CBC Ottawa news quiz for the week of Sept. 12

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How closely did you follow the past week in local news?
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Questão 1

Questão
More than a decade after being gutted by fire, this building in Old Ottawa South could soon have a date with the wrecking ball. What was it once home to?
Responda
  • A video store.
  • A neighbourhood pub.
  • An electronics retailer.
  • A pawn shop.

Questão 2

Questão
According to a City of Ottawa online survey, more than 90 per cent of respondents said the municipality should boost customer protections and regulate rates for which of the following?
Responda
  • Tow truck drivers.
  • Businesses that offer short-term loans.
  • Home inspectors.
  • Snowplow operators.

Questão 3

Questão
This Ottawa community was so tired of the number of heavy trucks trundling through their streets that residents counted them themselves and submitted a report to the city. Which community is complaining?
Responda
  • Cumberland.
  • Manotick.
  • Navan.
  • Stittsville.

Questão 4

Questão
A number of parents whose children attend Ecole élémentaire publique Francojeunesse, seen here, are worried that the school will soon serve as what?
Responda
  • A polling station on election day.
  • A drop-off location for household hazardous waste.
  • The main pavilion for a Franco-Ontarian cultural festival.
  • A temporary public library branch.

Questão 5

Questão
Why did The Ottawa Hospital issue an apology this week to some of its employees?
Responda
  • A mass email accidentally revealed the names of unvaccinated workers.
  • Anti-vaccine protesters were mistakenly given permission to use staff parking spots.
  • A fundraising campaign used nurses' photos without getting their permission.
  • About one dozen employees' bikes were damaged in a construction mishap.

Questão 6

Questão
These six highrises could one day go up along Highway 417 near Clyde and Carling avenues. What would they replace?
Responda
  • An Anglican church.
  • A former dairy factory.
  • A large swath of greenspace.
  • An aging strip mall.

Questão 7

Questão
What are some 60 former interpreters who assisted the Canadian Armed Forces in Afghanistan now doing, in the hopes the federal government will more quickly resettle family members still in the Taliban-ruled country?
Responda
  • They're going on a hunger strike.
  • They're camping out in front of the Department of Foreign Affairs.
  • They're erecting roadblocks at a busy downtown intersection.
  • They're condemning the Liberals in pre-election ads.

Questão 8

Questão
Which incumbent MP is Ottawa resident Vinny Manes encouraging people not to re-elect?
Responda
  • Pierre Poilievre.
  • Chandra Arya.
  • David McGuinty.
  • Anita Vandenbeld.

Questão 9

Questão
Dylan Whiteduck, chief of Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg, is urging the leaders of the federal parties to "work together, as a country, and fix the problem." What problem is he talking about?
Responda
  • Access to clean drinking water.
  • Discrimination in the health-care sector.
  • The declining use of Indigenous languages.
  • A countrywide shortage of affordable housing.

Questão 10

Questão
David McDonald and Kim Cormier became fast friends after Cormier invited McDonald, who has been intermittently homeless since 2016, to pitch his tent in the backyard of her Kingston, Ont., home. How did they meet?
Responda
  • They started volunteering at a local food bank on the same day.
  • McDonald asked her to watch his stuff while he fixed his scooter's flat tire.
  • Cormier tracked him down after mistakenly getting sent his disability cheque.
  • McDonald saw Cormier struggling with pruning a large tree and offered to help.

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