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Inclusive and Accessible Spaces

Starting in 2019, Intercultural Learning and the Intercultural Ambassadors Team began a project to map inclusive and accessible spaces at TRU. If you have suggestions for how to update and improve the list, please email intercultural@tru.ca.

Ablution Stations

Old Main: in the BMO Student Street main bathrooms (on the first floor at the major hallway intersection west of Starbucks, adjacent to the Breastfeeding and Parenting room.)

Accessible Washrooms

TRU has a number of accessible washrooms that are available for use by anyone in the TRU community or by visitors:

  • Old Main (OM): 1st floor, around the corner from the Medical Centre (OM1461)
  • Old Main: 2nd floor, across from OM2402
  • Old Main: 1st floor, across from OM1631
  • Brown Family House of Learning (HL): 2nd floor beside HL250 (Door is labeled all gender, the sign is labeled accessible washroom)
  • Trades and Technology Building (TT): 1st floor, TT126
  • Campus Activity Centre (CAC): Various locations on all three floors.
  • The Den pub: 2nd Floor Campus Activity Centre
  • Cplul'kw'ten (Gathering Place): Two washrooms, both in the entryway
  • Human Resources building: Entry #2 down the hallway to the right
  • TRU Residence: 1st floor, down the hallway past the reception desk
  • Science: 2nd floor, across from S273
  • Science: 3rd floor, across from S371
All Gender Washrooms

TRU has a number of single-stall washrooms that are available for use by anyone in the TRU community or by visitors, regardless of gender identity or expression:

  • TRU Library: 1st floor
  • Old Main (OM): 1st floor beside Medical Centre (OM1461)
  • Old Main: 1st floor, across from OM1631
  • Old Main: 2nd floor beside OM2425
  • Old Main: second floor across from OM2402
  • Brown Family House of Learning (HL): 2nd floor beside HL250 (Door is labeled all gender, the sign is labeled accessible washroom) and 3rd-floor Library space
  • Trades and Technology Building (TT): First floor, TT126
  • Campus Activity Centre (Independent Centre): Across from the member service desk on the 1st floor
  • The Den pub: 2nd Floor Campus Activity Centre
  • Cplul'kw'ten (Gathering Place): Two washrooms, both in the entryway
  • Human Resources building: Entry #2 down the hallway to the right
  • McGill Residence: Near the front desk
  • Science: 2nd floor, across from S273
  • Science: 3rd floor, across from S371
  • Nursing (NPH): All washrooms
ATMs
  • Campus Activity Centre: First floor in the Rotunda beside the bookstore
  • Old Main: Across from Starbucks on the first floor
  • Brown Family House of Learning: First floor near Tim Hortons
Breastfeeding and Parenting Room

Old Main: 1st floor, adjacent to the BMO Student Street bathrooms. The door has a code that is available at OM 1631. More information is available at the room's webpage

Change Tables (Infant)

There are infant change tables available on campus, including:

  • Campus Activity Centre: On the third floor
  • Old Main: Inside the Breastfeeding and Parenting Room
  • Brown Family House of Learning: In wheelchair accessible washroom near the entrance to HL150
  • Arts and Education (AE): 2nd floor, in wheelchair accessible washroom across from AE 204
Change Tables (Adult)

Old Main: Second floor, next to OM 2674.

Cplul’kw’ten / The Gathering Place

Also known as House 5, Cplul’kw’ten is a welcoming Indigenous centre on campus. For more information, visit The Gathering Place's webpage.

Indigenous and Intercultural Offices

Indigenous Student Development and Intercultural Learning share space in House 4, next to Cplul’kw’ten. Kyra Garson and Amie McLean have the Intercultural Learning Offices upstairs. Lex Edwards, Indigenous Mentor and Community Coordinator, has the office downstairs.

Medical Clinic

Old Main: 1st floor, OM 1461. For more information, vsit the Medical Clinic's webpage.

Multi-Faith Prayer Rooms

Old Main: Two rooms available on the 2nd floor:

  • North Room: OM 2496
  • South Room: OM 2494

For more information, visit Multi-Faith Chaplaincy. When the room is occupied, a listing entitled "BOOKED" will appear in this calendar below:

Scent-Reduced Environment

TRU is committed to maintaining a scent-reduced environment. For more information, visit this webpage.

