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Quiz by Trevor Pritchard, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Trevor Pritchard
about 2 years ago
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Question 1
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Ottawa Small Landlord Association founder Tony Miller says the province's Landlord and Tenant Board has "collapsed," with the wait time for a hearing having ballooned from 25 days to roughly how long?
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Seventy-six days.
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Five months.
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Eight months.
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More than a year.
Question 2
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Quebecers went to the polls Monday, returning François Legault's Coalition Avenir Québec to another four years in office. Which was the only western Quebec riding NOT won by the CAQ?
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Pontiac.
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Chapleau.
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Hull.
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Gatineau.
Question 3
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Grocery retailer Farm Boy was recently fined $90,000 after one of its workers was injured. What happened?
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They fell three metres in an accident at a warehouse.
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They were pinned against a wall by a forklift.
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A crate of citrus fruits toppled onto them.
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They suffered burns when a pizza oven malfunctioned.
Question 4
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Sébastien Vachon-Desjardins of Gatineau, Que., was given a 20-year prison sentence Tuesday, with the presiding judge describing him as "Jesse James meets the 21st century." What did Vachon-Desjardins do?
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He encrypted organizations' data and demanded ransom payments.
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He blackmailed users of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.
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He stole credit card information from customers of food delivery apps.
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He masterminded a ring of thieves that stole catalytic converters from vehicles.
Question 5
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The National Capital Commission announced Tuesday that Nepean Point would be rechristened as Kìwekì Point. What does Kìwekì mean in Algonquin?
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"Returning to one's homeland."
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"Watching the sun rise."
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"The lookout."
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"Where ships launch."
Question 6
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"I get that it's out of a lot of people's hands, but it sucks." What was bike mechanic Lauryn LeBlanc referring to when she spoke those words Wednesday?
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The delayed opening of the Chief William Commanda Bridge.
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An upcoming closure of the Laurier Avenue bike lanes.
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Ongoing rehabilitation work in downtown Smiths Falls.
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A shortage of bike parts due to supply chain issues.
Question 7
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West Carleton-March Coun. Eli El-Chantiry tabled a last-minute motion at a council meeting Wednesday that would require councillors to disclose which of the following pieces of information?
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Personal relationships with staffers or other city employees.
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Texts or messaging app chats that concern municipal issues.
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Meetings with unions or community advocacy groups.
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Reports of energy-inefficient city facilities in their wards.
Question 8
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Police charged six young people this week in connection with an incident that happened in September near Gloucester High School. What are they accused of doing?
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Attacking an orphaned teenage refugee.
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Spray-painting swastikas and other hateful imagery in the area.
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Stealing video games and musical instruments from the nearby library branch.
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Getting into a vicious brawl during a ball hockey game.
Question 9
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What reason did Peter Sloly give Thursday for resigning as chief of the Ottawa Police Service in the middle of this past winter's Freedom Convoy crisis?
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Sloly (binary/octet-stream)
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He feared trust in his leadership was eroding.
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He was frustrated that levels of government weren't working together.
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He was opposed to the federal Emergencies Act.
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He felt he was in over his head handling the scale of the protest.
Question 10
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Protesters descended on Parliament Hill Saturday to call for an end to violence against which country's Hazara minority?
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Afghanistan.
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Turkmenistan.
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Myanmar.
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Eritrea.
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