{"id":10620,"date":"2011-06-20T12:38:43","date_gmt":"2011-06-20T17:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=10620"},"modified":"2011-06-20T12:38:43","modified_gmt":"2011-06-20T17:38:43","slug":"brock-hosts-binational-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2011\/06\/brock-hosts-binational-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock hosts binational conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10619\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10619\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10619 \" title=\"Carol Merriam, Brigadier-General Gerry Champagne, Lieutenant-General J. M. Duval, David Petis, Consul General Marta Moszczenska, Douglas Kneale\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/noradconference.jpg\" alt=\"Carol Merriam, Brigadier-General Gerry Champagne, Lieutenant-General J. M. Duval, David Petis, Consul General Marta Moszczenska, Douglas Kneale\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10619\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left: Carol Merriam, Associate Dean of Humanities; Brigadier-General Gerry Champagne; Lieutenant-General J. M. Duval; David Petis, Vice-President University Advancement; Marta Moszczenska, Consulate General of Canada in Buffalo; Douglas Kneale, Dean of Humanities.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Top military and foreign officials visited Brock last week as part of a five-day <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=10535\">Binational Executive Seminar on Canada-U.S. Relations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The seminar was held in partnership with the University at Buffalo. It hosted legislative and political staff members from federal and state\/provincial governments in Canada and the U.S. and aimed to increase understanding of their counterparts across the border.<\/p>\n<p>Attendees included <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmp-cpm.forces.gc.ca\/dsa-dns\/sa-ns\/ab\/sobv-vbos-eng.asp?mAction=View&amp;mBiographyID=504\" target=\"_blank\">Lieutenant-General J. M. Duval<\/a>, deputy commander of NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command), and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmp-cpm.forces.gc.ca\/dsa-dns\/sa-ns\/ab\/sobv-vbos-eng.asp?mAction=View&amp;mBiographyID=627\" target=\"_blank\">Brigadier-General Gerry Champagne<\/a>, deputy commander of Canada Command.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top officials visited Brock for a five-day seminar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54,3],"tags":[30],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10620"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10620"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10622,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10620\/revisions\/10622"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}