{"id":44782,"date":"2017-05-12T13:22:22","date_gmt":"2017-05-12T17:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=44782"},"modified":"2017-05-12T13:22:22","modified_gmt":"2017-05-12T17:22:22","slug":"brock-in-the-news-may-6-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2017\/05\/brock-in-the-news-may-6-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock in the News \u2014 May 6-12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>New documentary sheds light on Yonge St. fracas<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/gta\/2017\/05\/05\/the-yonge-street-riot-of-1992-or-was-it-an-uprising-paradkar.html\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto Star<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citynews.ca\/video\/2017\/05\/03\/video-re-living-the-yonge-street-riots\/\" target=\"_blank\">City News<\/a> profiled Professor Simon Black earlier this week to discuss a new documentary he co-produced about the Yonge Street uprising that took place 25 years ago.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The politics of compassionate care leave<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Professor Kate Bezanson joined Anna Maria Tremonti from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/radio\/thecurrent\/the-current-for-may-10-2017-1.4106889\" target=\"_blank\">CBC The Current<\/a> to talk about federal and provincial policy regarding extended absences from work when taking care of a child with a serious illness.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brock prof: Link between smoking moms, infant obesity<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While smoking during pregnancy has been proven to contribute to low birth rates among infants, new research from Professor Danielle Molnar also demonstrates that smoking puts children at a higher risk for obesity within the first two years: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stcatharinesstandard.ca\/2017\/05\/02\/smoking-when-pregnant-increases-risk-of-obese-kids\" target=\"_blank\">St. Catharines Standard<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Report urges new thinking for Northern Ontario<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A new study by Professor Charles Conteh is giving Northern communities the headway it needs to start developing economically. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesudburystar.com\/2017\/05\/09\/report-urges-new-thinking-for-northern-ontario\" target=\"_blank\">Sudbury Star<\/a> presented a number of highlights from the report this week.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The surprising reason you need to take a rest day<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Is too much exercise bad for your health? Researchers from Brock University describe why taking a rest day is crucial for bone health: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.menshealth.com\/fitness\/surprising-reason-you-need-to-take-a-recovery-day\" target=\"_blank\">Men\u2019s Health US<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a look at some of the media hits for Brock University this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":39007,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,1],"tags":[4188,3095,5245,4566,3856],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44782"}],"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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44782\/revisions"}],"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=44782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}