News quiz for local students 25 April 2021 at 16 h 11 min Reading time: 2 min
It’s time to test the knowledge of young people in the Townships and see who’s keeping up with the news.
The Record publishes a quiz each week with five questions related to news that appeared the week before in the paper.
Students at the elementary and high school level are invited to read through the paper to find the answers and then send them by email to our editorial team.
At the end of the month, any students who participate and answer the quiz questions will be entered into a draw to win a 16-GB Fire tablet.
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MONTREAL Teachers across Quebec bagen a strike Wednesday morning in order to pressure the government to move forward on contract negotiations, which union heads say are at an impasse. The strike has affected 58 school boards and service centres in Quebec, all of which are under the Federation of Education Unions (CSQ), and the Quebec Provincial Association of Teachers (QPAT). “Teachers are actually pretty angry,” said QPAT President Heidi Yetman, who spoke to CTV News Wednesday over chants and clanging noisemakers. “I mean they re really angry at this government that has not taken care of us during the pandemic.” The strike affects 73,000 French and English teachers across Quebec. According to QPAT, the issues being negotiated with the government include improvement to daily working conditions.
News quiz for local students 11 April 2021 at 17 h 22 min Reading time: 2 min
It’s time to test the knowledge of young people in the Townships and see who’s keeping up with the news.
The Record publishes a quiz each week with five questions related to news that appeared the week before in the paper.
Students at the elementary and high school level are invited to read through the paper to find the answers and then send them by email to our editorial team.
At the end of the month, any students who participate and answer the quiz questions will be entered into a draw to win a 16-GB Fire tablet.
New Horizons student claims The Record’s weekly quiz prize 1 April 2021 at 18 h 49 min Reading time: 1 min
Record Staff
The Record would like to thank Jacob for participating in the newspaper’s weekly news quiz for local students and congratulate the 17-year-old for winning this month’s 16-GB Amazon Fire tablet.
Jacob, a student at New Horizons, passed by The Record to pick up his prize, driving through wind and snow. He told staff members that he had some difficulty answering questions. He asked a friend to help him sift through the newspaper and locate the answers.
He ended up getting every question right. The Record posts a new quiz every Monday with questions highlighting news and features covered in the newspaper from the previous week. Keep an eye out for next week’s quiz for participation details.