{"id":91379,"date":"2024-03-08T13:01:30","date_gmt":"2024-03-08T18:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=91379"},"modified":"2024-03-08T16:27:28","modified_gmt":"2024-03-08T21:27:28","slug":"in-the-news-an-unconventional-boxing-event-empowering-women-entrepreneurs-and-mapping-niagaras-economic-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2024\/03\/in-the-news-an-unconventional-boxing-event-empowering-women-entrepreneurs-and-mapping-niagaras-economic-history\/","title":{"rendered":"IN THE NEWS: An unconventional boxing event, empowering women entrepreneurs and mapping Niagara\u2019s economic history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In recent media appearances, Brock experts discussed an unconventional boxing event, mapping Niagara\u2019s economic history, empowering women entrepreneurs, new labour legislation and a conference for women leaders.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jake Paul to fight Mike Tyson in live Netflix boxing event:<\/strong> Assistant Professor of Sport Management Taylor McKee spoke to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chch.com\/jake-paul-to-fight-mike-tyson-in-live-netflix-boxing-event\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CHCH<\/a> about an upcoming boxing match between a social media personality and an aging former heavyweight champion.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Punching above its weight: Water systems, land, escarpment \u2018unmistakably\u2019 have made Niagara what is:<\/strong> Professor of Political Science and Director of Brock University\u2019s Niagara Community Observatory Charles Conteh spoke to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stcatharinesstandard.ca\/news\/niagara-region\/punching-above-its-weight-water-systems-land-escarpment-unmistakably-have-made-niagara-what-is\/article_87de4400-de00-5354-82f5-019d705f122c.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>St. Catharines Standard<\/em><\/a> about a recent workshop that invited experts to weigh in on a research project mapping the economic history of Niagara.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brock University student research focuses on women-owned small business in downtown St. Catharines:<\/strong>\u00a0Brock University Concurrent Teacher Education student Daria Do spoke to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stcatharinesstandard.ca\/business\/niagara-region\/brock-university-student-research-focuses-on-women-owned-small-business-in-downtown-st-catharines\/article_1ff8149e-ffe0-5c2a-84a2-3c65bd12e09e.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>St. Catharines Standard<\/em><\/a> about presenting her undergraduate thesis research on local women entrepreneurs to the Niagara business community.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8216;Bad news for Canada&#8217;: Businesses decry &#8216;anti-scab&#8217; bill \u2014 but unions say not so fast:<\/strong> Professor of Labour Studies Larry Savage spoke to the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/business\/bad-news-for-canada-businesses-decry-anti-scab-bill-but-unions-say-not-so-fast\/article_35a47fa0-da40-11ee-92c2-b373299789d0.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Toronto Star<\/a><\/em> about new legislation that will empower workers at the bargaining table.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Inspiring, resiliency, mentoring, sharing among topics at sold-out Women&#8217;s Day event: <\/strong>Brock University President Lesley Rigg\u2019s involvement in a conference for women leaders and allies was the subject of an article from <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.burlingtontoday.com\/local-news\/inspiring-resiliency-mentoring-sharing-among-topics-at-sold-out-womens-day-event-8385272\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Burlington Today.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In recent media appearances, Brock experts discussed an unconventional boxing event, mapping Niagara\u2019s economic history, empowering women entrepreneurs, new labour legislation and a conference for women leaders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":91380,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,40,7,6,38],"tags":[3095,13264,7488,98,522,4358,11881,63,10657],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91379"}],"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=91379"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91382,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91379\/revisions\/91382"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}