{"id":64137,"date":"2020-02-21T11:48:58","date_gmt":"2020-02-21T16:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=64137"},"modified":"2020-02-21T12:49:36","modified_gmt":"2020-02-21T17:49:36","slug":"brock-media-clips-for-friday-feb-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2020\/02\/brock-media-clips-for-friday-feb-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock Media Clips for Friday, Feb. 21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s a look at some of the media attention Brock University received recently.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brock launches Canada-Caribbean Institute:<\/strong> The launch of the Canadian-Caribbean Institute by Brock University and the University of the West Indies was featured in articles from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iheartradio.ca\/610cktb\/news\/brock-launches-canada-caribbean-institute-1.10591895\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Newstalk 610 CKTB<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.looptt.com\/content\/institute-canada-caribbean-affairs-launched\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Loop Trinidad and Tobago<\/a>. Brock University President and Vice-Chancellor Gervan Fearon was quoted in both articles, where he spoke about the importance of the collaboration as well as a new scholarship he will be personally contributing to.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Victims of violence in Niagara get help from the sweet science: <\/strong>Professor of Kinesiology Cathy Van Ingen spoke with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/news-story\/9853212-victims-of-violence-in-niagara-get-help-from-the-sweet-science\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rcinet.ca\/en\/2020\/02\/13\/canada-funding-programs-to-support-survivors-of-gendered-violence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Radio Canada International<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iheartradio.ca\/610cktb\/news\/federal-government-backing-brock-university-program-helping-survivors-of-family-violence-1.10566002\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Newstalk 610 CKTB<\/a> about the expansion of a non-contact boxing program for victims of gender-based and family violence. The Niagara portion of the program, which focuses on youth between the ages of 13 and 18, will continue to be run by a team from Brock and is expanding thanks to $320,000 from the federal government.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Is Regina\u2019s Co-op lockout a watershed moment for Canada\u2019s labour movement?:<\/strong> Professor of Labour Studies Larry Savage spoke to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/edmonton\/2020\/02\/09\/this-fight-between-a-union-and-a-co-op-is-threatening-to-divide-the-province-that-birthed-the-canadas-labour-movement.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Toronto Star<\/a>\u00a0about income inequality in society deteriorating the power of unions in an ongoing oil and gas strike in Saskatchewan.<\/p>\n<p><strong>15 months after legalization, 2.8 million Ontarians live in places where cannabis retail is illegal:<\/strong> Associate Professor of Operations Research Michael Armstrong spoke to <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/6453248\/cannabis-retail-illegal-ontario\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Global News<\/a> about the likelihood of ongoing black market cannabis sales in Ontario municipalities that have prohibited legal sales. Armstrong also spoke about corporate layoffs by legal cannabis producers in the <a href=\"https:\/\/lfpress.com\/news\/local-news\/indiva-growing-marijuana-and-its-london-workforce-even-as-other-pot-producers-shrink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">London Free Press<\/a> and elevated legal cannabis prices with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/business\/119647209\/what-if-we-threw-a-cannabis-legalisation-party-and-everyone-still-turned-up-with-their-25-tinny\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stuff New Zealand<\/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 <\/em><a href=\"mailto:universitycom@brocku.ca?subject=Brock%20University%20Media%20Clips%20Suggestion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>universitycom@brocku.ca<\/em><\/a><\/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":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,39,7,6,38],"tags":[8716,4666,7488,522,5398,594,4358,4395],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64137"}],"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=64137"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64140,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64137\/revisions\/64140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}