{"id":42549,"date":"2016-12-09T14:41:40","date_gmt":"2016-12-09T18:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=42549"},"modified":"2016-12-09T14:41:59","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T18:41:59","slug":"brock-in-the-news-december-3-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2016\/12\/brock-in-the-news-december-3-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock in the News \u2014 December 3-9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Brock shines light on gender violence<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A series of events around Brock University marked National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women on the anniversary of the \u00c9cole Polytechnique massacre in Montreal: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stcatharinesstandard.ca\/2016\/12\/06\/brock-shines-light-on-gender-violence\" target=\"_blank\">St. Catharines Standard<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iheartradio.ca\/610cktb\/news\/local\/brock-marking-day-or-remembrance-and-action-on-violence-against-women-tuesday-1.2251281\" target=\"_blank\">610 CKTB<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Enlisting Beijing to help stop fentanyl exports won\u2019t be easy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In this week\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/opinion\/enlisting-beijing-to-help-stop-fentanyl-exports-wont-be-easy\/article33207872\/\" target=\"_blank\">Globe and Mail<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/ipolitics.ca\/2016\/12\/06\/trudeaus-invite-to-meet-chinese-premier-inspired-fundraiser-says-businessman\/\" target=\"_blank\">iPolitics<\/a>, foreign affairs expert Charles Burton discusses Canada-China relations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Race as a social construction<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Psychology professor Gordon Hodson explains in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/blog\/without-prejudice\/201612\/race-social-construction\" target=\"_blank\">Psychology Today<\/a> what race as a social construction really means and how it affects our perception of others.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rankin Run creator honoured by province<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Known for her volunteer work and dedication to the community, Brock alumna Mary Ann Edwards was awarded the Ontario Medal for Good Citizenship for her local contributions: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stcatharinesstandard.ca\/2016\/12\/05\/rankin-run-creator-honoured-by-province\" target=\"_blank\">St. Catharines Standard<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a look at the media appearances by our Brock University faculty and staff this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":39007,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,1],"tags":[4008,3273,2365,4706],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42549"}],"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=42549"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42551,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42549\/revisions\/42551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}