Science Building

Accessible elevators and ramps

  • 1st floor access via north entrance (across the street from nursing building). There is an elevator to the right after you enter the building, near faculty offices. Elevator is accessible through an automatic inside door.
  • 2nd floor access via south entrance, park in lot R and take path on left that leads to south side entrance. Entry into building only after passing through two automatic doors.
  • 2nd floor access via west entrance, park in lot G use circular ramp up to west entrance (across from TRU gym). Entry into building only after passing through two automatic doors.
  • There are accessible parking spots in LOT R (east), Lot G (west) and Lot C (north) sides of science building.
Sharps Disposal
  • Old Main: Medical Centre - 1st floor, OM 1461.
  • House 5: Cplul'kwten, the Gathering Place, inside the washroom
Wellness Centre

Old Main Building Room OM 1479. For more information, visit: the Wellness Centre website.

Wheelchair Accessible Showers

Wheelchair accessible showers are available across campus:

  • The TRU Gym
  • Trades and Technology Building: 1st floor
  • Brown Family House of Learning: Lower floor, beside the TRU Generator.

Anti-Racism Resources

This ever-growing list was created by the Intercultural Ambassadors to provide educational materials and recommendations that will help you learn and unlearn matters of equity, diversity, inclusion and anti-racism. If you have suggestions for how to update and improve the list, please email intercultural@tru.ca

Websites
Videos
Podcasts
Articles
Books
Films and TV series
  • 13th (Ava DuVernay) - Netflix 
  • American Son (Kenny Leon) — Netflix
  • Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975 — Available to rent
  • Clemency (Chinonye Chukwu) — Available to rent
  • Dear White People (Justin Simien) — Netflix
  • Fruitvale Station (Ryan Coogler) — Available to rent
  • I Am Not Your Negro (James Baldwin doc) — Available to rent or on Kanopy
  • If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins) — Hulu
  • Just Mercy (Destin Daniel Cretton) — Available to rent
  • King In The Wilderness  — HBO
  • See You Yesterday (Stefon Bristol) — Netflix
  • Selma (Ava DuVernay) — Available to rent
  • The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution — Available to rent
  • The Hate U Give (George Tillman Jr.) — Hulu with Cinemax
  • When They See Us (Ava DuVernay) — Netflix
  • Rhymes for Young Ghouls – CBC Gem
  • Future History – CBC Gem
  • Kayak to Klemtu – Crave
  • Indian Horse – Crave
  • Our People will be Healed – Amazon Prime
  • Stolen – Amazon Prime
  • Falls Around Her – Crave
  • Spirit to Soar – CBC Gem
  • Mohawk Girls – CBC Gem
  • National Film Board Collection: Black Communities in Canada
  • National Film Board Collection: Indigenous Cinema 
  • Kanehsatake270 Years of Resistance
More films on Diversity & Social Justice

Immigration, Assimilation, and Acculturation  

  • El Norte  
  • Rabbit Proof Fence 
  • Lost Boys of Sudan  
  • Abandoned: The Betrayal of America’s Immigrants  
  • Farmingville  
  • The Gatekeeper  
  • Split Decision  
  • Banana Split 
  • Real Women Have Curves  
  • A Better Life 
  • Kite Runner 
  • The Visitor 
  • Smoke Signals 

Issues of Race and Ethnicity 

  • 4 Little Girls  
  • Do the Right Thing   
  • Mi Familia  
  • Smoke Signals  
  • Beloved In America  
  • Joy Luck Club  
  • Rosewood  
  • The Help  
  • American History X  
  • White Identity Theory: Origins and Prospect  
  • Real Women Have Curves  

 Institutionalized Prejudice 

  • Amazing Grace  
  • To Kill a Mockingbird  
  • Sounder Lone Star  
  • Amistad  
  • Skin 
  • Come See the Paradise  
  • Das Experiment  
  • The Help  
  • Held in Trust: The Story of Lieutenant Henry O. Flipper  
  • Violence: An American Tradition 
  • Black Like Me  
  • The House We Live In 

 Issues of Social Justice 

  • Bowling for Columbine  
  • Dead Man Walking  
  • Fahrenheit 9/11  
  • The Control Room  
  • In Whose Honor?  
  • The Jaundiced Eye  
  • Supporting Youth: Their Education and Survival  
  • Who Killed Vincent Chin?  
  • When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts 
  • City of God 
  • Undefeated  
Organizations to follow on social media
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