{"id":40263,"date":"2016-07-22T12:04:16","date_gmt":"2016-07-22T16:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=40263"},"modified":"2016-07-22T13:39:00","modified_gmt":"2016-07-22T17:39:00","slug":"brock-in-the-news-july-16-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2016\/07\/brock-in-the-news-july-16-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock in the News \u2013 July 16-22"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Zika outbreak: Possible case from Florida mosquito investigated<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Brock\u2019s top story of the week features Professor Fiona Hunter as she weighs in on the confirmed Zika virus found in Brazil mosquito and a possible case in Florida with a local mosquito: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/health\/zika-florida-1.3686868\" target=\"_blank\"><em>CBC<\/em><\/a><em>,<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/thenational\/zika-outbreak-possible-case-from-florida-mosquito-investigated-1.3688401\" target=\"_blank\"><em>CBC The National<\/em><\/a><em>, <\/em>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/\/news\/world\/zika-virus-found-in-second-mosquito-species-is-very-bad-news-for-brazil\/article31070755\/?cmpid=rss1&amp;click=sf_globe\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Globe and Mail<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Study to shed light on youth risk taking<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Brock researchers spearheading the Brock Healthy Youth Program received $1.43 million in funding from the Canadian Institutes for Health Research earlier this week, explaining to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stcatharinesstandard.ca\/2016\/07\/20\/study-to-shed-light-on-youth-risk-taking\" target=\"_blank\"><em>St. Catharines Standard<\/em><\/a> the impact of what their research could mean for parents of youth risk takers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Humane jobs are central to a humane economy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Labour Studies Professor Kendra Coulter details in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.ca\/kendra-coulter\/humane-jobs_b_11000160.html?utm_hp_ref=canada-business&amp;ir=Canada+Business\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Huffington Post<\/em><\/a> that Canadian farmers and business are at the forefront of growing and selling ethical products. As practices for respecting animals continue, Coulter questions: Are Canadian workers also being respected?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wellesley should stay distinct, skip costly name change<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>New name, new identity seems to be the objective of Wellesley Township as they consider changing the township\u2019s name. However, Professor Zachary Spicer offers his insight as to why a name change isn\u2019t necessarily the way to go: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newhamburgindependent.ca\/opinion-story\/6773406-wellesley-should-stay-distinct-skip-costly-name-change\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>New Hamburg Independent<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brock\u2019s top story of the week features Professor Fiona Hunter as she weighs in on the confirmed Zika virus found in Brazil mosquito and a possible case in Florida with a local mosquito.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":37735,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3319,6,1],"tags":[4188,485],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40263"}],"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\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40263"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40265,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40263\/revisions\/40265"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}