Weekly Quiz: Canada Goose’s China Play, Public Servants in Peril, and the Impending Return of Pierre Poilievre

1 2 const title = "Canada Goose’s China Play, Public Servants in Peril, and the Impending Return of Pierre Poilievre"; const date = "June 14, 2025"; const data = [ { image: "https://walrus-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/img/WAL_Web-Shah-Alberta_JUN25_005-1536x1024.jpg", title: "Alberta Is Struggling to Keep Its Nurses and Teachers", url: "https://thewalrus.ca/alberta-is-struggling-to-keep-its-nurses-and-teachers/", question: "Alberta is the least funded school jurisdiction in Canada, with limited resources to support the educational needs of its growing classrooms. In 2023, premier Danielle Smith proposed one solution aimed at fixing the province’s teacher shortage. What did Smith propose?", options: [ "Raising teachers’ wages to match inflation rates", "A teaching certificate meant to fast-track new teachers into positions", "Capping student enrolment to mitigate classroom overcrowding", "A pilot program focusing on mental health support for teachers experiencing burnout", ], answer: "A teaching certificate meant to fast-track new teachers into positions", correct: "Smith asked the education minister to create a teaching certificate that would fast-track people into teaching positions in junior high and high schools. But Jason Schilling, president of the Alberta Teachers’ Association, says that won’t help either. “If you reduce the credentialing [needed] to become a teacher, those teachers won’t be prepared well enough to handle the complex pressures that are in our classrooms right now, and they’ll leave as well. So you end up creating a revolving door of teachers in and out of schools,” he says. The real solution is compensation, writes journalist Kena Shah. Public records containing wage comparisons shared in emails obtained by The Walrus show that while Alberta has lower taxes, the before- and after-tax salaries in Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Ontario aren’t very different. For secondary school teachers, Alberta’s before-tax pay is the lowest, but after-tax pay is still on a par with other provinces.", incorrect: "Smith asked the education minister to create a teaching certificate that would fast-track people into teaching positions in junior high and high schools. But Jason Schilling, president of the Alberta Teachers’ Association, says that won’t help either. “If you reduce the credentialing [needed] to become a teacher, those teachers won’t be prepared well enough to handle the complex pressures that are in our classrooms right now, and they’ll leave as well. So you end up creating a revolving door of teachers in and out of schools,” he says. The real solution is compensation, writes journalist Kena Shah. Public records containing wage comparisons shared in emails obtained by The Walrus show that while Alberta has lower taxes, the before- and after-tax salaries in Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Ontario aren’t very different. For secondary school teachers, Alberta’s before-tax pay is the lowest, but after-tax pay is still on a par with other provinces.", }, { title: "Canada Goose Built a Luxury Empire by Betting Big on China", url: "https://thewalrus.ca/canada-goose-built-a-luxury-empire-by-betting-big-on-china/", question: "Despite geopolitics, the pandemic, and local pushback, Canada Goose has managed to build a luxury empire in China by expertly tailoring its designs, marketing, and image to consumer tastes. What trend did the company’s team leverage in order to grow its sales to $1.5 million in the first quarter of 2024?", options: [ "A collaboration with Labubu, a collectible toy by Hong Kong artist Kasing Lung", "A Mandarin-language podcast about Arctic exploration", "Livestreaming sessions with influencers and brand representatives", "In-store “Cold Rooms” meant to simulate extreme weather conditions for customers trying on items", ], answer: "Livestreaming sessions with influencers and brand representatives", correct: "Canada Goose’s China team developed an e-commerce strategy aimed at urban consumers, leveraging one of the country’s most popular retail trends: livestreaming. This approach, reminiscent of the TV shopping channels of the 1980s and ’90s, allows viewers to interact in real time with influencers or brand representatives as they showcase products. On Douyin, China’s version of TikTok, Canada Goose partnered with nearly 150 “KOLs”—key opinion leaders—in the first quarter of 2024 to host livestreams that helped boost brand awareness and grew sales by up to $1.5 million, according to analysis from China Skinny, a Shanghai-based market research firm. Douyin users flocked to videos posted by KOLs (some of whom weren’t officially working with the brand) that break down distinct characteristics of Canada Goose parkas, such as the coyote fur hood trim.", incorrect: "Canada Goose’s China team developed an e-commerce strategy aimed at urban consumers, leveraging one of the country’s most popular retail trends: livestreaming. This approach, reminiscent of the TV shopping channels of the 1980s and ’90s, allows viewers to interact in real time with influencers or brand representatives as they showcase products. On Douyin, China’s version of TikTok, Canada Goose partnered with