitoba and the second in
Quebec’s healthcare system needs a prescription for change
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uebec Health Minister Christian Dubé recently announced reform plans for Quebec’s healthcare system, which include restricting new doctors to the public sector and potentially invoking the notwith-
standing clause to enforce compliance. The provincial doctor shortage is a pressing issue: Quebec has seen a 70 per cent increase in physicians moving to the private sector since 2020. Contributing factors like difficult working conditions, excessive paperwork, and restrictive policies have driven doctors
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Inaugural Palestinian Film Festival celebrates art, heritage, and hope
If I Must Die reclaims culture, identity, and resistance member who wished to remain In a conversation with The
out of the public sector, yet the minister’s plans do not Monique Kasonga adequately address or offer Opinion Editor & solutions to these underlyYusur Al-Sharqi ing issues. As a result, public Managing Editor healthcare accessibility has worsened, with increasing ’m nothing without Palestine. wait times for essential treatPalestine is my everything, all ments and over two million my values are based on being Quebecers lacking access to a Palestinian.” family doctor. These words, spoken by a PG. 5
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Canada. Sinclair’s recommendations included an emphasis on Indigenous offenders’ backgrounds and circumstances when applying sentencing, which allowed the court to consider historical inequalities and the legacies of colonialism when sentencing. This was later enshrined in the 1996 Gladue Principles. In 2001, Sinclair became the first Indigenous judge appointed to the Court of King’s Bench, the highest trial court in Manitoba. PG. 4
anonymous of the Palestinian Cultural Club (PCC) at McGill, resonated deeply across the university’s campus on Friday, Nov. 8. That evening, the PCC hosted its much-anticipated Palestinian Film Festival, If I Must Die, transforming the Leacock Building into a breathtaking celebration of Palestinian culture.
Tribune, another PCC organizer who wished to remain anonymous expressed the club’s motivation for organizing the festival. “A lot of people, especially in Montreal, only knew Palestine after October 7. We want to show people that it did not start on October 7, and it did not start in 1948,” they PG. 7 explained.