Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is a type of AI that matches or surpasses human cognitive capabilities across a wide range of cognitive tasks. This contrasts with narrow AI, which is limited to specific tasks.

The "player empowerment era" refers to a period in professional sports, most notably in the NBA, where star players have significantly more leverage and agency to influence their careers by demanding trades, choosing where they want to play during free agency, and essentially dictating team direction to a greater extent than in previous eras, often highlighted by the actions of players like LeBron James and Kevin Durant. This trend is generally considered to have started around 2010 with LeBron.

For the purposes of this debate, privatization of the Canadian Pension Plan (CPP) would entail measures such as:

• Turning the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) from a crown corporation to a private corporation owned by those who contribute to the fund
• Creating a system where individuals are allowed to opt out and eliminating all contribution requirements

Currently, employees must pay a 5.95% annual contribution rate on their income, which is matched by their employer (so 11.9% total). Note that measures such as Old Age Support (OAS) and Guaranteed Income Support (GIS), which provide additional support to low-income seniors, are not under the purview of CPPIB.

Quebec has three anglophone universities: McGill, Concordia, and Bishop’s University. In October 2023, the province of Quebec announced plans to double tuition for out-of-province Canadian students at these universities. Following negotiations, the increase was limited to 33% on the condition that 80% of students from outside Quebec reach an intermediate level of French by the time they graduate. Tuition for Quebec residents is approximately half of what out-of-province tuition costs. The Quebec government will claw back the majority of the revenue raised by the increased tuition and use it to fund francophone universities.

Five Eyes is an intelligence sharing agreement between the US, UK, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia. There are a number of informal cooperative agreements with other governments (e.g. Singapore, France, and Denmark) that Five Eyes works with on a case-by-case basis when their incentives are aligned. These cooperations often involve sharing intelligence or the planning of covert operations. Currently, Five Eyes' has no cooperative agreements with non-state actors.

The Eye of Rah is a widely accessible device that can quickly calculate an action's effect on the overall quantity of wellbeing in the universe thus far. The Eye considers only the time period between its activation and the action in question.