Tons of input here! 

BB, I did my bar ads in 2008.  The only classroom time we had were the professional responsibility lessons (like 4 weeks).  For the rest, LSUC gave us 4 big books (2 barristers and 2 solicitors).  We learned on our own (I teamed up with a buddy).  Barristers exam (8 hours) was 6 weeks after we got the materials and the solicitors exam (8 hours too) was 3 or 4 weeks after the barrister exam.  With a 97% passing rate, I passed on first try - oddly enough I met a number of people who failed which made me wonder about the accuracy of the 97% statistic.

I'm too lazy to look, but what happens if you surrender your license?  If you want to practice in ON again, you have to go through the bar ads crap again?

"Not me. I'm going viking style with all my meagre possessions and savings put around my body in a boat then torched. I figure the residual alcohol content will mean fireball on ignition." - the great Minister of Love