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This week: A Canadian fast-food giant is looking to expand with a Chinese partner, and a key ingredient to their success has gotten more expensive than ever. You might have already noticed it on your grocery receipt, but which food is it? Take our quiz and find out.


1Restaurant Brands International, the Toronto-based fast-food giant, struck a deal this week with a Chinese asset manager to do what?
a. Expand Burger King in China
b. Expand Tim Hortons in China
c. Expand a Chinese coffee chain in Canada
d. Expand its Popeyes chain in Japan

a. Expand Burger King in China. Restaurant Brands International signed a joint venture deal with Chinese alternative asset manager CPE to help grow Burger King in China. CPE will invest US$350-million in the joint venture.

2Ouch. The Canada-U.S. trade war is really beginning to bite. Which industry could lose 30,000 jobs in Quebec alone, according to the province’s Premier?
a. Tourism
b. Aluminum production
c. Forestry
d. Warehouses

c. Forestry. Quebec Premier François Legault is warning that 30,000 forestry jobs could be lost in the province – half of the industry’s total employment. His comments have set off alarm bells in Quebec logging towns.

3Stock markets shuddered this week when Softbank, the big Japanese tech investor, sold US$5.8-billion of which stock?
a. OpenAI
b. Microsoft
c. Meta Platforms
d. Nvidia

d. Nvidia. SoftBank’s sale of its entire stake in the chipmaker jolted stock markets. It stoked fears that the frenzy around artificial intelligence may have peaked.

4Apollo Global Management, the big U.S. money manager, announced a deal this week to buy which iconic sports franchise?
a. The Green Bay Packers
b. Atlético de Madrid
c. Chelsea F.C.
d. Boston Red Sox

b. Atlético de Madrid. Apollo is acquiring a majority stake in the Spanish soccer club. The deal, which values Atlético at about US$2.5-billion, is the latest push into European soccer by deep-pocketed U.S. investors.

5“I’m going quiet.” Who said that this week?
a. U.S. President Donald Trump
b. Tesla boss Elon Musk
c. Billionaire U.S. investor Warren Buffett
d. Billionaire Canadian investor Prem Watsa

c. Billionaire U.S. investor Warren Buffett is finally taking a step back at the age of 95. He said he will be “going quiet” after he steps down as chief of Berkshire Hathaway at the end of this year. But don’t write him off just yet. He will continue to deliver an annual Thanksgiving message. He also plans to “step up” his philanthropy, giving away the US$149-billion in Berkshire Hathaway stock he continues to hold.

6Sonder Holdings shut down this week. What did the once high-flying Canadian-founded company specialize in?
a. Food delivery
b. Self-driving buses
c. Plant-based restaurants
d. Short-term rentals

d. Short-term rentals. The company, founded in Montreal in 2014, promised the comfort of an Airbnb unit with the consistency and polish of a hotel. Sonder reached a valuation of nearly US$2-billion when it went public in 2022, but it has struggled since.

7IBM has announced the Loon. What is it?
a. An experimental quantum computing chip
b. An artificial-intelligence companion for creative types
c. A robot bird that can monitor your home security
d. Glasses that allow you to call up a database of information with just a few words

a. An experimental quantum computing chip. IBM says the Loon is a significant step toward making useful quantum computers before the end of the decade. If technical issues can be solved, quantum computers could some day solve problems in hours that would take today’s computers thousands of years.

8Which everyday commodity has soared in price this year?
a. Milk
b. Bread
c. Beef
d. Turkey

c. Beef prices have climbed 23 per cent above their five-year average. The sky-high meat prices are hitting both Canadian and U.S. consumers. Last month, U.S. President Donald Trump told American ranchers to drop prices and threatened to quadruple Argentine imports.

9What did the United States officially end this week?
a. Subsidies for electric vehicles
b. Production of the one-cent coin
c. Free access to economic data
d. Food stamps

b. Production of the one-cent coin. The U.S. Mint has made its last penny. Production costs for the one-cent coin had grown to nearly four times its face value.

10What are Canadian companies doing in the face of economic uncertainty?
a. Issuing debt at a record pace
b. Paying off loans at a record pace
c. Defaulting at a record pace
d. Issuing stock at a record pace

a. Issuing debt at a record pace. It’s an all-out corporate debt binge. During the first nine months of 2025, Canadian businesses issued more than $76-billion in corporate bonds, putting the market on track to surpass already lofty 2024 levels.

11Canada is in the running to be the home of which new international initiative?
a. A global seed bank
b. A bank for defence projects
c. A global vaccine bank
d. A bank for nuclear projects

b. A bank for defence projects. Canada is in the running to headquarter a new multinational bank dedicated specifically to financing defence projects. The Defence, Security and Resilience Bank, or DSRB, is a multilateral lending institution that is being established by a collective of countries including NATO members and their Indo-Pacific allies.

12Are Canadians continuing to avoid the United States? In October, the number of Canadian residents returning by car from the U.S. was:
a. About the same as last year
b. Down 10 per cent from last year
c. Down 20 per cent from last year
d. Down 30 per cent from last year

d. Down 30 per cent from last year. Canadians continued to steer clear of the United States in October, with the month marking yet another major drop in year-over-year visitors. The number of Canadian residents who returned by car from the U.S. fell to 1.4 million in October, a 30.5-per-cent drop from the same period in 2024, according to preliminary data from Statistics Canada.

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