Since I might have to give legal advice on this stuff, I decided I better parse it all out on Twitter, because that's the best way to understand law. So here goes.

1. You can't ski in Ontario but you can ski in Quebec but only downhill because NCC doesn't want you X-countrying.

2. You must isolate for 14 days each time you cross a provincial border but, it appears, not if you're going to Quebec to ski or if you're coming to Ontario from Quebec to work. But you should not go to Quebec to work, just to ski.

3. If you do go to Quebec to ski, you better be back across the interprovincial border by 8 p.m. or you face a fine for breaking curfew that appears to run between $561 and $3,000 depending on who's ticketing. You may want to hide in an ice fishing hut.

4. In Ontario, you can rent or set up a hut to ice-fish and spend the day inside that nice, steamy, warm hut with your friends. But you can't stay overnight in that hut, even if you are fishing by yourself. You can in Quebec.

5. You can go to Quebe to ice-fish day or night and in tehb daytime to downhill ski but you better have real snow tires because all-season radials are illegal there.

6. If you decide to bring pot on your adventures, and you're between 19 and 21 and headed to Quebec to spend the night ice-fishing or the day on the slopes but not on the trails, forget it because the pot-smoking age in Quebec is 21, though if you're 18, you can buy some booze.

7. Now, you won't have any problem getting pot in Ontario because the sale of marijuana is an essential service. Three years ago, selling marijuana put you at serious risk of going to jail.

8. You might want to get a Covid test. The Ontario government encourages you to get a Covid test. But you should only go for a Covid test if you show symptoms which can be just about anything with Covid, and you could be an asymptomatic super-spreader.

But do NOT go to a drug store to get medicine to relieve the symptoms. Do NOT go to a doctor or an emergency ward unless you're showing signs of dying. Call the government help line so they can tell you to stay home unless you belong in an ICU.

9. You are required to stay home unless you have important business outside your house. That might include visiting four of your friends in someone's backyard or going ice fishing, as long as you don't stay overnight.

10. You should not leave your home for non-essential shopping (i.e. buying food, booze, weed) but stores selling non-essential things can be open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. under "reduced hour" rules for your convenience and their survival.

11. Skating on the Rideau Canal is allowed and presumably safe, as long as you live in the Glebe, parts of Centretown, the east parts of Old Ottawa South, most of new Ottawa South, or are living at Carleton University, which has classes online but students living in residence.

12. Skating anywhere else may be illegal, depending on how hungry your bylaw enforcers are. It is unlikely you will be charged with playing basketball alone in the park while Black. But you better pay the fine from the spring or you may not be able to get a license plate sticker.

13. You will need that license sticker if you are going to Quebec to ski or spend the night in an ice hut (though, of course, leaving that ice hut to pee may put you at risk of a $3,000 fine for breaking curfew). Fine for no sticker is $140 in Ontario, $481 in Quebec.

14. You cannot renew the sticker. The offices are closed. It is unclear if you can renew them by mail. License stickers are not essential. Explain all this to a SQ officer on the side of Highway 5 as he's writing your ticket and calling a tow truck. Ski home before dark.

I hope this clarifies the rules and regulations. This thread was inspired by my smart-ass sister @maryannem_ , who saw the absurdity of the ice fishing rules and began a facebook conversation on this topic.

BTW, do not use a toboggan to get to your ice hut for daytime fishing or to the Rideau Canal if you geographically qualify to be on it. Tobogganing is illegal.