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Quiz by Trevor Pritchard, updated 2 days ago
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Created by Trevor Pritchard
4 days ago
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Question 1
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Who did West Carleton-March Coun. Clarke Kelly get into a heated confrontation with in July, leading to an integrity commissioner's report this month that found he violated the city's code of conduct?
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Staff at a daycare.
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A community police officer.
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An employee with the public works department.
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A barista at a Stittsville coffee shop.
Question 2
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Hawkesbury, Ont., Mayor Robert Lefebvre is one of several mayors in eastern Ontario who are blaming WHICH of the following for the need to hike property taxes in their 2025 budgets?
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A spike in provincial police costs.
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Tariffs threatened by U.S. president-elect Donald Trump.
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Uncertainties around climate change.
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The restructuring of Ontario's health-care units.
Question 3
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Some advocates and members of opposition parties are accusing the Ford government of being anti-democratic for potentially fast-tracking WHICH bill without holding public consultations?
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Ford (binary/octet-stream)
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One that would overhaul how bike lanes in Ontario are built.
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One that would force some drug consumption sites to close.
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One that would curtail the scope of environmental assessments.
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One that would let municipalities boot misbehaving councillors out of office.
Question 4
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In a news release Wednesday, lawyer Christian Saraïlis wrote that his law firm had reached a "fair and equitable settlement" in a class-action suit first authorized in 2018 involving WHICH group of workers?
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Some federal government employees dealing with Phoenix pay issues.
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Health-care workers who had their wages garnished by the Ford government.
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Grocery and convenience store employees forced to work through the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Ontario firefighters who'd been exposed to toxic chemicals for decades.
Question 5
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Ottawa police laid more than four dozen charges Wednesday against 33-year-old Tyler Low. What is Low accused of doing?
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Attacking people and vehicles near an Orléans mall.
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Running a chain of psychedelic mushroom stores in Ontario.
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Trafficking the fentanyl that led Belleville, Ont., to declare a state of emergency.
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Defrauding dozens of people applying for Canadian citizenship.
Question 6
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Jonathan Hobin and Lucas de Faria told CBC that they were never really expecting to find a stranger willing to do WHAT when they made a post on a local Facebook group?
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Donate a kidney to de Faria.
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Carry the couple's child to term.
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Adopt their epileptic cat.
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Swap houses with them.
Question 7
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Which of the following amenities, for which the city has set aside $1 million in its 2025 budget, could end up being installed in Dundonald Park?
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A self-cleaning washroom.
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Two pickleball courts.
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A large glowing "Centretown" sign.
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A half-dozen security cameras.
Question 8
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According to both city and provincial officials, what's being blamed for murky water in Green's Creek?
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Runoff from a nearby quarry.
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A rare November algae bloom.
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Higher-than-normal manganese levels upstream.
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Leaching from the city's landfill.
Question 9
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The holiday movie Hot Frosty has shot to the top of Netflix's most-watched list globally, racking up more than 28 million views in its first two weeks. In which eastern Ontario community was the majority of the film shot?
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Brockville.
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Carleton Place.
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Merrickville.
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Perth.
Question 10
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Why is the Canada Post strike, which has now passed the two-week mark, particularly concerning for Marc Caron and Manon Gignac?
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Caron's coverage for his cancer medication has been terminated.
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Their charity can't ship toques and mittens to their mostly-rural clients.
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They were going to visit Gignac's ailing mother in France but can't get their passports.
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They're in danger of missing mortgage payments on their Kanata home.
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