{"id":9084,"date":"2011-03-30T12:32:45","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T17:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=9084"},"modified":"2018-12-20T13:09:07","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T18:09:07","slug":"lecture-looks-at-how-canadians-and-americans-are-becoming-alike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2011\/03\/lecture-looks-at-how-canadians-and-americans-are-becoming-alike\/","title":{"rendered":"Lecture looks at how Canadians and Americans are becoming alike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A renowned author and journalist will visit Brock on Thursday to present a <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/humanities\/departments-and-centres\/centre-for-canadian-studies\" target=\"_blank\">Canadian Studies<\/a> guest lecture on how Canadians and Americans are becoming more alike.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9085\" title=\"Andrew Cohen\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/andrew_cohen.jpg\" alt=\"Andrew Cohen\" width=\"220\" height=\"150\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ottawacitizen.com\/columnists\/Andrew_Cohen.html\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew Cohen<\/a>, professor of journalism and international affairs at Carleton University, will speak to students and guests on March 31 from 2 to 3 p.m. in Thistle 325.<\/p>\n<p>His talk is entitled, \u201cOur Converging Continental Character: How Canadians and Americans are Becoming More Alike.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The event is free, everyone is welcome to attend and no tickets are required.<\/p>\n<p>Cohen is author of the best-selling book <em>While Canada Slept: How We Lost Our Place in the World<\/em> and more recently <em>Extraordinary Canadians: Lester B. Pearson<\/em>. He was also Washington correspondent at the <em>Globe and Mail<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In his 30-year career, he also worked at home and abroad for <em>The Ottawa Citizen<\/em>, <em>United Press International<\/em>, <em>Time<\/em>, <em>The Financial Post<\/em>, <em>Saturday Night<\/em> and <em>The Globe and Mail<\/em>, where he was a foreign correspondent in Washington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A renowned author and journalist will visit Brock on Thursday to present a Canadian Studies guest lecture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9085,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[241,192,59,30],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9084"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9084"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9092,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9084\/revisions\/9092"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}