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Quiz by Trevor Pritchard, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Trevor Pritchard
almost 2 years ago
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Question 1
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With global vaccination rates appearing to have dropped during the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Vera Etches said Monday that Ottawa Public Health was taking steps to prevent an outbreak of WHICH disease?
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Measles.
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Chicken pox.
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Meningitis.
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Polio.
Question 2
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What social media platform was inaccessible as of Tuesday to federal civil servants on their work phones, due to security concerns raised by the Chief Information Officer of Canada?
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Twitter.
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TikTok.
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Snapchat.
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Weibo.
Question 3
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What did Kitigan Zibi Anishinābeg Chief Dylan Whiteduck denounce this week as an example of "cultural appropriation"?
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A cultural festival held in Gatineau.
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One of 2023's best-selling Canadian novels.
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An upscale restaurant that just opened in the ByWard Market.
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A marketing campaign for a new Ottawa suburb.
Question 4
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This work of art, designed by local muralist Jimmy Baptiste for Black History Month, was prominently displayed WHERE in the Ottawa-Gatineau area?
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Art (binary/octet-stream)
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On the National Arts Centre's Kipnes Lantern.
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In the great hall at the Canadian Museum of History.
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On the construction fencing that's blocked off Parliament Hill.
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On the exterior of dozens of OC Transpo and STO buses.
Question 5
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Some health-care advocates are concerned about a clinic operating out of The Ottawa Hospital's Riverside campus on weekends, worrying it could be a step toward the privatization of the province's health-care system. What kinds of procedures does the clinic perform?
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Hip and knee replacements.
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Bariatric surgery.
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Cataract removals and other eye surgeries.
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Colonoscopies and endoscopies.
Question 6
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Police have laid 12 charges against 35-year-old Kody Crosby in connection with last month's explosion that destroyed four under-construction homes in Orléans. It's not Crosby's first run-in with police, however. What was he accused of doing in 2019, although the charges were later withdrawn?
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Breaking into a Kanata construction site.
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Stealing $60,000 in copper wire from a hydro substation.
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Stunt driving on Highway 417.
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Defrauding the co-owner of his boxing gym.
Question 7
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Retired Mountie Yvon Mercier received a life sentence Wednesday with no chance of parole for 14 years for his role in the deaths of Pierre Dupuis and Céline Labelle. How did they all know each other?
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They worked together on the same RCMP task force.
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They'd been planning to sail around the world together.
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Dupuis and Labelle were Mercier's tenants.
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Mercier was an investor in Dupuis and Labelle's cannabis business.
Question 8
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Local activists Robin Browne and Bailey Gauthier received a one-year ban from Ottawa City Hall on Wednesday after they disrupted the 2023 budget discussions. What aspect of the budget were they unhappy with?
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The elimination of dozens of city buses.
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The amount of money spent on the police force.
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The steps being taken to address the housing crisis.
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Funding for snow-clearing operations.
Question 9
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Coun. Shawn Menard, the chair of Ottawa's environment and climate change committee, is demanding answers after drone footage showed that workers had done WHAT on the site of the future Tewin suburb?
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Menard (binary/octet-stream)
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Cut down hundreds of trees.
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Dumped potentially toxic waste into a creek.
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Trapped and removed at-risk turtle species.
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Sprayed large amounts of pesticides.
Question 10
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Duong Hoang, one of several owners of a 16-unit apartment building on Nelson Street, said they're still facing a financial hit several years after WHAT happened to the property?
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Hoang (binary/octet-stream)
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A garbage truck slammed into it.
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It was infested by thousands of bed bugs.
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Its roof was torn off by a tornado.
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A tenant's meth lab exploded.
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