{"id":86718,"date":"2023-06-29T13:23:44","date_gmt":"2023-06-29T17:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=86718"},"modified":"2023-06-29T13:23:44","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T17:23:44","slug":"in-the-news-high-school-violence-affordable-housing-and-a-media-merger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2023\/06\/in-the-news-high-school-violence-affordable-housing-and-a-media-merger\/","title":{"rendered":"IN THE NEWS: High school violence, affordable housing and a media merger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In recent media appearances, Brock experts discussed violence in high schools, ongoing research at Crawford Lake, affordable housing challenges and a potential print media merger.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Saintsfights: Student violence at St. Catharines high school captured on video:<\/strong> Professor of Child and Youth Studies Tony Volk spoke to the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/nd\/news\/niagara-region\/2023\/06\/23\/saintsfights-student-violence-at-st-catharines-high-school-captured-on-video.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Toronto Star<\/a><\/em> about violence in schools and the role social media may play in influencing change.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The small Ontario Lake at the centre of a major geological debate:<\/strong> Professor of Earth Sciences Francine McCarthy spoke to <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/ca\/podcast\/canadian-legends-loverboy-back-on-tour-this-summer\/id1604604064?i=1000618440494\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Global News Radio<\/a> about her ongoing research at Crawford Lake, which is part of <span class=\"\">international efforts to define the<\/span><span class=\"\">\u00a0Anthropocene<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"\">formally<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"\">as a new epoch in geologic time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Couple living in trailer accused of violating Pelham bylaws:<\/strong> Assistant Professor of Political Science Joanne Heritz spoke to the<em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stcatharinesstandard.ca\/news\/niagara-region\/couple-living-in-trailer-accused-of-violating-pelham-bylaws\/article_449235e7-bc72-5ac5-b68c-f8c4020a2f98.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">St. Catharines Standard<\/a><\/em> about the drastic measures people need to take when they can\u2019t find affordable housing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Impact of potential Postmedia\/Nordstar merger:<\/strong> Associate Professor of Communication, Popular Culture and Film Russell Johnston spoke to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iheartradio.ca\/610cktb\/audio\/russell-johnston-brock-university-impact-a-postmedia-nordstar-merger-might-have-on-local-media-outlets-1.19837939?mode=Article\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Newstalk 610 CKTB<\/a> about the ways local media would be impacted by a proposed merger between Postmedia and Nordstar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In recent media appearances, Brock experts discussed violence in high schools, ongoing research at Crawford Lake, affordable housing challenges and a potential print media merger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":86719,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,6,41,38],"tags":[348,522,5662,8198,9432,3502],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86718"}],"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=86718"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86725,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86718\/revisions\/86725"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}