Current Events
This capital city has been attacked by Russian military forces.
What is Kyiv?
The only party who can make treaties or acquire land from Indigenous nations.
What is the Crown?
The number of justices on the Supreme Court of Canada.
What is nine?
The more common name for sections 1 to 34 of the Constitution Act.
What is the Charter of Rights and Freedoms?
Keep your cherry pie free of this in Kansas:
a) Ice cream
b) Whipped cream
c) Cheese
d) A spoon
What is ice cream?
Bonnie Henry announced this yesterday.
What is lifting the mask mandate?
The political institutions imposed on Indigenous groups by the Indian Act.
What are band councils?
This appellant appealed his unreasonable search by RCMP Officer Joe Justice after a friend spilled non-alcoholic beer on him.
Who is Dan Driver?
The year the modern Constitution Act was passed.
When was 1982?
Don't get caught selling this on Sunday in Columbus, Ohio:
a) Hair
b) Cornflakes
c) Liquor
d) Rice
What are cornflakes?
This Canadian government body that debated but never had an opportunity to vote on the Emergencies Act.
What is the Senate?
The level of (non-Indigenous) government with jurisdiction over and responsibility for reserved lands.
What is the federal government?
The opposing side when an appellant brings an appeal to a higher court.
What is a respondent?
Section 35 of the Constitution covers this.
What are the Rights of the Aboriginal Peoples of Canada?
Eat this with anything but a fork in Georgia:
a) Cereal
b) Fried chicken
c) French fries
d) Gumbo
What is fried chicken?
The US-led military alliance that Russia claims has gotten too close to its borders as justification for the invasion of Ukraine.
What is NATO?
The two Indigenous groups who have always been explicitly excluded from the Indian Act.
Who are the Inuit and Metis?
One of the four parts of the Oakes Test.
What are "pressing and substantial", "rationally connected", "minimal impairment", or "proportionality"?
The one province where both French and English are recognized as official languages.
What is New Brunswick?
Don't drop the f-word in front of this person in Texas:
a) Judge
b) Senior citizen
c) A corpse
d) Police
What is a corpse?
This former Quebec premier is running to be the next leader of the Conservative Party.
Who is Jean Charest?
The first woman to have her Indian status reinstated by Bill C-31 in 1985.
Who is Mary Two-Axe Earley?
Until 1949, the highest court of appeal for Canada.
What is the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council?
This clause allows provincial governments to exempt their laws from sections of the Charter, other than those protecting democratic, mobility, or language rights.
What is the notwithstanding clause?
Single women can do this in Florida, as long as it isn't Sunday:
a) Drink alcohol
b) Eat worms
c) Mow the lawn
d) Skydiving
What is skydiving?