“Media Talk” is a recurring summary of select Brock faculty, staff and student appearances in the media. If you have details of a media appearance to share with The Brock News, please send them to campusnews@brocku.ca

Charles Burton

Nov. 19: National Post / Vancouver Sun / Ottawa Citizen / Montreal Gazette “It’s been two years, and Harper still hasn’t had a bilateral meeting with China’s president. Is there a deeper issue?”
Featuring comments by Charles Burton, associate professor, Political Science, about Canada-China relations.

Nov. 20: St. Catharines Standard / Welland Tribune / Niagara Falls Review “Brock prof: Toronto council also bullied Ford”
Featuring comments by workplace bullying expert Lisa Barrow, assistant professor, Goodman School of Business. Barrow also conducted radio interviews about this same topic on radio stations AM 900 CHML (Hamilton, Ont.); AM 610 CKTB (St. Catharines, Ont.); AM 1290 CJBK (London, Ont.); MIX 97 FM (Belleville, Ont.); and CKWS 104.3 FM (Kingston, Ont.).

Nov. 20: St. Catharines Standard “The Selfie has arrived; Word beats out twerking, bitcoin and others for place in Oxford dictionary”
Featuring comments by Scott Henderson, associate professor of Communication, Popular Culture and Film.

Nov. 20: Maclean’s “Bombardier’s secret weapon in China”
Story about the president of Bombardier China, a unit of the Canadian transportation and aerospace giant, which features comments by Charles Burton, associate professor, Political Science.

Nov. 20: Niagara Falls Review / Welland Tribune / St. Catharines Standard “Peace award winners changing lives”
Featuring comments by Raoul Masseur, Catholic chaplain with Brock’s Faith and Life Centre, who was one of five people to receive Peace Awards by the YMCA of Niagara.

Nov. 21: Toronto Star “Schools experiment with mass online classes”
Featuring comments by Kate Cassidy, director of Youth University, Continuing Education and Community Learning.

Nov. 21: St. Catharines Standard / Welland Tribune / Niagara Falls Review “A shot felt around the world”
Story about the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, featuring comments by Paul Hamilton, associate professor, Political Science.

Nov. 21: Windsor Star “Canada’s panda-monium comes at a price, Oxford researchers say”
Featuring comments by Charles Burton, associate professor, Political Science.

Nov. 22: St. Catharines Standard / Welland Tribune / Niagara Falls Review “Brock grads score well landing jobs”
Featuring comments by Murray Knuttila, Brock’s former Provost and Vice-President, Academic.

Nov. 22: CBC Radio “Here and Now” – “Keeping A Job In Retail”
Featuring comments by Kendra Coulter, assistant professor, Labour Studies.

Nov. 23: St. Catharines Standard “New bird scarer bright idea”
Featuring comments by CCOVI viticulturist Jim Willwerth.

Nov. 28: CBC “The Nature of Things” – “Survival of the Fabulous”
Documentary by filmmaker Bryce Sage that explores the nature vs. nurture side of the issue of homosexuality, which features an interview with Anthony Bogaert, professor, Health Sciences.

Nov. 28: St. Catharines Standard / Welland Tribune / Niagara Falls Review “New tool for Niagara-focused info”
Featuring comments by Madelyn Law, associate professor, Health Sciences, about the launch of Niagara Connects’ latest resource, Niagaraknowledgeexchange.com – a place for people to access and exchange news and ideas on Niagara-focused planning, collaboration, learning, innovation and community action.

Dec. 2: CHCH-TV (Hamilton) – “Cross Border Shopping”
Featuring comments by Antonia Mantonakis, associate professor of marketing with the Goodman School of Business.

Dec. 3: St. Catharines Standard / Welland Tribune / Niagara Falls Review “Renowned freshwater scientist speaks at Brock”
Featuring comments by Brock alumni John P. Smol (MSc ‘79), recipient of the 2013 Distinguished Mathematics and Science Alumni Award, and Mike Pisaric, professor of Geography at Brock.

Dec. 4: The Globe & Mail “Supporters love a cause – just don’t ask them for money”
The Globe’s business school research roundup, which features comments by Eric Dolansky, assistant professor of marketing with the Goodman School of Business, about his research on price predictability (Third news item: “Predictable prices preferred, even if higher”).

Dec. 5: The Kingston Whig-Standard “COLUMN: Faith communities persecuted in China”
Featuring comments by Charles Burton, associate professor, Political Science.

Dec. 6: The Globe & Mail “The case for bringing Carleton’s business students under one roof”
The Globe’s business school news roundup, which features comments by Don Cyr, Dean, Goodman School of Business, about becoming the first school in Ontario to get CPA accreditation at the Master’s level (Second news item: “Ontario schools receive CPA accreditation”).

Dec. 11: St. Catharines Standard / Welland Tribune / Niagara Falls Review “Healthy food costing too much for the poor”
Featuring comments about food accessibility by Kate Bezanson, chair and associate professor, Sociology.

For more examples of Brock faculty news appearances, please check out the “Researchers in the news” section of Research Services website.