{"id":66780,"date":"2020-06-26T08:30:28","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T12:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=66780"},"modified":"2020-06-26T14:34:29","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T18:34:29","slug":"brock-media-clips-for-friday-june-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2020\/06\/brock-media-clips-for-friday-june-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock Media Clips for Friday, June 26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s a look at some of the media attention Brock University received recently.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fighting post-secondary systemic racism:<\/strong> President Gervan Fearon spoke to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/player\/play\/1754355779896\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CBC<\/a> about ongoing efforts to promote equity and inclusion at Brock University as well as the obligation of all members of society to address systemic discrimination and racism.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Espionage charges against two Canadians proof soft diplomacy with China isn&#8217;t working:<\/strong> Associate Professor of Political Science Charles Burton spoke to the <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/news\/espionage-charges-against-two-canadians-proof-soft-diplomacy-with-china-isnt-working-experts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National Post<\/a>, Ottawa Citizen and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iheartradio.ca\/610cktb\/audio\/professor-charles-burton-brock-u-associate-professor-political-science-1.12751715?mode=Article\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Newstalk 610 CKTB<\/a> about the espionage charges faced by two Canadians currently being held in China.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ottawa urged to earmark billions for child care as provinces reopen:<\/strong> Research from Associate Professor of Sociology and Associate Dean of Social Sciences Kate Bezanson, which advocated for funding to assist the child-care sector as it recovers from the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, was featured in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/gta\/2020\/06\/22\/ottawa-urged-to-earmark-billions-for-child-care-as-provinces-reopen.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Toronto Star article.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Brock voices on YourTV: <\/strong>Professor of Recreation and Leisure Studies Tim O\u2019Connell appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yourtv.tv\/node\/268881\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YourTV Niagara<\/a> to provide an update on a survey he conducted about the importance of outdoor recreation. PhD student Garrick Forman also appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yourtv.tv\/node\/268506\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YourTV Niagara<\/a> to discuss research he is conducting about injuries within the e-sports industry.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brock grads are &#8216;best chances&#8217; to help world facing major issues, says former-PM:<\/strong> The Convocation address from former Prime Minister Paul Martin, which was delivered online to nearly 3,000 graduating Brock students at the University\u2019s Virtual Spring Convocation, was the subject of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stcatharinesstandard.ca\/news\/niagara-region\/2020\/06\/19\/brock-grads-are-best-chances-to-help-world-facing-major-issues-ex-pm-tells-convocation.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">St. Catharines Standard 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 <\/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":66781,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,55,6,1,38],"tags":[4008,156,7488,607,522,9141,5398,4566,9079,1759,5486],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66780"}],"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=66780"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66786,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66780\/revisions\/66786"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}