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CBC Ottawa news quiz for the week of March 5
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1With global vaccination rates appearing to have dropped during the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Vera Etches said Monday that Ottawa Public Health was taking steps to prevent an outbreak of WHICH disease?
- AMeasles.
- BChicken pox.
- CMeningitis.
- DPolio.
2What social media platform was inaccessible as of Tuesday to federal civil servants on their work phones, due to security concerns raised by the Chief Information Officer of Canada?
- ATwitter.
- BTikTok.
- CSnapchat.
- DWeibo.
3What did Kitigan Zibi Anishinābeg Chief Dylan Whiteduck denounce this week as an example of "cultural appropriation"?
- AA cultural festival held in Gatineau.
- BOne of 2023's best-selling Canadian novels.
- CAn upscale restaurant that just opened in the ByWard Market.
- DA marketing campaign for a new Ottawa suburb.
4This work of art, designed by local muralist Jimmy Baptiste for Black History Month, was prominently displayed WHERE in the Ottawa-Gatineau area?
- AOn the National Arts Centre's Kipnes Lantern.
- BIn the great hall at the Canadian Museum of History.
- COn the construction fencing that's blocked off Parliament Hill.
- DOn the exterior of dozens of OC Transpo and STO buses.
5Some health-care advocates are concerned about a clinic operating out of The Ottawa Hospital's Riverside campus on weekends, worrying it could be a step toward the privatization of the province's health-care system. What kinds of procedures does the clinic perform?
- AHip and knee replacements.
- BBariatric surgery.
- CCataract removals and other eye surgeries.
- DColonoscopies and endoscopies.
6Police have laid 12 charges against 35-year-old Kody Crosby in connection with last month's explosion that destroyed four under-construction homes in Orléans. It's not Crosby's first run-in with police, however. What was he accused of doing in 2019, although the charges were later withdrawn?
- ABreaking into a Kanata construction site.
- BStealing $60,000 in copper wire from a hydro substation.
- CStunt driving on Highway 417.
- DDefrauding the co-owner of his boxing gym.
7Retired Mountie Yvon Mercier received a life sentence Wednesday with no chance of parole for 14 years for his role in the deaths of Pierre Dupuis and Céline Labelle. How did they all know each other?
- AThey worked together on the same RCMP task force.
- BThey'd been planning to sail around the world together.
- CDupuis and Labelle were Mercier's tenants.
- DMercier was an investor in Dupuis and Labelle's cannabis business.
8Local activists Robin Browne and Bailey Gauthier received a one-year ban from Ottawa City Hall on Wednesday after they disrupted the 2023 budget discussions. What aspect of the budget were they unhappy with?
- AThe elimination of dozens of city buses.
- BThe amount of money spent on the police force.
- CThe steps being taken to address the housing crisis.
- DFunding for snow-clearing operations.
9Coun. Shawn Menard, the chair of Ottawa's environment and climate change committee, is demanding answers after drone footage showed that workers had done WHAT on the site of the future Tewin suburb?
- ACut down hundreds of trees.
- BDumped potentially toxic waste into a creek.
- CTrapped and removed at-risk turtle species.
- DSprayed large amounts of pesticides.
10Duong Hoang, one of several owners of a 16-unit apartment building on Nelson Street, said they're still facing a financial hit several years after WHAT happened to the property?
- AA garbage truck slammed into it.
- BIt was infested by thousands of bed bugs.
- CIts roof was torn off by a tornado.
- DA tenant's meth lab exploded.
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