{"id":59974,"date":"2019-08-30T10:29:33","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T14:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=59974"},"modified":"2019-08-30T16:34:50","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T20:34:50","slug":"brock-media-clips-for-friday-aug-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2019\/08\/brock-media-clips-for-friday-aug-30\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock Media Clips for Friday, Aug. 30"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s a look at some of the media attention Brock University received recently.<\/p>\n<p><strong>College and university students returning to Niagara: <\/strong>Sunday is going to be a busy day at Brock with 2,400 students moving into eight residences. <a href=\"iheartradio.ca\/610cktb\/news\/college-and-university-students-returning-to-niagara-1.9893114\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CKTB wrote about the Move-In Day plans<\/a> and interviewed Director of Residences, Jamie Fleming.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>B.C. selling less legal cannabis than any province other than P.E.I.: <\/strong>Associate Professor of Operations Research Michael Armstrong continues to be an authoritative voice around retail cannabis issues in Canada. A story about the issue was published by Canadian Press, getting picked up by more than 200 newspapers and radio stations across the country including the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/canada\/british-columbia\/article-bc-sells-less-legal-cannabis-than-any-province-other-than-pei\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Globe and Mail<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/vancouver\/2019\/08\/28\/bc-selling-less-legal-cannabis-than-any-province-other-than-pei.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Toronto Star<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Canada Deports Chinese Dissident, Brushing Off Concerns He Faces Jail: <\/strong>Brock University Associate Professor of Political Science Charles Burton weighed in on the deportation of Yang Wei, who Burton believes will face brutal treatment upon his return to a Chinese prison. The story was picked up by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/08\/28\/world\/asia\/canada-yang-wei-deportation-china.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Times<\/a> and Burton was interviewed by a number of radio, television and newspaper outlets. Burton was also interviewed this week by local radio station <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iheartradio.ca\/610cktb\/audio\/remaking-canada-s-china-strategy-a-new-direction-that-puts-canadian-interests-first-1.9862984\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CKTB 610<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Insight into local politics made retiring Brock prof a media favourite: <\/strong>Retired Political Science Professor David Siegel was featured in an article in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stcatharinesstandard.ca\/news-story\/9570672-insight-into-local-politics-made-retiring-brock-prof-a-media-favourite\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">St. Catharines Standard<\/a>. Siegel has been a go-to voice for political commentary in the media, and he says that will continue in his retirement.<\/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":18,"featured_media":57126,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,1],"tags":[4008,2897,5729,4395,1281],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59974"}],"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=59974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59975,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59974\/revisions\/59975"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}