{"id":57573,"date":"2019-04-18T10:08:43","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T14:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=57573"},"modified":"2019-04-18T14:28:33","modified_gmt":"2019-04-18T18:28:33","slug":"brock-media-clips-for-thursday-april-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2019\/04\/brock-media-clips-for-thursday-april-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock Media Clips for Thursday, April 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s a look at some of the media attention Brock University received recently.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pot supply not the problem behind cannabis industry growing pains: <\/strong>Associate Professor of Operations Research Michael Armstrong spoke about various challenges in Canada\u2019s legalized marijuana industry in pieces from the\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/cannabis\/2019\/04\/17\/pot-supply-not-the-problem-behind-cannabis-industry-growing-pains.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Toronto Star<\/a><\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/5177183\/closing-illegal-pot-shops-uphill-battle\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Global News<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iheartradio.ca\/newstalk-1010\/news\/ontario-budget-says-cannabis-store-will-lose-25-million-this-fiscal-year-but-profit-next-year-1.9068080\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Newstalk 1010<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iheartradio.ca\/610cktb\/audio\/six-month-pot-anniversary-how-are-we-doing-1.9087376\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Newstalk 610 CKTB<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Amalgamations have never resulted in cost savings in government, says political science professor:<\/strong> A talk by Political Science Professor David Siegel about a Niagara Community Observatory policy brief he wrote was the focus of articles by the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thespec.com\/news-story\/9288279-amalgamations-have-never-resulted-in-cost-savings-in-government-says-political-science-professor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>St. Catharines Standard<\/em><\/a> and <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.niagarathisweek.com\/news-story\/9287507--momentous-decision-looms-for-niagara-with-governance-review\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Niagara This Week<\/a><\/em>. Siegel said that proposed changes to the size of Niagara\u2019s municipal governments would likely not produce substantial cost savings.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s a feminist government? Canada, and Justin Trudeau, grapple with the question:<\/strong> A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/04\/15\/world\/canada\/trudeau-jody-wilson-raybould-feminism.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>New York Times<\/em> story<\/a> about what a feminist government in Canada looks like featured quotes from Associate Professor of Sociology Kate Bezanson.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Author, scholar and activist Cecil Foster at library Saturday:<\/strong> Assistant Professor of Sociology Tamari Kitossa was quoted in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stcatharinesstandard.ca\/whatson-story\/9290092-author-scholar-and-activist-cecil-foster-at-library-saturday\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>St. Catharines Standard<\/em> article<\/a> about a Brock-sponsored reading and book signing by author Cecil Foster at the St. Catharines Public Library.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Former Brock men\u2019s hockey coach Mike Pelino going to Russian final for fourth time in six years:<\/strong> Former Brock men\u2019s hockey coach Mike Pelino\u2019s return to the Kontinental Hockey League finals in Russia as an assistant coach with Avangard Omsk was the subject of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stcatharinesstandard.ca\/sports-story\/9280213-former-brock-men-s-hockey-coach-mike-pelino-going-to-russian-final-for-fourth-time-in-six-years\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>St. Catharines Standard<\/em> article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>If you know of an appearance or story about a Brock faculty member, student, athlete or alumni, please drop us a line with a link to the story at <a href=\"mailto:universitycom@brocku.ca?subject=Brock%20University%20Media%20Clips%20Suggestion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">universitycom@brocku.ca<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s a look at some of the media attention Brock University received recently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":49807,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39,7,6,1,4,38,58],"tags":[256,4437,522,594,698,63],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57573"}],"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\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57574,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57573\/revisions\/57574"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}