As we await the Auditor General’s report, due next week, we hear that he is expected to report that the National Shipbuilding Programme doesn’t have enough money to fulfil its goals. Not that this should surprise us, as the constant delays and rising inflation have driven up the costs. Because this government has clearly done their bit for the procurement file every chance they get.

It would seem that the time that Michael Sona allegedly bragged to his Conservative friends about being the culprit behind the Guelph robocalls, he was vacationing in Aruba. Sona’s lawyer is aware of the discrepancy, but won’t comment at this time. As Andrew Coyne puts it, Sona spent all that time trying to cover his tracks as Pierre Poutine and then openly bragged about it. Because that makes sense.

Conservatives minister like Chris Alexander and Peter MacKay are not fans of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford’s drug use. But somehow they seem to muster far more anger toward Justin Trudeau than they do about Ford and his enablers. Tom Clark calls out this bit of partisan hypocrisy for what it is here.

The public service spends over $110,000 per year on “instant awards” for civil servants, which includes gift cards, iPods and even jewellery.

Some very smart people, including Emmett Macfarlane, remind us that none of the proposed Senate reform plans on the table would have prevented the whole Duffy/Wallin/Brazeau/Harb stuff, nor would they have offered a remedy. But don’t let that stop Harper and company from raising their reform plans in order to play politics off of it.

Twenty-year-old cabinet files are now declassified, and show the behind-the-scenes battle over abortion laws – which were eventually killed in the Senate on a tie vote.

Pundit’s Guide casts her eye over the terrain of the four upcoming by-elections and sees a definite move from the Liberals to start reclaiming old Progressive Conservative territory, while still trying to hold onto their left flank.

And the BC NDP had an invitation to a ladies’ night event, including unserious font and a drawing of a woman in a martini glass. I fully expect Niki Ashton to stand up in the House of Commons to condemn this blatant sexism later today.