Tuesday, December 12 — Senator Wanda Thomas Bernard meets with the Association of Black Social Workers and social work students taking part in a conversation about the Black experience and systemic racism.

Tuesday, December 12 — Senators Lillian Eva Dyck and Kim Pate host the screening of documentary “Birth of a Family,” which tells the story of four siblings, separated as children during the Sixites Scoop, reuniting decades later. From right to left are National Film Board commissioner Claude Joli-Coeur, Senator Kim Pate, the film’s executive producer David Christensen, the film’s producer Bonnie Thompson, the film’s director Tasha Hubbard and Senator Lillian Eva Dyck.

Friday, December 15 — Senators Diane Bellemare, Victor Oh, Kim Pate, Jim Munson, Yonah Martin, Patricia Bovey and  Grant Mitchell help load boxes of toys for underprivileged kids in the National Capital Region onto a military truck as part of the Toys for Tots holiday season campaign. The toy drive took place under the leadership of Speaker of the Senate George J. Furey. 

Monday, December 18 — Senator Kim Pate visits a group of grade 12 law students at Hillcrest High School in Ottawa for a SENgage guest talk. She shared her perspective on how to reform the Canadian corrections system, particularly speaking to the case of teenager Ashley Smith, which the students have been studying.

Monday, December 18 — Senator Leo Housakos joins 25 youngsters from the Conseil des écoles catholiques du Centre-Est who were attired in brand new hockey gear, donated by the National Hockey League Players’ Association for a game on the Canada 150 Rink on Parliament Hill. Senator Housakos performed the ceremonial puck drop.

Other events that senators participated in:

• Wednesday, December 13 — Senator Doug Black attended the Wall Street Journal’s Cybersecurity Executive Forum as part of his Senate Committee on Banking, Trade and Commerce’s ongoing study on cybersecurity and cyberfraud.
• Friday, December 15 — Senator Lillian Eva Dyck hosted a traditional Iroquois ceremony for two sacred grandfather masks, originally donated to the Senate by Senator Serge Joyal. The ceremony occurred as her Senate Committee on Aboriginal Peoples continues its study on what a new relationship between Canada and First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples might look like.
• Monday, December 18 — Senator Vernon White inspired grade 10 Civics students at All Saints Catholic High School with a SENgage talk about his work and experiences in the Senate and in his former role as a police officer and chief.