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const title = “Foreign workers, menacing cyber attacks and the fall of Ssense”; const date = “October 18, 2025”; constant data = [
{
image: “https://walrus-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/img/WEB_TFWP_OCT25-1536×1024.jpg”,
title: “How the Right Is Turning Youth Unemployment into Outrage over Foreign Workers”,
url: “https://thewalrus.ca/a-coder-built-a-job-posting-website-conservatives-turned-it-into-a-weapon-against-foreign-workers/”,
question: “The Conservative party is pinning Canada’s high levels of youth unemployment on the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP). Party leader Pierre Poilievre claims that Mark Carney and his government have issued 105,000 new TFW permits in the first six months of 2025, but this figure is misleading. What is the actual number of new TFWs approved to enter Canada during that period?”,
options: [
“15,800”,
“33,722”,
“55,000”,
“88,432”,
]answer: “33,722”, correct: “On September 3, the Conservative Party issued a press release announcing its goal to end TFWP, accusing the Liberals of supporting a monster that is devouring the future of Canadian youth. “The Carney government issued 105,000 new temporary work permits to foreign workers in the first six months of 2025 alone,” Poilievre said in a press release. Poilievre didn't mention the 105,000 figure also includes permit renewals and new work permits issued to people already in Canada. The actual number of new TFWs approved to enter Canada in the first six months of 2025 was 33,722. Other right-wing leaders have since backed Poilievre, while the Liberals are playing defense – and, like the 1994 Ottawa Senators, they are doing it poorly. press release announcing their goal to end TFWP, accusing the Liberals of supporting a monster that is devouring the future of Canadian youth. “In the first six months of 2025 alone, the Carney government issued 105,000 new temporary work permits to foreign workers,” Poilievre said in a release. What Poilievre didn't mention is that the 105,000 figure also includes permit renewals and new work permits issued to people already in Canada. the actual number of new TFWs approved to enter Canada in the first six months of 2025 was 33,722. Other leaders on the right have since backed Poilievre, while the Liberals are playing on the defensive—and, like the 1994 Ottawa Senators, they're doing a poor job of it.”, }, { title: “It was Gen Z's favorite online store—until it wasn't. Inside the Ssense Fiasco”, url: “https://thewalrus.ca/inside-the-ssense-fiasco/”, question: “Canadian multi-brand online retailer Ssense built their business around Gen Z, using a strategy that earned them a $4.1 billion valuation dollars in 2021. Four years later, the company was on the verge of filing for bankruptcy protection. What lawsuit prompted this decision?”, options: [
“Employees that had been laid off filed a class-action lawsuit”,
“Several key investors withdrew their stakes in the company”,
“A creditor moved to sell the company without its consent”,
“A supplier dispute froze the company’s assets”,
]answer: “The lender decided to sell the company without its consent,” correct: “In late August, it emerged that Ssense was preparing to file for bankruptcy protection after the lender decided to sell the company without its consent, triggering what the firm called an “immediate liquidity crisis.” By September, the company was granted a reprieve when the Quebec Superior Court ruled that Ssense could continue to operate during the restructuring. This gives the company some hope – that is, they will be able to look at investment opportunities to secure the future of this property. “We now have the time, resources and structure to begin the process of rebuilding a stronger Ssense,” CEO and founder Rami Atallah said in a statement. “False: “It was revealed in late August that Ssense was preparing to file for bankruptcy protection after a lender decided to sell the company without its consent, triggering what the firm called an “immediate liquidity crisis.” By September, the company was granted a reprieve when the Quebec Superior Court ruled that Ssense could continue to operate during the restructuring. This gives the company some hope – that is, they will be able to look at investment opportunities to secure the future of this property. “We now have the time, resources and structure to begin the process of rebuilding a stronger Ssense,” CEO and founder Rami Atallah said in a statement.”, }, { image: “https://walrus-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/img/Chaudary_Ransomware_1800.jpg”, title: “The cyber attack that stole 280,000 personal data and showed how easily we can be deceived”, URL: “https://thewalrus.ca/the-cyberattack-that-showed-how-easily-we-can-be-duped/” question: “Ransomware has exploded over the past five years, fueled by pandemic-related security concerns and advances in artificial intelligence. B In 2019, organizing the attack took about sixty days. How long does it take today?”, options: [
