Weekly Quiz: Separation, Security, and Social Media

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const title = "Weekly Quiz: Separation, Security, and Social Media"; const date = "June 20, 2026"; const data = [ { image: "https://walrus-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/img/pexels-towfiqu-barbhuiya-3440682-11391948-1536x1024.jpg", title: "Canada Moves to Ban Social Media for Under-16s", url: "https://thewalrus.ca/canada-joins-global-fight-to-ban-teens-from-social-media/", question: "Around the world, governments have taken different approaches to online safety. In the United Kingdom, new age-verification requirements for adult content produced an unexpected side effect almost immediately. What was that side effect?", options: [ "Teens migrated from traditional social media to encrypted messaging apps", "Regulators reported a major data breach involving age-verification records", "VPN signups increased by roughly 1,400 percent", "Private browsing sessions increased by roughly 2,600 percent", ], answer: "VPN signups increased by roughly 1,400 percent", correct: "Canada is a late arrival to a broad movement. Australia passed the Online Safety Amendment (Social Media Minimum Age) Act in late 2024. By mid-December 2025, age-restricted platforms had removed access to 4.7 million under-sixteen accounts across Australia. The United Kingdom took a different route through its 2023 Online Safety Act, imposing systemic duties enforced by Ofcom, with mandatory age assurance for adult content in force since July 2025. The British experience carries its own warning: the age verification rollout triggered a 1,400 percent surge in VPN signups, according to Proton VPN data. The UK has since launched a consultation on whether to ban social media for under-sixteens outright.", incorrect: "Canada is a late arrival to a broad movement. Australia passed the Online Safety Amendment (Social Media Minimum Age) Act in late 2024. By mid-December 2025, age-restricted platforms had removed access to 4.7 million under-sixteen accounts across Australia. The United Kingdom took a different route through its 2023 Online Safety Act, imposing systemic duties enforced by Ofcom, with mandatory age assurance for adult content in force since July 2025. The British experience carries its own warning: the age verification rollout triggered a 1,400 percent surge in VPN signups, according to Proton VPN data. The UK has since launched a consultation on whether to ban social media for under-sixteens outright.", }, { title: "Alberta Separatists Find an Unlikely Ally in Quebec", url: "https://thewalrus.ca/albertas-flirtation-with-separatism-gives-quebec-that-familiar-feeling/", question: "Despite the political attention it draws, support for separatism remains limited in Alberta. According to a recent Ipsos poll, what percentage of Albertans are in favour of a binding independence referendum?", options: [ "8 percent", "19 percent", "24 percent", "33 percent", ], answer: "19 percent", correct: "In Alberta, separatism remains a fringe position. A June Ipsos poll found just 19 percent support a binding independence referendum, while 72 percent prefer the province stay in Canada. But Alberta’s October referendum may not be the only constitutional drama on the ballot. Quebecers will go to the polls that same month to elect a new government, and they could hand victory to a PQ leader who has promised to hold a third sovereignty referendum during his first mandate. Canadians may find themselves debating not one separatist movement but two.", incorrect: "In Alberta, separatism remains a fringe position. A June Ipsos poll found just 19 percent support a binding independence referendum, while 72 percent prefer the province stay in Canada. But Alberta’s October referendum may not be the only constitutional drama on the ballot. Quebecers will go to the polls that same month to elect a new government, and they could hand victory to a PQ leader who has promised to hold a third sovereignty referendum during his first mandate. Canadians may find themselves debating not one separatist movement but two.", }, { image: "https://walrus-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/img/WEB_Canadas-Defence-Spending-Surge_JUN26-1536x1024.jpg", title: "Inside Canada’s $500 Billion Defence Spending Gamble", url: "https://thewalrus.ca/ottawa-wants-to-build-a-war-machine/", question: "After decades of delays, Canada’s CH-148 Cyclone helicopter finally entered service in 2015, but the aircraft continued to face limitations due to its design and ownership structure. Why does Canada often require contractor approval for Cyclone maintenance?", options: [ "The helicopter relies on components that are no longer manufactured", "The helicopters were acquired under a lease-to-own contract", "Canada lacks qualified aerospace engineers", "Canada did not obtain full control over the helicopter’s proprietary technology", ], answer: "Canada did not obtain full control over the helicopter’s proprietary technology", correct: "The Cyclone became a vivid illustration of Canada’s broader struggle to maintain control over the hardware it helps develop and purchase. Because the aircraft was built by Sikorsky Aircraft in Stratford, Connecticut, Canada never obtained full control over the technology embedded inside it. Ottawa bought the helicopter but not the underlying proprietary electronics and flight-control architecture that make it work. As a result, Canada often requires contractor approval for upgrades, repairs, or modifications.", incorrect: "The Cyclone became a vivid illustration of Canada’s broader struggle to maintain control over the hardware it helps develop and purchase. Because the aircraft was built by Sikorsky Aircraft in Stratford, Connecticut, Canada never obtained full control over the technology embedded inside it. Ottawa bought the helicopter but not the underlying proprietary electronics and flight-control architecture that make it work. As a result, Canada often requires contractor approval for upgrades, repairs, or modifications.", }, { title: "One Brother Is a Toronto Cop. The Other Has Ties to Organized Crime", url: "https://thewalrus.ca/toronto-cop-brother-mob-costa/", question: "When Michael Costa became a person of interest in the 2011 murder of jeweller and cocaine trafficker Alexander Kucovic, his brother, Daniel Costa—then a Toronto police officer—helped him leave the country. Where did Daniel send Michael?", options: [ "Lisbon", "Rome", "Santiago", "Buenos Aires", ], answer: "Rome", correct: "According to court documents, immediately after Kucovic’s death, Michael called Daniel, who, by this point, had been with the Toronto police for two years as a third-class constable. At Daniel’s place, Michael, through tears, disclosed that he’d been in a relationship with Kucovic’s wife and that Kucovic had just been killed. He told Daniel he was worried for his own safety. He said he did not believe that the police could protect him. Three days after Kucovic’s murder, on July 5, Daniel bought Michael a one-way ticket from Toronto to Rome to depart two days later.", incorrect: "According to court documents, immediately after Kucovic’s death, Michael called Daniel, who, by this point, had been with the Toronto police for two years as a third-class constable. At Daniel’s place, Michael, through tears, disclosed that he’d been in a relationship with Kucovic’s wife and that Kucovic had just been killed. He told Daniel he was worried for his own safety. He said he did not believe that the police could protect him. Three days after Kucovic’s murder, on July 5, Daniel bought Michael a one-way ticket from Toronto to Rome to depart two days later.", }, ]; ke