{"id":87914,"date":"2023-09-15T12:59:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-15T16:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=87914"},"modified":"2024-08-30T15:35:03","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T19:35:03","slug":"in-the-news-baseball-broadcasts-teachers-negotiations-and-mosquitos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2023\/09\/in-the-news-baseball-broadcasts-teachers-negotiations-and-mosquitos\/","title":{"rendered":"IN THE NEWS: Baseball broadcasts, teachers\u2019 negotiations and mosquitos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In recent media appearances, Brock experts discussed baseball radio broadcasts, negotiations between the Ontario government and teachers, an increase in mosquito activity, the impact increased heat has on children in schools and ongoing research related to geologic time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Blue Jays radio broadcasters won\u2019t be returning to road this season: <\/strong>Associate Professor of Sport Management Michael Naraine spoke to the Canadian Press in an article that ran in the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/sports\/baseball\/article-blue-jays-radio-broadcasters-wont-be-returning-to-road-this-season\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Globe and Mail<\/a> <\/em>and dozens of other outlets across the country\u00a0about the Toronto Blue Jays\u2019 decision to have their radio commentators not attend out-of-town games and instead deliver their call of the games remotely.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A bargaining unit representing Toronto high school teachers turns down province\u2019s proposed deal:<\/strong> Professor of Labour Studies Larry Savage spoke to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/listen\/live-radio\/1-82-here-and-now-toronto\/clip\/16008596-a-bargaining-unit-representing-toronto-high-school-teachers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CBC\u2019s <em>Here and Now<\/em><\/a> and the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/politics\/provincial\/ford-government-s-plan-to-keep-toronto-high-school-teachers-on-the-job-faces-a\/article_16566283-4ef6-5817-b024-d708b4ef4933.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Toronto Star<\/a><\/em> about the state of negotiations between the Ontario government and the Ontario Secondary School Teachers\u2019 Federation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8216;Barrage of mosquitoes&#8217; forces organizers to postpone area festival:<\/strong> Professor of Biological Sciences Fiona Hunter spoke to the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/lfpress.com\/news\/local-news\/barrage-of-mosquitoes-forces-organizers-to-postpone-area-festival\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">London Free Press<\/a><\/em> about an increase in mosquito activity that led to the cancellation of a southwestern Ontario festival.<\/p>\n<p><strong>With extreme heat, schools struggle to provide students with optimal learning environment:<\/strong> Professor of Kinesiology Stephen Cheung spoke to <a href=\"https:\/\/ca.sports.yahoo.com\/news\/extreme-heat-schools-struggle-students-104026041.html?guccounter=1&amp;guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9hcHAuYWdpbGl0eXByLmNvbS8&amp;guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAIJ8iRBsmYWKmdoIMlsH_Aq_YNIQ6oT1MeotzYFSyBdtvfhrMr94uo0ZBj-v17wIrUp4OSUlLwHczzUk1EJPCDH5zeTHfckPdXFmfk47eh7_eQpb8STDWbC_HpNDsrC2eeU0dHfq0DUDzifrR_9fJutJsBfrcpMfvThQ0vWbVt9T\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yahoo!<\/a> about the impact increased heat in schools can have on students\u2019 cognitive function.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Le lac de l\u2019anthropoc\u00e8ne:<\/strong> Professor of Earth Sciences Francine McCarthy spoke to <a href=\"https:\/\/ici.radio-canada.ca\/tele\/decouverte\/site\/segments\/reportage\/454943\/anthropocene-lac-crawford-geologie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Radio Canada\u2019s D\u00e9couverte<\/a> program (in French) about her research at Crawford Lake, which proposes the start of a new epoch in geologic time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brock\u2019s Co-op, Career and Experiential Education department helps students navigate journey from campus to real life:<\/strong> Co-op, Career and Experiential Education (CCEE) director Cara Krezek spoke to the <a href=\"https:\/\/niagaraindependent.ca\/brocks-co-op-career-and-experiential-education-department-helps-students-navigate-journey-from-campus-to-real-life\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Niagara Independent<\/a> about the growth of CCEE at the University as well as new initiatives her team is preparing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In recent media appearances, Brock experts discussed baseball radio broadcasts, negotiations between the Ontario government and teachers, an increase in mosquito activity, the impact increased heat has on children in schools and ongoing research related to geologic time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":87915,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,13793,7,6,41,38],"tags":[6158,5050,7488,348,522,1356,5662,4358,8568,2998],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87914"}],"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=87914"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87934,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87914\/revisions\/87934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}