The year is 2569, Earth is on the verge of collapse and humanity is set for extinction. To preserve our species, we have launched a spacecraft carrying 10,000 frozen human embryos destined for a habitable planet 500 years away. The ship is equipped with all the necessary technology to birth, nurture, and educate these children, raising them to adulthood and imparting the essential skills needed to thrive on their new world. Onboard the vessel are two extensive archives: the Library of Technology, which contains the entirety of humanity's accumulated technological, scientific, and mathematical knowledge throughout history, and the Library of Humanity, encompassing the complete history of human civilization on Earth—including literature, religious texts, philosophical works, and records of political history and theory.

In Canadian politics, a leadership review is a vote held by a political party in which members of that party vote to endorse the current leader. If a leader fails to receive a clear majority in the vote in favour of their leadership they are usually expected to step down or call a leadership election.

Currently, mining and resource extraction in Latin America and the Caribbean are dominated by Canadian companies with between 50-70% of all mining operations involving a Canadian company.

Scam baiting is a tactic where individuals engage with scammers to waste their time, frustrate their efforts, or expose their fraudulent schemes. This practice typically involves playing along with the scammer’s story or posing as a vulnerable target, only to reveal that the scam baiter is not actually interested in the scam.

"In sociology, the third place refers to the social surroundings that are separate from the two usual social environments of home ("first place") and the workplace ("second place"). Examples of third places include churches, cafes, bars, clubs, libraries, gyms, bookstores, hackerspaces, stoops, parks, theaters, among others".

Historically, third spaces were often public and free like churches, parks, and community squares. In recent years, most social activities take place in for profit businesses like sports clubs, cafes and bars.

In 2024, Mexico passed a controversial judicial reform under President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Key changes include the popular election of federal judges, including Supreme Court justices, to increase accountability, replacing the traditional appointment process. Additionally, the number of Supreme Court justices was reduced from 11 to 5, with term limits imposed to prevent lifetime appointments. 

"Nozick's Nightmare" is a machine that allows people to have a full experience of homelessness. The machine transports individuals into a simulated world, where actions taken in Nozick's Nightmare do not affect the real world, the simulation is perfectly accurate. Individuals will know they are within a simulation, all pain and suffering in the simulation feels real, but causes no harm to the user outside of the machine

A pegged currency is one in which the exchange rate between two currencies is fixed to a set rate (ex. the Danish krone (DKK) is pegged to the euro at a central rate of 746.038 kroner per 100 euro, with a 'fluctuation band' of +/- 2.25 per cent). A government maintains a peg by buying and selling foreign reserves to ensure a set price. A floating exchange rate is one in which the relative exchange rate of currencies is determined entirely by the supply and demand of the currency on the open foreign exchange market. The Canadian dollar was previously pegged to the US dollar from 1962 to 1970

"Debate content" for the purpose of this debate refers to the trend in which political content creators debate against individuals with radically different political opinions, garnering viral clips and "gotcha moments" (eg. Twitch streamers, Podcasters, Jubilee style Youtube videos etc.)