Pride @Home Showcase
For the past 9 years, the TRUSU Equity Committee has hosted the annual TRUSU Pride Parade to celebrate the LGBTQ+ community, and to publicly claim Thompson Rivers University as a Continue reading
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Updates from the TRUSU Equity Committee
Pride @ Home Participation Ideas
You’re invited to help publicly claim Thompson Rivers University as a space that welcomes and respects the LGBTQ+ community to live, work, and study! We will be gathering community submissions Continue reading
9th Annual TRUSU Pride Goes Virtual!
The 9th Annual TRUSU Pride Parade has been transformed into a digital celebration of the queer history of pride that started with the 1969 Stonewall riots, a space to celebrate Continue reading
Fighting for Global Human Rights: Summer 2020
Defending human rights and ensuring that everyone is treated fairly regardless of who they are, what they look like, or what they believe is a fundamental value of the TRU Continue reading
Join TRU’s Anti-Racism Task Force!
Recent and long-standing issues of racial discrimination have focused TRU’s attention on the inequitable treatment of black, brown, Indigenous, Asian, and other racialized communities. Community institutions like TRU have a responsibility Continue reading
Donate to Period Promise at TRU
Nobody should have to pick between feeding their family and being able to afford basic hygiene products. But nearly 1 in 4 Canadian women have struggled to buy period products Continue reading
Greetings Around The World
Welcome to TRU! Whether you’re a first-year and experiencing campus for the first time or a fourth-year in your last school semester, the TRUSU Equity Committee is pleased to see Continue reading
What We Heard: Women of TRU Project
Starting on January 16, 2019 the TRUSU Equity Committee launched the Women of TRU project to raise awareness about gender issues in academia or on campus and to provide a Continue reading
Women of TRU: Overcoming Gender Barriers
The TRUSU Equity Committee is pleased to launch our project “Women of TRU: Overcoming Gender Barriers” to raise awareness about gender issues in academia or on campus and provide a Continue reading
Fighting for global human rights: A semesterly update
On December 10th the TRUSU Equity Committee marked Human Rights Day by participating in Amnesty International’s Write for Rights event at TRU. The Committee helped write letters calling attention to, Continue reading
How the SRP Changed My Life
The TRUSU Equity Committee believes in the power of the Student Refugee Program (SRP) to change lives and that’s why we’re asking you to vote Yes in the referendum to Continue reading
I’m Voting YES for the SRP
Dear Members, I’m voting Yes in the referendum to establish the student refugee program (SRP) and I think you should too! We all have an important decision to make on Continue reading
Five Reasons to Support the SRP
The Student Refugee Program (SRP) from World University Services Canada (WUSC) is a unique program that the TRUSU Equity Committee wants to bring to TRU. On November 21st-23rd 2018 we Continue reading
From refugee camp to McGill student: Canadian sponsorship program makes a dream come true
Thanks to the Student Sponsorship Program (SRP), Amelie Fabian will be able to create the life she wants for herself By Fatima Muneer in Ottawa, Canada. This story was originally Continue reading
The Lucky Ones – Student Refugee Story
In 1991, the collapse of the Somali Democratic Republic and the resulting civil war led to hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing from Somalia to Kenya, with many finding refuge Continue reading