Weekly Quiz: Funding Splits, Food Politics, and Federal Fault Lines

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image: “https://walrus-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/img/WEB_BillC5_OCT25.jpeg”,
title: ““A Subjugation”: First Nations Chiefs Blast Carney’s Nation-Building Scheme”,
url: “https://thewalrus.ca/a-subjugation-first-nations-chiefs-blast-carneys-nation-building-scheme/”,
question: “Critics of Ottawa’s Bill C-5 say it prioritizes speed over constitutional duty when it comes to Indigenous consent. What does Leah Gazan, member of Parliament for Winnipeg Centre, warn is a risk of deprioritizing consultation with Indigenous peoples?”,
options: [
“An erosion of the public’s trust in government”,
“A lack of environmental oversight”,
“Significant delays in provincial permitting”,
“Legal challenges in the Supreme Court”,
]answer: Legal problems in the Supreme Court, correct: “It's a fast track to the Supreme Court,” says Ghazan, who is a member of the Wood Mountain Lakota Tribe. “We know there are many Supreme Court rulings against projects and any kind of development where they have failed in their constitutional duty to obtain the full consent of First Nations.” Indeed, in the days leading up to the Major Indigenous Projects Summit this past July, nine Ontario First Nations sought court-ordered injunctions that would prevent federal and provincial governments from using laws to speed up infrastructure projects. False: “It's a fast track to the Supreme Court,” says Ghazan, who is a member of the Wood Mountain Lakota Nation. “We know there are numerous Supreme Court rulings against projects and development of any kind where they have failed to meet their constitutional obligation to obtain the full consent of First Nations.” Indeed, just days before the Major Indigenous Projects Summit this past July, nine Ontario First Nations sought court-ordered injunctions that would prevent federal and provincial governments from using laws to speed up infrastructure projects.”, }, { title: “How Alberta became the epicenter of Canada's measles outbreak,” url: “https://thewalrus.ca/how-alberta-became-the-epicentre-of-canadas-measles-outbreak/”, question: “The resurgence of measles in Alberta is sobering, but not long ago the vast majority of people in Canada were immune. In what year did Canada announce elimination? measles?”, options: [
“1978”,
“1988”,
“1998”,
“2008”,
]answer: “1998”, correct: “Canada authorized live measles vaccine in 1963 and launched a universal immunization program in 1983. By 1998, vaccination rates were so high that Canada declared measles eliminated, meaning the virus could still be imported from abroad but would no longer spread within our borders. This happened because the vast majority of people here were immune: when more than 85 percent of people are vaccinated, community-level outbreaks can usually be controlled; if more than 95 percent are vaccinated, then measles outbreaks will not occur, if they occur at all.”, incorrect: “Canada authorized the use of live measles vaccine in 1963 and launched a universal immunization program in 1983. By 1998, vaccination rates were high enough that Canada declared measles eliminated, meaning the virus could still be imported from abroad but was no longer spreading within our borders. This happened because the vast majority of people here were immune: when more than 85 percent of people are vaccinated, community outbreaks can usually be controlled; if more than 95 percent are vaccinated, then measles outbreaks will not occur at all, if they occur at all.”, }, { image: “https://walrus-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/img/Caulfield_UltraProcessedFoods_1800.jpg”, title: “Of course, Ultra-processed foods are harmful. But how will this help anyone?”, url: “https://thewalrus.ca/sure-ultra-processed-foods-are-bad-but-how-does-that-help-anyone/”, question: “Although ultra-processed foods, or UPF, are often accused of being bad health consequences, their impact depends not only on what is presented on the plate. According to a recent Canadian study, “Who consumes the most UPF?”, options: [
“People with lower education and income”,
“People who work in the food service industry”,
“People who have young children”,
“People who live in rural areas”,
]answer: “People with lower levels of education and income”, correct: “Studies, including recent studies in Canada, have shown that UPF is consumed most heavily by people with lower education and income. Socioeconomic circumstances are highly correlated with health and are thus an important complicating factor (i.e., people get sick not from food, but from poverty). the poorest families have the hardest time.”, incorrect: “Research, including recent research in Canada, has shown that UPF is consumed most heavily by people with lower education and income. Socioeconomic circumstances are closely correlated with health and are thus an important complicating factor (i.e., people get sick not from food, but from poverty). And since UPFs tend to be the most affordable and widely available options, any policy targeting them risks hitting the poorest. families have the hardest time.”, }, { title: “How I managed to write a book without going (too) broke”, url: “https://thewalrus.ca/how-i-managed-to-write-a-book-without-going-too-broke/”, questions: “Public arts funding in Canada has changed dramatically since the Canada Council for the Arts was first created. What has been the approximate distribution of funding since 2017? between organizations and individual artists?”, options: [
“75–25”,
“60–40”,
“55–45”,
“50–50″,
]answer: “55-45”, correct: “Until the turn of the millennium, arts funding in Canada was allocated approximately 80-20 to organizations. However, one can question the fairness of this particular scheme – and the Canada Council has since worked to change it: since 2017 it has been much closer to a 55-45 split in favor of large organizations – this has indeed strengthened the domestic industry, even if it has not changed the majority. level of Canadians' excitement about distinctly Canadian content.”, incorrect: “Before the turn of the millennium, arts funding in Canada was split roughly 80-20 in favor of organizations. As much as some may question the fairness of this particular scheme (and the Canada Council has since worked to change it: since 2017, the split has become much closer to a 55-45 split in favor of large organizations), it did strengthen the domestic industry, even if it did not change the majority of Canadians' level of excitement about distinctly Canadian content.”, }, ];

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