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Quiz by Trevor Pritchard, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Trevor Pritchard
about 3 years ago
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Question 1
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Danny Sivyer told CBC News this week his venue was "at the end of [its] rope" and would be shutting down Sept. 18 after nearly four decades in business. What does he run?
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A music venue in the ByWard Market.
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An independent theatre in Old Ottawa South.
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An LGBTQ bookstore in Sandy Hill.
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A movie rental store in the Glebe.
Question 2
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According to local officials, what did someone who took part in a Cornwall, Ont., hospital protest against COVID-19 vaccines Tuesday allegedly do?
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Show up with an active case of COVID-19.
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Scrawl a racist message on a nurse's car.
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Throw a large rock through a hospital window.
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Overdose on ivermectin.
Question 3
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What happened near Hunt Club and Conroy roads late Tuesday afternoon that prompted an investigation by the Special Investigations Unit, Ontario's police watchdog?
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Siu (binary/octet-stream)
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Three people were hospitalized after a crash involving a police cruiser.
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An officer shot a man who was wielding a can of bear spray.
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A man jumped from an apartment window during a drug raid.
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A journalist was arrested while trying to photograph a crime scene.
Question 4
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Ottawa police Chief Peter Sloly said Wednesday night that "short-term thinking" would not solve which of the following problems?
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Sloly (binary/octet-stream)
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The steadily climbing number of opioid overdoses.
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Motor vehicle collisions that injure cyclists and pedestrians.
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Violence in the ByWard Market.
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Structural racism within policing.
Question 5
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City of Ottawa official Anthony Di Monte announced this week he would be retiring at the end of October. What position has he held for the past few years?
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General manager of emergency services.
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Head of OC Transpo.
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Director of the bylaw department.
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Integrity commissioner.
Question 6
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Which eastern Ontario city issued an emergency order that came into effect Friday, following a string of long weekend street parties that violated the Reopening Ontario Act?
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Brockville.
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Cornwall.
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Kingston.
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Napanee.
Question 7
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What change does a Gatineau, Que., public health advisory committee say should be implemented on more than 1,500 streets in the western Quebec city?
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Kids should be allowed to play street hockey on them.
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Segregated bike lanes should be added.
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Street signs should also be translated into Anishinaabemowin.
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They should be blocked off to most motorized vehicles during the summer.
Question 8
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Hélène Barette-Mousseau has complained to the oversight board for western Quebec's health authority after she spent hours in pain on the floor of the Hull Hospital ER with which medical condition?
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A perforated appendix.
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Kidney stones.
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Acute pancreatitis.
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A slipped disc.
Question 9
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Where did Ottawa police apparently discover a human leg Friday afternoon?
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At a recycling plant.
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Off to the side of a forested trail.
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In a garbage bin behind a hospital.
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In a corn field.
Question 10
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Barry Blondin says he's still haunted by what he saw in New York after the 9/11 attacks, which occurred 20 years ago Saturday. Why was he in the city?
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He'd driven down after the attack to help with the search efforts.
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He was visiting his daughter and staying two blocks away from the World Trade Center.
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His law firm was scheduled to have a meeting in the North Tower that afternoon.
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He was part of the engineering team that analyzed how the towers collapsed.
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