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Quiz by Trevor Pritchard, updated 3 months ago
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Created by Trevor Pritchard
3 months ago
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Question 1
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The Township of North Stormont voted Tuesday to dock one month's pay from Coun. Adrian Bugelli after an investigation found he did what at the Moose Creek Recreational Hall last September?
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Got drunk and then fought several people.
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Made unwanted advances to a volunteer there.
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Stole a painting from the wall.
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Threatened to use his position to get someone fired.
Question 2
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Why will the supervised drug consumption site run by the Somerset West Community Health Centre be shutting down in the months ahead?
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It's located too close to a school or child-care centre.
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Its staff are no longer allowed to dispense naloxone.
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The site's operations are relocating to Hintonburg.
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Too many workers have quit due to stress and burnout.
Question 3
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Instead of his usual summer bike trip across Europe, Ottawa's Victor Emerson set his sights on a different challenge this summer — cycling to WHICH of the following local locations?
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Every branch of the Ottawa Public Library.
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Every eastern Ontario provincial park.
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Every craft brewery within a 100-kilometre radius of his home.
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Every museum in Ottawa-Gatineau.
Question 4
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Food retailer Loblaws announced this week it would be piloting a new ultra-discount grocery store in three Ontario communities: Windsor, St. Catharines, and WHICH eastern Ontario city?
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Brockville.
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Cornwall.
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Kingston.
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Napanee.
Question 5
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Who wrote the letter that Anthony Inglis Howard-Williams, right, is showing to Barbara Welch in this photograph?
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Welch's father, not long after he was captured by the Germans in the First World War.
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The daughter whom Welch put up for adoption more than 50 years ago.
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The Nobel Prize committee, recognizing Welch's DNA research 60 years after her male colleagues won.
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Welch herself, who stuck the letter in a bottle when she was 11 and tossed it in the ocean.
Question 6
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Several new details emerged this week in the February arrest of Kane Niynodagara — a young Black man whom police mistook for a murder suspect — including that WHAT happened during the pursuit?
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A police cruiser crashed into a billboard.
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One of the officers suffered a heart attack.
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A bystander was hit with a conducted energy weapon.
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An officer dropped their gun down an open manhole.
Question 7
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According to internal City of Ottawa emails, officials were concerned about the stability of the ceiling structure at WHICH light rail station — even before it was closed in May for several days so risks could be addressed?
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Lyon.
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Rideau.
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St-Laurent.
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Blair.
Question 8
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What reason did Capital Pride executive director Callie Metler give on Thursday for their decision to cut the length of the annual Pride parade route in half?
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A shortage of police officers to provide security.
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Threats from anti-2LGBTQ+ protesters.
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The fact numerous local agencies had chosen to pull out.
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Concerns about extremely hot and humid weather.
Question 9
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What has Vance Trudeau, a professor in the University of Ottawa's biology department, come up with in the hopes of boosting the population of the threatened western chorus frog?
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A hormonal treatment that encourages frogs to breed.
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A drone that can spray frog pheromones across their habitat.
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Artificial intelligence that predicts when frogs are most likely to be in the mood.
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Modified genes that make their tadpoles less palatable to predators.
Question 10
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Former Liberal health minister Jane Philpott told CBC she's leaving the door open to a possible return to politics as her term holding WHAT position expires next June?
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Dean of health sciences at Queen's University.
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Chair of The Ottawa Hospital's board of governors.
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CEO of the National Capital Commission.
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President of the Ontario Medical Association.
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