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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau marked International Women's Day at a ¸£Àû¼§×Ôοevent, speaking with Tanya van Biesen, executive director of Catalyst Canada (photo by Yana Kaz)

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was at University of Toronto’s downtown Toronto campus today to mark International Women’s Day at the Rotman School of Management, kicking off a busy month packed with fascinating events – including a visit by a bestselling author with an inside scoop on Donald Trump’s White House, Olympic gold medallist Rosie MacLennan sharing her secrets to success, and dozens of accomplished women speaking about empowering women and girls all over the world.

Here’s a taste of what’s in store as (fingers crossed) the weather gets warmer:

March 7

Today, hear Michael Wolff, journalist and author of Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, . As of writing this, there are still a limited number of tickets available.

March 8

It’s International Women’s Day – an opportunity to highlight the amazing accomplishments of women around the world while acknowledging we have much more to do to achieve equality.

U of T’s Munk School of Global Affairs and the United Nations are , speaking about how to empower at-risk women and girls, particularly in developing countries.

For a conversation about women’s rights and health, students at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health are .

The Faculty of Kinesiology & Physical Education is bringing Olympians to U of T, including gold medal-winning trampolinist Rosie MacLennan and basketball player Tamara Tatham, for – so don’t forget your running shoes.

The Faculty of Law will be hosting filmmaker Sarah Polley, lawyers Alexi Wood and Jonathan Lisus, and Deepa Mattoo, legal director of the Barbara Schlifer Clinic, .


U of T's MacLennan, who won gold at the Rio Olympics, takes part in She Moves! on International Women's Day, March 8. (photo by David Ramos via Getty Images)

March 9

Author Robyn Maynard, ¸£Àû¼§×Ôοlecturer Beverly Bain and sculptor and anti-prison organizer Sheena Hoszko , at ¸£Àû¼§×ÔοMississauga.

features a keynote on medical management of transgender kids by Princeton's Catherine Clune-Taylor. 

March 14

Listen to the Canadian ambassador to Italy and the Canadian ambassador to the EU . 

At ¸£Àû¼§×ÔοMississauga, .

March 19-20

To mark the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (IDERD), and will be looking at anti-racism change in postsecondary institutions. 

March 21

of Urban Systems Engineering Mark Fox will be . 

March 22

¸£Àû¼§×ÔοScarborough Indigenous Elder Wendy Phillips will be leading the , teaching attendees to prepare and cook a number of Indigenous dishes, and talk about connections to the environment around us through what we eat.

March 22-23

examining how women in the Middle East and North Africa are making use of cyberspace, and in particular, social networking sites, to explore new possibilities to transform virtual sites into feminist spaces, and to fight against the increasing threats of surveillance and censorship.

March 27

What data are companies collecting about you? Join Ron Deibert, director of the Citizen Lab at Munk School of Global Affairs, for a

 

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