Duelling is a crime anywhere in Canada. You may not "provoke another person to fight a duel," or accept the challenge. You could face up to two years in jail. (The musketeers would have to put down their swords and pistols if they lived in Canada.)
Chicken <-- Egg <-- Rocket Powered Fist Take that, science!
Stella: No, you can slap someone with a glove, you just can't challenge them to a duel with it.
Moral conduct was dictated by bylaws in the late 1800s, and some of it still is. For example, a bylaw passed in 1864 made it an offence to "utter any profane oath, or obscene, blasphemous or grossly insulting language, or to commit any other immorality or indecency in any street, highway, or other public places" in York and Peel countries. It's still an offence to swear or insult someone in any of Ontario's provincial parks. (But people still do it anyway.)
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It's illegal to name a store or anything for sale "Parliament Hill." That name is reserved for the part of Ottawa where the parliament buildings are located. This crime carries a pretty stiff fine - up to $2,000, or up to six months in jail.
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Some of these make sense. Some of them make me wonder what kind of people make laws, if they can come up with restrictions like these. It denotes a mad mind.
"TV makes sense. It has logic, structure, rules, and likeable leading men. In life, we have this. We have you." -Abed Nadir
I wondered why we put villains in our stories when we have plenty of them in real life; then I realized that maybe we wanted stories where the good guy wins. — nogutsnoglory
Some of them make me wonder what kind of people make laws, if they can come up with restrictions like these. It denotes a mad mind. 
