{"id":58300,"date":"2019-05-31T12:23:37","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T16:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=58300"},"modified":"2019-05-31T16:14:17","modified_gmt":"2019-05-31T20:14:17","slug":"brock-media-clips-for-friday-may-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2019\/05\/brock-media-clips-for-friday-may-31\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock Media Clips for Friday, May 31"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s a look at some of the media attention Brock University received recently.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MOU between Brock, Community Care aims to help vulnerable communities:\u00a0<\/strong>The signing of a memorandum of understanding between Brock University and Community Care, St. Catharines and Thorold was featured by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.academica.ca\/top-ten\/mou-between-brock-community-care-aims-help-vulnerable-communities\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Academica<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yourtv.tv\/node\/186731\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YourTv Niagara<\/a>. The strengthened partnership, which was formally signed by Brock University President Gervan Fearon and Community Care CEO Betty-Lou Souter, aims to enhance the services and supports to the agency through active learning and experiential research.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Doug Ford is obsessed with running Toronto. What does that mean for Ottawa?:<\/strong> Political Science Professor David Siegel was quoted in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/ottawa\/ford-obsession-toronto-questions-for-ottawa-1.5153858\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CBC article<\/a> saying Ontario Premier Doug Ford seems to have limited knowledge of the province outside of Toronto.<\/p>\n<p><strong>New Brunswickers are avoiding buying pot with credit cards, sales figures show:<\/strong> During a <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/5298928\/marijuana-credit-cards-border\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Global News report<\/a>, Associate Professor of Operations Research Michael Armstrong spoke about the anonymity that comes with purchasing marijuana products using cash. In a separate <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/5306845\/hamiltons-legal-pot-stores-frustrated-with-supply\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Global News report<\/a>, Armstrong also discussed ongoing shortages in Ontario\u2019s cannabis stores.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stop smoking program shutters after Ford government pulls funding:<\/strong> The defunding of a smoking cessation program, which was independently run but had been housed at Brock University since 2000, was discussed in articles from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/toronto\/smoking-leave-the-pack-behind-doug-ford-1.5156620\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CBC<\/a> and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/pmn\/news-pmn\/canada-news-pmn\/ontario-cuts-funding-to-youth-smoking-cessation-program-will-close-in-june\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>National Post<\/em><\/a>. Leave The Pack Behind was launched by Associate Professor of Health Sciences Kelli-an Lawrance and had helped more than 40,000 young people quit smoking.<\/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\">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":58240,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,39,7,6,1,4,38],"tags":[3894,2311,2897,7488,522,5398,594,3711,4395],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58300"}],"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=58300"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58302,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58300\/revisions\/58302"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}