{"id":41661,"date":"2016-10-21T13:53:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-21T17:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=41661"},"modified":"2016-10-21T16:02:30","modified_gmt":"2016-10-21T20:02:30","slug":"brock-in-the-news-october-15-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2016\/10\/brock-in-the-news-october-15-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock in the News \u2013 October 15-21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>China\u2019s billionaires club of entrepreneurs embarks on cross-Canada tour<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As Chinese business leaders begin an eight-day Canadian tour to meet with politicians and corporate leaders, Political Science professor Charles Burton weighs in on what the business leaders may hope to achieve while overseas: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalpost.com\/news\/canada\/chinas-billionaires-on-cross-country-tour-to-meet-canadas-corporate-and-political-elite\" target=\"_blank\">National Post<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/politics\/china-billionaires-club-canada-tour-1.3807693\" target=\"_blank\">CBC<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/business\/chinese-billionaires-message-to-trudeau-open-trade-and-investment-further-1.3120743\" target=\"_blank\">CTV News<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thespec.com\/news-story\/6913883-china-s-billionaires-club-of-entrepreneurs-embarks-on-cross-canada-tour\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hamilton Spectator<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/ipolitics.ca\/2016\/10\/16\/chinas-billionaires-club-of-entrepreneurs-embarks-on-cross-canada-tour\/\" target=\"_blank\">iPolitics<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macleans.ca\/economy\/chinese-billionaires-urge-trudeau-to-open-trade-further\/\" target=\"_blank\">Macleans<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/reportca.net\/2016\/10\/chinese-billionaires-message-to-trudeau-open-trade-and-investment-even-further-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Report 24 Canada<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Is your IT department prepared for a ransomware attack?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>October is Cyber Security Awareness Month and Goodman School of Business professor Michael Armstrong discusses in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/report-on-business\/rob-commentary\/is-your-companys-it-prepared-for-a-ransomware-attack\/article32443950\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Globe and Mail<\/a> whether or not businesses are sufficiently prepared.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cheechoo hopes to inspire at annual leadership summit<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chancellor Shirley Cheechoo will be speaking at the annual Niagara Leadership Summit for Women at Brock University this weekend. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarathisweek.com\/news-story\/6918769-cheechoo-hopes-to-inspire-at-annual-leadership-summit\/\" target=\"_blank\">Niagara this Week<\/a> sat down with Cheechoo to talk about her role as a female leader.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Chinese business leaders begin an eight-day Canadian tour to meet with politicians and corporate leaders, Political Science professor Charles Burton weighs in on what the business leaders may hope to achieve while overseas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":40812,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,1,4],"tags":[4008,4395,3262],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41661"}],"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=41661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}