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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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Why does Mickeala Guiguere want cameras installed as soon as possible at her Gladstone Avenue apartment tower?
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There have been two fires in the past two weekends.
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Someone has been breaking into the garage and vandalizing vehicles.
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She and other tenants want proof of a widespread rat infestation.
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Tenants believe thieves have been stealing their mail.
Question 2
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Two minor hockey coaches in Gatineau, Que., have been suspended for life by Hockey Outaouais. What are they alleged to have done?
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Failed to report players' allegations of abuse.
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Conspired to throw several minor hockey games.
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Fought with a third coach outside the Slush Puppie Centre.
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Took part in the hazing of new players.
Question 3
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Lee Galley, who runs a grocery store in Selwyn, Ont., told CBC Radio he would be selling what suddenly expensive vegetable at cost in the hopes prices would level out before Christmas?
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Lettuce.
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Cauliflower.
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Brussels sprouts.
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Tomatoes.
Question 4
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Monday night's police board meeting was an eventful one, with one public delegate refusing to leave his seat until the board answered his questions and another delegate disrupting the meeting by doing what?
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Playing several songs from Hollywood blockbusters on a tin whistle.
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Standing on a chair and delivering a soliloquy from Shakespeare's Richard III.
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Donning a unicorn mask and powering up a bubble blowing machine.
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Spritzing board members with water while decked out in a clown costume.
Question 5
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Who stepped down on Monday, two days before a scathing report into Ottawa's LRT came out?
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The councillor who chaired the city's transit commission.
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The city manager.
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The head of OC Transpo.
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Ontario's transportation minister.
Question 6
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Justice William Hourigan used caustic language in his 664-page report into the LRT network, including calling one particular element of the project "unconscionable." What was he referring to?
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The selection of an Alstom train that ran on unproven technology.
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The decision by city officials to change the pass-fail criteria during the testing stage.
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The fact builder RTG knowingly misled the city as to when LRT would be completed.
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The use of a public-private (P3) contract to build the line in the first place.
Question 7
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was among several Canadian leaders who criticized the University of Ottawa this week for doing what?
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Banning cameras at an event with China's ambassador to Canada.
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Inviting a pro-Putin professor to teach in its engineering department.
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Failing to implement recommendations in an anti-racism report.
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Creating a new research chair position in Palestinian studies.
Question 8
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Mikka Komaksiutiksak and Katia d'Argencourt are involved with Arsaniq, a new drop-in centre for two-spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer Inuit youth in the Ottawa area. What does Arsaniq mean in Inuktitut?
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Midnight sun.
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Northern lights.
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Tundra.
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Glacier.
Question 9
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Premier Doug Ford said Thursday that Bonnie Lysyk, Ontario's auditor general, should "stay in her lane" after it emerged that her office had hired undercover operatives to do what?
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Lysyk (binary/octet-stream)
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Test money laundering protections at casinos.
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Purchase legal cannabis without showing any ID.
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Investigate conditions at provincially operated long-term care homes.
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Violate COVID-19 masking rules to see how businesses would react.
Question 10
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École du Grand-Boisé in Chelsea, Que., has cancelled pizza lunches until after the holidays after what unexpected topping was discovered Thursday on a pair of pies?
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Mouse droppings.
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Shards of glass.
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Cannabis gummies.
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Dead spiders.
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