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Quiz by Trevor Pritchard, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Trevor Pritchard
about 5 years ago
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Question 1
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This house on River Road suffered severe damage in a fire Monday night. What do fire officials say caused it?
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Candles that fell over during a power outage.
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A cigarette left burning on a living room sofa.
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A squirrel that chewed through an electrical wire.
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A malfunctioning Instant Pot.
Question 2
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Ottawa police said Tuesday they would not be charging a woman who called 911 on a young Black man last month. What was the man doing at the time of the call?
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Pausing to rest in a park.
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Skateboarding on a downtown sidewalk.
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Taking a photo of her house.
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Delivering the wrong Uber Eats order.
Question 3
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Robin Browne, co-lead of local advocacy organization The 613-819 Black Hub, says a recent report has confirmed "a lot of the things that a lot of us in the Black community knew anecdotally." What was that report about?
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Browne (binary/octet-stream)
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Attitudes toward mental health.
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Arrests, traffic stops and other interactions with police.
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Food insecurity.
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Part-time and casual employment.
Question 4
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"They feel robbed because they've been working their asses off all year." Who spoke those words this week?
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The head of the union representing OC Transpo drivers.
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The Ottawa Redblacks' player representative.
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The local spokesperson for the Ontario Federation of Agriculture.
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Premier Doug Ford.
Question 5
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Why were some students at École élémentaire catholique Jonathan-Pitre, seen here, already back in class Wednesday, despite the fact most local schools aren't reopening until early September?
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It was a one-day "test run" for this fall's COVID-19 protocols.
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The school follows a calendar that distributes part of the summer vacation though the year.
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Some French-language teachers are part of a union that negotiated an earlier start date.
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They were actually filming a promotional video about the pandemic for Ottawa Public Health.
Question 6
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Also on Wednesday, the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board released updates to its back-to-school plan. Which of the following was NOT one of those updates?
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Ocdsb (binary/octet-stream)
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The return to school will now be staggered over two weeks.
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Secondary students will attend class on alternating days, rather than in two- or three-day blocks.
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Virtual classes will now be drawn from schools across the district.
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The board will assume students are studying online if they're not told otherwise.
Question 7
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Which Ottawa city councillor announced Thursday they would be returning to the council table Sept. 8, after a lengthy absence?
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Rick Chiarelli.
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Jean Cloutier.
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Diane Deans.
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Jenna Sudds.
Question 8
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North Grenville, Ont., Mayor Nancy Peckford spoke with Ottawa Morning this week about attempts to raise $1.5 billion to address which problem facing rural eastern Ontario communities?
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Slow internet speeds.
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A lack of affordable housing.
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Gaps in inter-community transit.
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Aging infrastructure.
Question 9
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Laurel Wingrove says she's disappointed she and her colleagues at CHEO won't be eligible for extra COVID-19 pandemic pay from the province. What does she do there?
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She's a counsellor.
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She's a speech therapist.
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She's a laboratory technician.
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She's a custodian.
Question 10
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Why did Ontario Provincial Police charge a 53-year-old man from Almonte, Ont., with careless driving on Friday?
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Opp (binary/octet-stream)
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His dump truck ended up wedged beneath an overpass.
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His tanker truck crashed through a guard rail and spilled tar into a wetland.
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Garbage spilled out of his garbage truck and caught fire.
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His bus crashed into a bus stop shelter.
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