NewsTracker Answers for week of Jan. 27, 2025

Q: After losing a fight to stop union organizing at one Quebec warehouse, Amazon said last week it was closing all of its seven of its warehouses in the Canadian province, eliminating 1,700 jobs. Where is Quebec, Canada’s largest province by area?

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Q: Nunavut, the northernmost of Canada’s three territories, covers more area than Quebec, but it is also the least populated section of the country. What section of the country is the most populous?

A. Alberta

B. British Columbia

C. Ontario

D. Quebec

C. The province of Ontario has 16.1 million residents compared with 9 million in Quebec, 5.7 million in British Columbia, and 4.9 million in Alberta. About 80 percent of Canada’s 40 million people live within 93 miles of the border with the United States. The vast Nunavut Territory has about 41,000 people.

Q: The 240 workers at the warehouse in a Montreal suburb are not the first Amazon workers to vote to unionize. Amazon has refused to negotiate with workers who unionized a warehouse in the “Empire State” in 2022. Which state is called the Empire State?

A. California

B. New York

C. Texas

D. Washington

B. The Teamsters Union won the election at an Amazon warehouse on Staten Island, one of the five boroughs of New York City. The nickname Empire State was adopted by New York in the 1800s, The term has been attributed to the state's wealth and resources.

Q: Forbes magazines reported that billionaires worth a combined $1.35 trillion attended President Donald Trump’s inauguration last week. Which billionaire founded and runs Amazon?

A. Jeff Bezos

B. Sergey Brin

C. Elon Musk

D. Mark Zuckerberg

A. Jeff Bezos started Amazon in the 1990s as an online marketplace for books but gradually expanded its offerings to include a wide range of products. Forbes estimates Bezos’s wealth at $239.4 billion.

Q: The province of Quebec once included the area that became which state?

A. Michigan

B. Ohio

C. Wisconsin

D. All of the above

D. In 1774, the British province of Quebec included all what is now Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin and part of Minnesota. It also included most of what are now the provinces of Ontario and Newfoundland and Labrador. It extended from the Atlantic coast to the Mississippi and Ohio rivers.