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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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What did Mayor Jim Watson declare his opposition to this week, calling the idea a "draconian" measure?
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Watson (binary/octet-stream)
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Cancelling next year's Panda Game.
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Launching a fraud investigation into the consortium that built LRT.
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Slashing the police force's 2022 budget.
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Closing down schools due to rising COVID-19 case totals.
Question 2
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What has Philadelphia-based company TRA Inc. been hired to do for the City of Ottawa?
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Review the plan to return LRT trains to service.
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Design the interior of the future central library branch.
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Connect infrastructure to the future Tewin suburb.
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Create a 25-year master plan for the future of Bank Street.
Question 3
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What unexpected discovery greeted Anuj Mittal when he and his wife showed up at their new Barrhaven home last month?
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Another family was already living in it.
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Someone had plastered it with vulgar graffiti.
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A small meteorite had crashed through the roof.
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The home had no floors.
Question 4
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Gilbert Dardel, mayor of the small village of Namur, Que., explained this week why council rejected a plan to build which of the following structures in the municipality?
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A 54-storey luxury condo tower.
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A new training base for the Canadian military.
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A wind-and-solar farm that would provide one-sixteenth of Quebec's power.
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A Church of Scientology retreat.
Question 5
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In a French-language interview, La Pêche, Que., resident Nicolas Dupont told Radio-Canada this week that he was "clearly the victim of a premeditated sabotage." What happened?
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Hundreds of people showed up for a party at his Airbnb rental.
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A suspected arsonist burned down his family's sugar shack.
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A former employee destroyed his café's $9,000 espresso machine.
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Someone using his name attempted to defraud the municipality.
Question 6
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Ontario's police watchdog laid two charges this week against Ottawa patrol officer Const. Sundeep Singh. One was breach of trust. What was the other?
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Siu (binary/octet-stream)
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Sexual assault.
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Forgery.
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Dangerous driving causing death.
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Fraud over $5,000.
Question 7
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Maude Marquis-Bissonnette is one of six people in the running to take over which of the following positions?
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Mayor of Gatineau.
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Warden of the MRC des Collines-de-l'Outaouais.
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Councillor for Ottawa's Kanata North ward.
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CEO of the National Capital Commission.
Question 8
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Why did Jason Baker resign this week as the mayor of Brockville, Ont.?
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He'd moved to a new home and no longer lived in the city.
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Social media attacks were having a negative effect on his mental health.
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He'd accepted his dream job as a landscape architect.
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His daughter's country music career is taking off and he wanted to support her.
Question 9
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This man, seen here after his 2009 arrest, had an appeal of his conviction tossed out Thursday. What was he found guilty of doing?
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Stabbing an Ottawa police constable to death.
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Burning down a historic restaurant in the ByWard Market.
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Plotting to carry out a terrorist attack on Parliament Hill.
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Killing an Ottawa judge, his wife, and their neighbour.
Question 10
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These early 20th-century artifacts were uncovered during recent remediation work on land that used to be a city dump. What's the land's current use?
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A west-of-downtown park.
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A construction site for a future LRT station.
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A community garden in Old Ottawa South.
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An embassy building near the Rideau River.
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