“Four days”,
“Nine days”,
“Thirteen days”,
“Twenty days”,
]answer: “Four days”, correct: “Today’s malware is smarter, faster, and harder to detect. Ali Ghorbani, director of the Canadian Cyber Security Institute at the University of New Brunswick, says artificial intelligence has given hackers a new advantage. They can now produce countless variations of the same attack. It also makes phishing attacks more convincing with personalized emails, realistic voice recordings and deepfake videos. In one case, an employee of a British engineering firm was tricked into transferring US$25 million after a video call with AI-generated “executives.” All this has changed the rules of working with ransomware. In 2019, preparations for the attack took about sixty days. Today only four are required. “The attacks have gotten bigger,” says Ghorbani. “And the ransoms have gotten bigger, too.”, incorrect: “Today’s malware is smarter, faster, and harder to detect. Ali Ghorbani, director of the University of New Brunswick's Canadian Cyber Security Institute, says artificial intelligence has given hackers a new advantage. They can now produce countless variations of the same attack. It also makes phishing scams more convincing with personalized emails, realistic voice recordings and deepfake videos. In one case, an employee of a British engineering firm was tricked into transferring US$25 million after a video call with AI-generated “executives.” All this has changed the rules of working with ransomware. In 2019, preparations for the attack took about sixty days. Today only four are required. “The attacks have gotten bigger,” says Ghorbani. “And the ransoms are bigger, too.”, }, { title: “Churchill Falls could make Newfoundland and Labrador rich—or ruin it again,” url: “https://thewalrus.ca/churchill-falls-could-make-newfoundland-rich-or-break-it-again/”, question: “As Newfoundland and Labrador debates the future of Churchill Falls, First Nations communities express serious concerns that the hydropower project increases the risk of methylmercury contamination. What is the main reason why the use of methylmercury is being considered? so dangerous?”, options: [
“It evaporates easily into the atmosphere.”,
“It bioaccumulates up the food chain.”,
“It is difficult to properly filter out of drinking water.”,
“It creates harmful acids when it interacts with oxygen.”,
]answer: “It bioaccumulates in the food chain.”, correct: “North and west of Churchill Falls is Nunatsiavut, the traditional territory of the Labrador Inuit. The Nunatsiavut government is concerned about the environmental consequences of further hydroelectric development, and President Johannes Lampe vows to hold the government accountable to protecting Inuit rights and lands. Construction of the Churchill Falls project in the 1960s was flooded. a tract of land in central Labrador larger than Prince Edward Island. Scientific studies have shown that Indigenous communities in Labrador have been affected by methylmercury associated with Churchill Falls since the early 1970s. Contamination can occur if naturally occurring mercury in organic matter is converted to the highly toxic methylmercury when land is flooded for hydroelectric projects. Methylmercury bioaccumulates along the food chain, including in food sources that indigenous communities depend on, such as wild-caught fish.”, incorrect: “North and west of Churchill Falls is Nunatsiavut, the traditional territory of the Labrador Inuit. The Nunatsiavut government is concerned about the environmental impact of further hydroelectric development, and President Johannes Lampe vows to hold the government accountable to protecting Inuit rights and lands. Churchill Falls Project In the 1960s, an area larger than Prince Edward Island was flooded in central Labrador. Scientific studies have shown that Indigenous communities in Labrador have been affected by methylmercury associated with Churchill Falls since the early 1970s. Contamination can occur if naturally occurring mercury in organic matter is converted to the highly toxic methylmercury when land is flooded for hydroelectric projects. Methylmercury bioaccumulates. food chain, including food sources on which indigenous communities depend, such as wild-caught fish.”, }, ];
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