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

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const title = "Funding Splits, Food Politics, and Federal Fault Lines"; const date = "October 11, 2025"; const data = [ { 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 challenges in the Supreme Court", correct: "“It’s a fast track into the Supreme Court,” says Gazan, who belongs to the Wood Mountain Lakota Nation. “We know that there are numerous Supreme Court rulings against projects and any sort of development when they have failed in their constitutional obligation to obtain full consent from Indigenous peoples.” Indeed, days before the First Nations Major Projects Summit this July, nine First Nations in Ontario sought court-ordered injunctions that would prevent the federal and provincial governments from using laws to speed up infrastructure projects.", incorrect: "“It’s a fast track into the Supreme Court,” says Gazan, who belongs to the Wood Mountain Lakota Nation. “We know that there are numerous Supreme Court rulings against projects and any sort of development when they have failed in their constitutional obligation to obtain full consent from Indigenous peoples.” Indeed, days before the First Nations Major Projects Summit this July, nine First Nations in Ontario sought court-ordered injunctions that would prevent the federal and provincial governments from using laws to speed up infrastructure projects.", }, { title: "How Alberta Became the Epicentre of Canada’s Measles Outbreak", url: "https://thewalrus.ca/how-alberta-became-the-epicentre-of-canadas-measles-outbreak/", question: "The re-emergence of measles in Alberta is sobering, but it was not long ago that a strong majority of people in Canada were immune. In what year did Canada declare measles eliminated?", options: [ "1978", "1988", "1998", "2008", ], answer: "1998", correct: "Canada authorized a live measles vaccine in 1963 and rolled out a universal immunization program in 1983. By 1998, vaccination rates were already high enough that Canada declared measles eliminated, meaning the virus could still be brought in from abroad but no longer spread within our borders. That happened because a strong majority of people here were immune: when more than 85 percent of people are vaccinated, community-level outbreaks can typically be controlled; if more than 95 percent are vaccinated, few if any measles outbreaks will happen at all.", incorrect: "Canada authorized a live measles vaccine in 1963 and rolled out a universal immunization program in 1983. By 1998, vaccination rates were already high enough that Canada declared measles eliminated, meaning the virus could still be brought in from abroad but no longer spread within our borders. That happened because a strong majority of people here were immune: when more than 85 percent of people are vaccinated, community-level outbreaks can typically be controlled; if more than 95 percent are vaccinated, few if any measles outbreaks will happen at all.", }, { image: "https://walrus-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/img/Caulfield_UltraProcessedFoods_1800.jpg", title: "Sure, Ultra-Processed Foods Are Bad. But How Does That Help Anyone?", url: "https://thewalrus.ca/sure-ultra-processed-foods-are-bad-but-how-does-that-help-anyone/", question: "While ultra-processed foods, or UPFs, are often blamed for poor health outcomes, their effects depend on more than just what’s presented on a plate. According to recent Canadian research, who consumes the most UPFs?", 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 education and income", correct: "Studies, including recent research from Canada, have found that UPFs are most heavily consumed by those with lower education and income. Socioeconomic circumstances are strongly correlated with health and thus an important complicating factor (i.e., it isn’t the food that’s making people sick; it’s the poverty). And because UPFs tend to be the most affordable and widely available options, any policy that cracks down on them risks hitting the poorest families hardest.", incorrect: "Studies, including recent research from Canada, have found that UPFs are most heavily consumed by those with lower education and income. Socioeconomic circumstances are strongly correlated with health and thus an important complicating factor (i.e., it isn’t the food that’s making people sick; it’s the poverty). And because UPFs tend to be the most affordable and widely available options, any policy that cracks down on them risks hitting the poorest families hardest.", }, { 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/", question: "Public arts funding in Canada has evolved dramatically since the Canada Council for the Arts was first established. Since 2017, what has been the approximate funding split 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 split about 80–20 in favour of organizations. However one may feel about the fairness of that particular set-up—and the Canada Council has since worked to change it: since 2017, it’s been much closer to a 55–45 split in favour of the big organizations—it did solidify a homegrown industry, even if it did not change the majority of Canadians’ level of excitement about explicitly Canadian content.", incorrect: "Until the turn of the millennium, arts funding in Canada was split about 80–20 in favour of organizations. However one may feel about the fairness of that particular set-up—and the Canada Council has since worked to change it: since 2017, it’s been much closer to a 55–45 split in favour of the big organizations—it did solidify a homegrown industry, even if it did not change the majority of Canadians’ level of excitement about explicitly Canadian content.", }, ];