Weekly Quiz: AI Ambitions, Doctor Deficits, and Foreign Interference Fears

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const title = "Weekly Quiz: AI Ambitions, Doctor Deficits, and Foreign Interference Fears"; const date = "November 22, 2025"; const data = [ { image: "https://walrus-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/img/WEB_Sobowale-Cohere_Nov25_006.jpg", title: "Cohere Is Canada’s Biggest AI Hope. Why Is It So American?", url: "https://thewalrus.ca/cohere-is-canadas-biggest-ai-hope-why-is-it-so-american/", question: "Canada has pinned part of its tech future on Cohere, a fast-growing AI firm backed by major federal investment, but not all of its partnerships have been celebrated. Which controversial US data analytics company does Cohere collaborate with?", options: [ "SpaceX", "Palantir", "Oracle", "Clearview AI", ], answer: "Palantir", correct: "Cohere has a relationship with Palantir, a US multi-billion-dollar data analytics company with a history of partnering with US military and intelligence agencies. The company has been criticized for, among other things, creating a program to help the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) identify personal information to target immigrants for deportation. In 2018, more than 200 Palantir employees signed a petition asking for the ICE program to be suspended but were unsuccessful. Palantir signed another $30 million contract this year to track people who overstay their visas or leave voluntarily.", incorrect: "Cohere has a relationship with Palantir, a US multi-billion-dollar data analytics company with a history of partnering with US military and intelligence agencies. The company has been criticized for, among other things, creating a program to help the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) identify personal information to target immigrants for deportation. In 2018, more than 200 Palantir employees signed a petition asking for the ICE program to be suspended but were unsuccessful. Palantir signed another $30 million contract this year to track people who overstay their visas or leave voluntarily.", }, { title: "Quebec’s New Health Care Law Sparks Province-Wide Clash with Doctors", url: "https://thewalrus.ca/quebecs-new-health-care-law-sparks-province-wide-clash-with-doctors/", question: "In 2018, one of the Coalition Avenir Québec’s main electoral promises was that all Quebecers would have access to a doctor. Seven years later, how many Quebecers still still lack a family physician?", options: [ "250,000", "750,000", "1.5 million", "3 million", ], answer: "1.5 million", correct: "Today, roughly 1.5 million Quebecers still remain without a family physician. Premier François Legault now believes he can get every Quebecer access to a health care professional by 2026 (coincidentally a provincial election year). But access to a general practitioner remains difficult, wait lists to see a specialist have almost doubled in the past five years, and surgery wait lists remain high, with nearly 30 percent of operating rooms in the province’s public network closed in 2024 due to staffing shortages.", incorrect: "Today, roughly 1.5 million Quebecers still remain without a family physician. Premier François Legault now believes he can get every Quebecer access to a health care professional by 2026 (coincidentally a provincial election year). But access to a general practitioner remains difficult, wait lists to see a specialist have almost doubled in the past five years, and surgery wait lists remain high, with nearly 30 percent of operating rooms in the province’s public network closed in 2024 due to staffing shortages.", }, { image: "https://walrus-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/img/Web_HowIndiaCanadaTensionsAffectSikhs_Nov25_02.jpg", title: "India Accused This Canadian of a Terror Attack in Ottawa. Did the Incident Even Happen?", url: "https://thewalrus.ca/india-accused-this-canadian-of-a-terror-attack-in-ottawa-did-the-incident-even-happen/", question: "As early as 1987, the Globe and Mail reported on the Canadian Security Intelligence Service identifying Indian diplomats deploying “provocateurs to penetrate Canada’s Sikh communities in Toronto and Vancouver.” What event has the Indian government referenced as motivating their investigations into alleged Sikh extremists in Canada?", options: [ "The 1985 Air India bombing", "The 1984 protest at the Indian Consulate in Vancouver", "The 1988 attempted assassination of journalist Tara Singh Hayer", "The 1982 assault of diplomat P.R. Rao outside the Indian Consulate in Toronto", ], answer: "The 1985 Air India bombing", correct: "India argues that Canada harbours Sikh extremists, pointing to the deadliest terrorist act the country has experienced: the 1985 Air India bombing that killed all 329 people aboard a flight from Canada to India. Two Sikh Canadians were acquitted of all charges related to the bombing, and one was later killed by hitmen. Investigators have alleged that the bombings were planned by Sikh separatists as revenge for the Golden Temple massacre, but the layers of violence and mystery around the bombing have never really been solved.", incorrect: "India argues that Canada harbours Sikh extremists, pointing to the deadliest terrorist act the country has experienced: the 1985 Air India bombing that killed all 329 people aboard a flight from Canada to India. Two Sikh Canadians were acquitted of all charges related to the bombing, and one was later killed by hitmen. Investigators have alleged that the bombings were planned by Sikh separatists as revenge for the Golden Temple massacre, but the layers of violence and mystery around the bombing have never really been solved.", }, { title: "Sovereignty Isn’t Just about Military Strength", url: "https://thewalrus.ca/sovereignty-isnt-just-about-military-strength/", question: "Canada has a strong but forgotten postwar history of effective and influential diplomacy evidenced by its position in intelligence networks like Five Eyes. Which list accurately identifies the other member countries of this critical alliance?", options: [ "Japan, Australia, Greenland, and Mexico", "France, Germany, Italy, and Denmark", "US, UK, France, and Germany", "US, UK, Australia, and New Zealand", ], answer: "US, UK, Australia, and New Zealand", correct: "Canada is a privileged member of the Five Eyes network of countries (US, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand), which shares relevant intelligence gathered by their national intelligence agencies. Canada does not operate a foreign intelligence agency like the US’s Central Intelligence Agency, the UK’s MI6, or similar organizations in many of our NATO allies. In this way, the Five Eyes network is a key intelligence portal for Canada, and our membership is a valuable multilateral asset.", incorrect: "Canada is a privileged member of the Five Eyes network of countries (US, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand), which shares relevant intelligence gathered by their national intelligence agencies. Canada does not operate a foreign intelligence agency like the US’s Central Intelligence Agency, the UK’s MI6, or similar organizations in many of our NATO allies. In this way, the Five Eyes network is a key intelligence portal for Canada, and our membership is a valuable multilateral asset.", }, ];