Weekly Quiz: Harm Reduction, Space Surveillance, and Powerful Portraiture

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const title = "Weekly Quiz: Harm Reduction, Space Surveillance, and Powerful Portraiture"; const date = "February 07, 2026"; const data = [ { image: "https://walrus-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/img/WEB_SuppervisedConsumptionSite_FEB26-1536x1024.jpg", title: "Inside the North’s Only Line of Defence Against the Opioid Crisis", url: "https://thewalrus.ca/inside-the-only-supervised-consumption-site-in-canadas-north/", question: "The supervised consumption site managed by Blood Ties Four Directions Centre in Whitehorse experienced a serious security incident in April 2025 that disrupted operations and had lasting effects on staffing. What proportion of Blood Ties staff resigned following the incident?", options: [ "One-quarter of the staff", "One-third of the staff", "Half of the staff", "Two-thirds of the staff", ], answer: "One-third of the staff", correct: "At first, the supervised consumption site was open five days a week, with about 900 visits a month. When it expanded to seven days in 2024, visits increased threefold. In April 2025, Yukon Royal Canadian Mounted Police were called after a report of a gun. The building was evacuated, two women were arrested, and police determined the weapon was a replica. The fallout was immediate: one-third of the staff resigned, and the site scaled back to five days.", incorrect: "At first, the supervised consumption site was open five days a week, with about 900 visits a month. When it expanded to seven days in 2024, visits increased threefold. In April 2025, Yukon Royal Canadian Mounted Police were called after a report of a gun. The building was evacuated, two women were arrested, and police determined the weapon was a replica. The fallout was immediate: one-third of the staff resigned, and the site scaled back to five days.", }, { title: "Canada Is Building a Surveillance Network in Space", url: "https://thewalrus.ca/canada-is-building-a-surveillance-network-in-space/", question: "Geostationary orbit represents some of the most valuable real estate in space, hosting critical infrastructure for weather monitoring, communications, and defence. Satellites in this orbital band maintain a fixed position relative to Earth’s surface, making them ideal for continuous coverage of specific regions. At what altitude do geostationary satellites orbit?", options: [ "20,000 kilometres", "35,000 kilometres", "42,000 kilometres", "50,000 kilometres", ], answer: "35,000 kilometres", correct: "Canadian aerospace company ThothX is focused on the most valuable real estate in space: geostationary orbit, or GEO. Roughly 35,000 kilometres up, the satellites move in lockstep with the planet, permanently perched over and watching a specific patch of the world. GEO is where the action is. It hosts weather monitoring, global television, missile warning, and electronic eavesdropping. The occupants of this zone are the largest, most expensive satellites ever built. Scientist and entrepreneur Brendan Quine calls them the “Lamborghinis of the space world.”", incorrect: "Canadian aerospace company ThothX is focused on the most valuable real estate in space: geostationary orbit, or GEO. Roughly 35,000 kilometres up, the satellites move in lockstep with the planet, permanently perched over and watching a specific patch of the world. GEO is where the action is. It hosts weather monitoring, global television, missile warning, and electronic eavesdropping. The occupants of this zone are the largest, most expensive satellites ever built. Scientist and entrepreneur Brendan Quine calls them the “Lamborghinis of the space world.”", }, { image: "https://walrus-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/img/Web_FoodBanksWereMeanttobeTemporary_Feb26_01-1536x1024.jpg", title: "They Work Full-Time. They Have Degrees. They’re Still Going Hungry", url: "https://thewalrus.ca/more-students-families-and-seniors-are-turning-to-food-banks-in-quebec/", question: "Food banks across Quebec are struggling to meet demand. Organizations within the Food Banks of Quebec network are reporting critical supply challenges that affect their ability to serve communities. What percentage of food bank organizations in Quebec are reporting food shortages?", options: [ "Nearly 50 percent", "Approximately 60 percent", "Nearly 70 percent", "Over 80 percent", ], answer: "Nearly 70 percent", correct: "Overwhelmed, food banks have started reducing the size of baskets or even implementing waiting lists. “It’s a real challenge because we weren’t built to do this work at this level and for this number of people,” says Véronique Beaulieu-Fowler, director of philanthropy at Food Banks of Quebec. Unsurprisingly, nearly 70 percent of organizations are reporting food shortages.", incorrect: "Overwhelmed, food banks have started reducing the size of baskets or even implementing waiting lists. “It’s a real challenge because we weren’t built to do this work at this level and for this number of people,” says Véronique Beaulieu-Fowler, director of philanthropy at Food Banks of Quebec. Unsurprisingly, nearly 70 percent of organizations are reporting food shortages.", }, { title: "How Portraiture Gives Us Permission to Stare", url: "https://thewalrus.ca/how-portraiture-gives-us-permission-to-stare/", question: "In his story “How Portraiture Gives Us Permission to Stare,” writer Connor Garel explores how the Kingston Prize celebrates artists who invite viewers to deeply observe human subjects through portraiture, an act that transforms staring from intrusion into contemplation. Who won the 2025 Kingston Prize?", options: [ "Ian Shatilla", "Andrew Valko", "Opeyemi Olukotun", "Louise Kermode", ], answer: "Louise Kermode", correct: "The top prize for 2025 went to the Waterloo-based painter Louise Kermode’s Madonna in a Tulip Chair. At first, it appears to be an arresting, almost nineteenth-century realist portrait of an ordinary elderly woman—the kind of painting that, by virtue of its detail (the hands are particularly breathtaking), could never be recreated with AI. Madonna, here, is in fact Donna Meaney, who, in her youth, was often depicted nude or semi-nude by the detached, erotic gaze of Christopher Pratt and, later, under the more probing, ambivalent gaze of his wife, Mary. Biographers have claimed that Meaney became Christopher’s mistress, and so Mary’s controversial Girl in Wicker Chair—the nude that Kermode’s portrait echoes and which Mary adapted from a photograph made by her husband—takes on a stranger valence: the wife staring at the mistress staring at her husband.", incorrect: "The top prize for 2025 went to the Waterloo-based painter Louise Kermode’s Madonna in a Tulip Chair. At first, it appears to be an arresting, almost nineteenth-century realist portrait of an ordinary elderly woman—the kind of painting that, by virtue of its detail (the hands are particularly breathtaking), could never be recreated with AI. Madonna, here, is in fact Donna Meaney, who, in her youth, was often depicted nude or semi-nude by the detached, erotic gaze of Christopher Pratt and, later, under the more probing, ambivalent gaze of his wife, Mary. Biographers have claimed that Meaney became Christopher’s mistress, and so Mary’s controversial Girl in Wicker Chair—the nude that Kermode’s portrait echoes and which Mary adapted from a photograph made by her husband—takes on a stranger valence: the wife staring at the mistress staring at her husband.", }, ];