CMU honours Senator Mary Jane McCallum with 2021 PAX Award

CMU President Dr. Cheryl Pauls presented the 2021 CMU PAX Award to Senator Dr. Mary Jane McCallum on Saturday, August 21 at CMU’s convocation ceremony, where McCallum also delivered the graduation address.

This is the sixth year that CMU has presented the PAX Award, a distinction created to honour people who lead exemplary lives of service, leadership, and reconciliation in society.

“She is a dentist, a former residential school student, a Canadian senator, a speaker of English and Cree, a thoughtful, deep listener, and a person of profound insight, grace, and courage,” Pauls said of McCallum. “Her willingness to accept the PAX Award is an honour to CMU.”

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