nearly 150 “KOLs”—key opinion leaders—in the first quarter of 2024 to host livestreams that helped boost brand awareness and grew sales by up to $1.5 million, according to analysis from China Skinny, a Shanghai-based market research firm. Douyin users flocked to videos posted by KOLs (some of whom weren’t officially working with the brand) that break down distinct characteristics of Canada Goose parkas, such as the coyote fur hood trim.", }, { image: "https://walrus-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/img/WEB_MarriageStories_JUN25.jpg", title: "Are Women Allowed to Be Happy in Their Marriages?", url: "https://thewalrus.ca/are-women-allowed-to-be-happy-in-their-marriages/", question: "The Walrus contributing writer Tajja Isen has noticed that books about marriage and divorce often fail to escape society’s narrow ideas of matrimony. What does Isen identify as a common habit authors rely on in the growing divorce memoir genre?", options: [ "Metaphorizing marriage as a story", "Centring the narrative around children as symbolic casualties", "Portraying divorce as a moral failure with clear heroes and villains", "Reducing marriage to a social performance with no personal stakes", ], answer: "Metaphorizing marriage as a story", correct: "Within the divorce memoir genre, metaphorizing marriage as a story has become a habit. This is the Story of a Happy Marriage, proclaims the title of Ann Patchett’s essay collection. To anyone who wants to know what happened when her marriage fell apart, Rachel Cusk writes in Aftermath, “I might ask if they wanted the story or the truth.” She adds, in a dry aside, “Lately I have come to hate stories,” her husband’s being that Cusk “had treated him monstrously.” Maggie Smith’s You Could Make This Place Beautiful turns the metaphor into an entire structural principle. Throughout the book, she breaks the fourth wall with chapter titles like “A Note on Plot” and “A Note on the Author’s Intention.” More than just appearing in the published work about marriage, getting meta has become part of the architecture of how we talk about the institution itself—a rhetorical trap that the marriage (or divorce) memoirist has the curious duty of having to situate themselves relative to.", incorrect: "Within the divorce memoir genre, metaphorizing marriage as a story has become a habit. This is the Story of a Happy Marriage, proclaims the title of Ann Patchett’s essay collection. To anyone who wants to know what happened when her marriage fell apart, Rachel Cusk writes in Aftermath, “I might ask if they wanted the story or the truth.” She adds, in a dry aside, “Lately I have come to hate stories,” her husband’s being that Cusk “had treated him monstrously.” Maggie Smith’s You Could Make This Place Beautiful turns the metaphor into an entire structural principle. Throughout the book, she breaks the fourth wall with chapter titles like “A Note on Plot” and “A Note on the Author’s Intention.” More than just appearing in the published work about marriage, getting meta has become part of the architecture of how we talk about the institution itself—a rhetorical trap that the marriage (or divorce) memoirist has the curious duty of having to situate themselves relative to.", }, { title: "Pierre Poilievre Is Not Backing Down", url: "https://thewalrus.ca/pierre-poilievre-is-not-backing-down/", question: "Not only did Pierre Poilievre lose his chance at becoming prime minister on April 28, he also lost his own seat. But history has proven that a comeback of the magnitude Poilievre needs is not impossible. Which former prime minister lost his seat when he ran for re-election, not once but twice?", options: [ "Arthur Meighen", "William Lyon Mackenzie King", "Lester B. Pearson", "Brian Mulroney", ], answer: "William Lyon Mackenzie King", correct: "Losing his Ottawa seat is likely an inconvenience that Poilievre will soon rectify. The media and Liberals make a big deal about the loss, but it happens. William Lyon Mackenzie King lost his seat when he was re-elected prime minister in 1926 and 1945. Still, Poilievre and his party should take a long look at why the people of Carleton voted him out. Until 2019, constituents saw quite a bit of him. After he won the Tory leadership, he was AWOL. He lived at Stornoway, not in his house in the riding. He held rallies all over Canada but rarely met anyone in Carleton. The next election is there for the taking—will Poilievre change the way he campaigns? And will he change himself?", incorrect: "Losing his Ottawa seat is likely an inconvenience that Poilievre will soon rectify. The media and Liberals make a big deal about the loss, but it happens. William Lyon Mackenzie King lost his seat when he was re-elected prime minister in 1926 and 1945. Still, Poilievre and his party should take a long look at why the people of Carleton voted him out. Until 2019, constituents saw quite a bit of him. After he won the Tory leadership, he was AWOL. He lived at Stornoway, not in his house in the riding. He held rallies all over Canada but rarely met anyone in Carleton. The next election is there for the taking—will Poilievre change the way he campaigns? And will he change himself?", }, ]; The post Weekly Quiz: Canada Goose’s China Play, Public Servants in Peril, and the Impending Return of Pierre Poilievre first appeared on The Walrus.