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Author Tarantino, Bob.

Title Under arrest : Canadian laws you won't believe / by Bob Tarantino.

Publication Info. Toronto [Ont.] : Dundurn, 2007.

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Description 1 online resource (221 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Psst, Wanna Buy a Comic Book?; 2 A Gun Fight at High Noon? Too Uncivilized; 3 Saying Bad Things About People in Power -- Crimes Against the State; 4 Keep Your Pants On; 5 Blasphemous Pirates in Space; 6 Race, Religion, and the Law; 7 It Doesn't Take a Thief -- Or, Not All the Interesting Stuff Happens in Criminal Court; 8 Most Foul; 9 Of Poppies and Red Crosses; Notes; Recommended Further Reading.
Summary Did you know that Canada's Criminal Code still has provisions outlawing the practice of witchcraft and "crafty sciences"? Did you know that blasphemy is a crime in Canada? And did you know that putting a picture of a red poppy on your website could get you in trouble with the Royal Canadian Legion?Lawyer and author Bob Tarantino takes readers on an entertaining and informative romp through Canada's legal labyrinths in a book that spotlights the country's past and present strange-but-true laws and legal history. He examines odd statutes and arcane jurisprudence across the spectrum of Canadian e.
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Subject Law -- Canada -- Miscellanea.
Law.
Canada.
Genre/Form Trivia and miscellanea.
Subject Law -- Canada -- History -- Miscellanea.
History.
Law -- Social aspects -- Canada -- History -- Miscellanea.
Law -- Social aspects.
Law -- Canada -- Popular works.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books -- History -- Miscellanea.
History.
Electronic books.
Subject Law.
Genre/Form Trivia and miscellanea.
Other Form: Print version: Tarantino, Bob. Under arrest. Toronto : Dundurn Press, 2007 9781550027037 1550027034 (OCoLC)141385064
ISBN 9781550028911 (electronic book)
155002891X (electronic book)
9781459718258 (electronic book)
1459718259 (electronic book)
9781550027037
1550027034