Who Runs This Place?
Who’s the "boss" of Canada?
What is the Prime Minister.
🧠 Blurb: The Prime Minister runs the show federally, but trust—your local reps matter just as much (and they might actually answer your emails).
You pay this every time you buy snacks (and yes, it hurts).
What is sales tax.
🧠 Blurb: You’re not just paying for chips—you’re funding schools, roads, and maybe a skating rink you never use.
This 2018 song by Childish Gambino made a powerful statement about race and violence.
What is This Is America.
🧠 Blurb: Music can protest louder than a speech. This one hit like a gut punch.
This influencer sold her bathwater.
Who is Belle Delphine?
🧠 Blurb: Capitalism said “monetize everything” and she said “okay.”
Which country was the first in the world to make it legal for people to check a box saying “non-binary” on their federal passports?
What is Canada
🧠 Blurb: In 2017, Canada became the first country to offer a gender “X” option on passports. Quietly radical—and a reminder that progress doesn’t always shout, sometimes it signs your travel documents
What’s the fancy name for Canada’s rulebook of rights?
What is the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
🧠 Blurb: It’s the official “you can’t do that to me” document. Use it. Know it. Flex it.
Which Marvel character said “I’m just a kid from Brooklyn”... then fought literal fascism?
Who is Captain America?
🧠 Blurb: He punched Nazis. You can send an email to your MLA.
Bonus:
Fascism is when a government becomes a dictatorship, silences dissent, fuels nationalism, and uses violence to keep power. It thrives on "us vs. them" thinking—and it usually starts by promising "order." Spoiler: it ends in repression.
Which fictional character lives in a literal hunger games reality and still sparked a revolution?
Who is Katniss Everdeen?
🧠 Blurb: When the system’s rigged, a single spark (and a bow) can light a fire. Also: excellent braid.
This singer got more people to register to vote than most politicians.
Who is Taylor Swift?
🧠 Blurb: Proof that community organizing doesn’t have to look traditional—sometimes it shows up with eyeliner, a global platform, and a loyal fanbase ready to mobilize.
This movement started with school kids skipping class to fight for climate justice and became an international movement.
What is Fridays for Future.
🧠 Blurb: What started with one girl and a sign outside Swedish parliament became a global youth uprising.
Which level of government controls snow plows and trash day?
WWhat is the municipal government.
🧠 Blurb: Mayors and city councils make more decisions about your daily life than you’d think. Trash talk them if things pile up.
What does “publicly funded” mean?
What is: Paid for by taxpayers (aka all of us crying together).
🧠 Blurb: Your taxes = your stake in the system. Demand good returns.
What does it mean to be an ally?
Using your privilege to support marginalized people.
🧠 Blurb: It’s not about being a savior—it’s about showing up, listening, and using your voice to back theirs.
This celeb tried to solve world hunger… with a tweet.
Who is Elon Musk?
🧠 Blurb: Money talks, but billionaires often just post.
In the Netherlands, prisoners are sometimes released early because of this problem.
What is not enough crime.
🧠 Blurb: Crime is so low that they’ve closed prisons. Imagine that kind of public safety flex.
If you don’t like a law, who do you email or annoy respectfully?
What is your Member of Parliament (MP, federal) or Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA, provincial).
🧠 Blurb: They work for you. No seriously. Blow up their inbox—respectfully.
If we taxed billionaires even just a little more, we could probably fix what?
What is: Literally everything / housing, health care, education, etc.
🧠 Blurb: It’s wild how a fraction of their yacht money could fund entire school systems.
These tools can change public perception through storytelling.
Art / media / video diaries / social media activism
🧠 Blurb: Stories humanize struggles and create empathy.
This Barbie is now banned in multiple countries for being too feminist.
What is the 2023 Barbie movie.
🧠 Blurb: She came in pink and left a trail of cultural chaos. Iconic.
In Germany, there are vending machines that sell this harm reduction tool.
What is clean needles / naloxone / drug testing kits.
🧠 Blurb: Turns out saving lives is more important than judging people. Weird how that works.
In The Purge, crime is legal for 12 hours. What kind of government is that?
What is authoritarianism?
🧠 Blurb: When the state makes chaos legal on purpose, it’s not just dystopian—it’s a warning.
In The Hunger Games, who profits from the suffering of the districts?
What is The Capitol?
🧠 Blurb: When one group gets glam and the rest starve, that’s not fiction—it’s late-stage capitalism.
This method involves collective action in public.
What is a protest or demonstration.
🧠 Blurb: When voices rise together, they shake things up. Protests have changed laws, toppled regimes, and sparked global movements.
In Moncton, NB, you need a permit to do this in your own front yard.
What is throw a snowball?
🧠 Blurb: Yep. Cold-blooded in every sense. Snowball fights are basically municipal crime rings.
In Japan, this is considered more important than grades in school.
What is group harmony, emotional regulation or cleaning your classroom.
🧠 Blurb: Japanese kids clean their schools daily—not as punishment, but as responsibility. Education that teaches ✨community✨.