XPost: can.internet.highspeed, ont.general   
   From: eric@hardknocks.edu   
      
   Some Guy wrote...   
      
   I love quizzes!!   
      
   > 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   
      
   My guess would be:   
      
   a) some kind of award, if you did all of them at the same time, or   
   b) political office   
      
      
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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   
      
   Guess no.   
      
   > - Claiming that one's goods bear the recommendation or endorsement of   
   >   the Royal Family or any public department.   
      
   Yes.   
      
   > - 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).   
      
   Yes.   
      
   > - Pretending to practise witchcraft, sorcery, enchantment or   
   >   conjuration, undertaking to tell fortunes   
      
   Seeing as it's Ontario you're talking about, this is probably frowned   
   upon.  Guess yes.   
      
   > - 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.   
      
   Dunno   
      
   > - Making, producing, or selling anything that is intended to be used   
   >   as a substitute for the value of money.   
      
   Barter?  Yes?   
      
   > - 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)   
      
   Yes   
      
   > - Refusing to sell an item unless the buyer will also buy another   
   >   certain item (Tied Sale)   
      
   No - depends on the circumstances maybe?   
      
   > - Destroying or having knowledge of someone who has destroyed a   
   >   firearm, licensed or otherwise.   
      
   Yes   
      
   > - Advising or persuading another person to engage in bestiality.   
      
   Yes   
      
   > - Engaging in anal sex with another person.   
      
   Might still be on the books - I dunno   
      
   > - Observing, directly or indirectly (eg. via electronics) any person   
   >   who is nude or not, if for a sexual purpose.   
      
   Maybe just a Toronto law?   
      
   > - Offering and operating in an agreement with an interest rate of   
   >   more than 59% (not a fixed amount).   
      
   Yes   
      
   > - Causing to be recorded a copy of a publicly shown film.   
      
   Yes   
      
   > - The taking of video for purpose of making copies and profit.   
      
   Depends   
      
   > - Making or permitting to be made/kept a venue for cockfighting.   
      
   Maybe still on the books - maybe updated.  Yes   
      
   > - Advising someone to commit an offence that is never committed.   
      
   Sure, why not?   
      
   [I didn't look anything up]   
      
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