News Quiz Nov. 14 | What day is it?

It’s time again for a news quiz. Come on in and test your knowledge of current events.

1. Silu’s Taxi in Rankin Inlet recently announced it would no longer operate. Aside from giving rides, what charitable activity did the company help with?

A. It operated as a medical transport service for patients flying south for health-care appointments.
B. The company hosted mechanic workshops to teach students the trade when its vehicles needed repair.
C. The company helped facilitate pizza deliveries to Leo Ussak Elementary School to celebrate the last day of classes.

2. What did Kuujjuaq commemorate this week with its Path to 100 festival?

A. Remembrance Day
B. The anniversary of the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement
C. One-hundred years of Winnie the Pooh

3. What did people come together to celebrate Saturday at Annie Pootogook Park in Ottawa?

A. International Inuit Day
B. Bison Day
C. National Bittersweet Chocolate with Almonds Day

4. Critics of the way Nunavut handles foster care point to an Indigenous-led method of family services that has worked for decades in which jurisdiction?

A. Alaska
B. Hawaii
C. Puerto Rico

5. Northern store’s security guards in Iqaluit look a little different these days. What has changed?

A. They dress for holidays throughout the year in an effort to spread cheer.
B. They are in tactical gear, including body cameras and carry what appear to be retractable batons.
C. The store is employing robot security guards now.

What are these two celebrating Saturday at Annie Pootoogook Park in Ottawa? (File photo by Nehaa Bimal)

Answers:

1. C — Silu’s Taxi did more than offer rides for money. The company also partnered with Slap Shot Canteen to deliver pizzas to Leo Ussak School to celebrate the final day of classes.

2. B — The festival, hosted in Kuujjuaq from Sunday to Wednesday, commemorates the anniversary of the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement by using art to imagine a path forward.

3. A — This one should be a gimme. People gathered at Annie Pootoogook Park to celebrate National Inuit Day with sealskin tents, music and traditional food. Bison Day and National Bittersweet Chocolate with Almonds Day are apparently real, though. Nov. 7 was also Little League Girls Day, National Learn to Homebrew Day and National Canine Lymphoma Awareness Day.

4. B — Women’s advocate Arlene Hache told Nunatsiaq News she was invited to share information about Hawaii’s community-based approach to foster care. “It wasn’t like it was radical or new,” Hache said of the idea. “But everything in the North is radical and new if it’s not colonial.” For now, the Department of Family Services isn’t looking to reinvent the wheel. It’s focusing on getting its staff trained on its online information management system.

5. B — Some of Northern store’s guards are now geared up with tactical vests, body cameras and what appear to be batons. Nunatsiaq News asked about the batons but a manager with Canadian Arctic Protective Services declined to comment.