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Senator Mary Jane McCallum


No boneheads in my backyard

After seeing the damage from comments made during his broadcasting career, Senator Charles Adler has ample opportunity to do fulsome research and truly become a human rights champion for all.

opinion | BY SENATOR MARY JANE MCCALLUM | August 26, 2024

The result of the oppressive synergy of sexism and racism

The families of Morgan Harris and Marcedes Myran have been involved in a long battle to search a Winnipeg landfill for their loved ones’ remains. These families warn that women, girls, and gender-diverse individuals find themselves in precarious situations, seeking shelter and safety in a province that historically offers little refuge.

Discrimination, silence and oppression do not belong in a modernized Senate

The Senate wears its modernization as a badge of honour. Yet, this progress has not been profound enough to meaningfully improve the antiquated institution that’s been in place for more than 150 years.

opinion | BY SENATOR MARY JANE MCCALLUM | September 14, 2023

Tight controls: barbed wire and Indigenous Peoples

There is a shared experience in life lived behind the walls of Canadian penitentiaries: whether you are a prisoner or an employee, if you are of First Nations, Métis or Inuit ancestry, you are met with systemic racism, discrimination, bullying, and harassment. 

opinion | BY SENATOR MARY JANE MCCALLUM, JAMES COOKE | September 4, 2023

Names matter: we need a plan to bring in new monuments to better reflect Ottawa’s diversity

My ancestors had names for all the places they travelled and lived relating to descriptions of the land and legends of the tribe. These Indigenous names across Turtle Island have been erased, without the consideration of First Nations. This was the genesis of cancel culture. 

opinion | BY SENATOR MARY JANE MCCALLUM | June 21, 2023

What gets lost in the rapid transition to electric vehicles?

Renewable energy should be designed to have minimal environmental impacts and place no extra pollution burdens on communities at either end of the transmission line.

opinion | BY SENATOR MARY JANE MCCALLUM | March 29, 2023

Can we stop with the Indigenous identity fraud?

I urge all to raise their voices to decry identity fraud whose sole purpose is to dehumanize and brutalize the very essence and power of all esquiwak (women).

opinion | BY SENATOR MARY JANE MCCALLUM | November 28, 2022

The power of voice: how to best serve the under-represented

opinion | BY SENATOR MARY JANE MCCALLUM | November 22, 2021

How to achieve balance between environmental stewardship and the resource economy

opinion | BY SENATOR MARY JANE MCCALLUM | June 16, 2021

Prejudice with power is racism

opinion | BY SENATOR MARY JANE MCCALLUM | June 26, 2020

We need a holistic approach to health care

opinion | BY SENATOR MARY JANE MCCALLUM | November 14, 2018

Supreme Court ruling shouldn’t mean the death of Indigenous consultation

opinion | BY SENATOR MARY JANE MCCALLUM | October 24, 2018

Modernizing the Senate: the benefit of partisanship taking a back seat

opinion | BY SENATOR MARY JANE MCCALLUM | June 11, 2018

What’s needed to close the Indigenous health-care gap

opinion | BY SENATOR MARY JANE MCCALLUM | April 18, 2018