XPost: can.internet.highspeed, ont.general   
   From: Some@Guy.com   
      
   What are you still eligible for in Ontario, even if you have been   
   convicted previously for one of the following offences:   
      
   - Being a member of an unlawful assembly   
   - Engaging in a prize fight   
   - Carrying a weapon while attending a public meeting   
   - Personating (IMpersonating?) a peace officer   
   - Making a false statement under oath or affirmation   
   - Committing an indecent act   
   - Causing a disturbance, an indecent exhibition or loitering   
   - Disturbing a religious worship   
   - Trespassing at night   
   - Possessing or using a volatile substance   
   - Transporting a person to a bawdy house   
   - Taking a motor vehicle without consent of owner   
   - Being a vagrant   
   - Being found in a gaming / betting house   
   - Being found in a bawdy house   
   - Trading in lumbering equipment without consent of owner   
   - Fraudulently obtaining food, beverage or accommodation   
   - Pretending to practice witchcraft (as opposed to not pretending?)   
   - Making indecent or repeated telephone calls   
   - Obtaining transportation fraudulently   
   - Conspiring to commit a summary conviction offence   
   - Stopping a person or vehicle of the purpose of engaging in   
     prostititution   
   - Failing to keep watch while towing a person on water skis / surfboard   
   - Counselling a person to commit a summary conviction offence that is   
     not committed   
   - Attempting to commit or being an accessory to the commission of a   
     summary conviction offence   
   - Buying or receiving a lot, ticket, or other device in an unlawful   
     lottery or game of chance   
   - Possession of Marijuana, 30 gms or less, or cannabis resin, 1 gm or   
     less   
      
   What are you still eligible for even if you've been convicted of one of   
   the above?   
      
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   Bonus questions:   
      
   The following are (or are not) criminal code violations in Ontario?   
      
   - Offering a "no questions asked" reward for the return of lost or   
     stolen goods   
      
   - Claiming that one's goods bear the recommendation or endorsement of   
     the Royal Family or any public department.   
      
   - Wearing a uniform, a distinctive marking, a certificate of membership   
     or of discharge, or a commission or warrant relating to the military   
     that is not one's own (eg - military uniform).   
      
   - Pretending to practise witchcraft, sorcery, enchantment or   
     conjuration, undertaking to tell fortunes   
      
   - Disposing of, selling, giving, offering, or issuing trading stamps   
     to any merchant or dealer for use in one's own business, or doing   
     so through an agent, Using, giving or passing along a trade stamp.   
      
   - Making, producing, or selling anything that is intended to be used   
     as a substitute for the value of money.   
      
   - An employer refusing to hire, or threatening, intimidating or   
     initiating any such action for the sole reason of that person's   
     membership in a union (Refusal to employ for reason of membership   
     in union)   
      
   - Refusing to sell an item unless the buyer will also buy another   
     certain item (Tied Sale)   
      
   - Destroying or having knowledge of someone who has destroyed a   
     firearm, licensed or otherwise.   
      
   - Advising or persuading another person to engage in bestiality.   
      
   - Engaging in anal sex with another person.   
      
   - Observing, directly or indirectly (eg. via electronics) any person   
     who is nude or not, if for a sexual purpose.   
      
   - Offering and operating in an agreement with an interest rate of   
     more than 59% (not a fixed amount).   
      
   - Causing to be recorded a copy of a publicly shown film.   
      
   - The taking of video for purpose of making copies and profit.   
      
   - Making or permitting to be made/kept a venue for cockfighting.   
      
   - Advising someone to commit an offence that is never committed.   
      
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