Shelly Glover, police officer “on leave and planning to return to it once she’s out of politics,” is currently peddling in hysterics and trading upon her time as a police officer that worked undercover on the prostitution beat. Glover says that the laws that were struck down will make it more difficult for police to help exploited women and children – err, except that the laws against human trafficking and child exploitation remain in effect. The laws that were struck down were the ones that made women in those situations be afraid to go to the police for fear of self-incrimination, which seems like a bigger deal than police using those laws to arrest those same women, criminalise them, and hope that it might instead put them in touch with social services agencies while they were locked up. And then there’s her caucus colleague, Joy Smith, who a) doesn’t actually read the literature on the Nordic Model of prostitution laws except for the ones that are devoid of fact and tell her what she wants to hear, and b) conflates all sex work with human trafficking, and all human trafficking with sexual exploitation, which anyone with an inkling of how things work can tell you is a gross overreach. I’m glad that Smith thinks that it’s easy enough to criminalise the buyers of sex to curb demand – because that totally worked with things like alcohol during the prohibition era or illicit drugs today, right, and criminalising those very same drug users is totally saving lives in places like Vancouver’s Lower East Side, right? Oh, wait… Terri Jean Bedford, one of the plaintiffs in the case, says that any new laws need to take consenting adults into account, which may be difficult when faced with an ideology that the exchange of sex for money is inherently bad (while ignoring the other transactions for sex that occur as part of everyday dating and marriage). CBC looks at five questions arising from the Supreme Court decision.

The Canada West Foundation is giving up hope that Senate reform could ever happen because the bar is set too high. OH NOES! Maybe they’ll have to start engaging with politics in reality rather than the fantasy version they’ve created for themselves. Also, this line that they don’t think the public has an appetite for an appointed body making fundamental policy decisions – does that mean they to abolish or elect the Supreme Court as well? Because they make fundamental policy decisions too. Meanwhile, the Territories are looking to have their own voices heard when it comes to Senate reform or abolition proposals – currently they have no formal voice at the table, but would be hardest hit as their representation would be halved in the case of abolition. My column this week looks at the issue of vacant Senate seats.

The expansion of commercial medical marijuana operations is commencing thanks to Health Canada’s new rules, but concerns over prices remain, especially for those on disability.

Video simulation and commercially available first-person-shooter games are likely going to start playing a bigger role in training Canadian Forces, considering the cuts to their training budgets that are coming down the pipe. Of course, nothing can compare to actual rugged live-fire exercises, which will still take place.

The Royal Canadian Navy has put out a call for tender for 180,000 pairs of underwear that have to have good moisture management and won’t fuse to skin if exposed to fire.

Canada Post wants to standardise rural mailboxes in order to reduce costs and injury for rural delivery.

The Public Health Agency of Canada is set to begin a new round of consultations on suicide prevention, but opposition MPs are starting to feel like there’s plenty of talk but no action, including new funds for the provinces to create programmes.

Lee Berthiaume talks to the Ambassador of Religious Freedom, who says that he sometimes gets “pushback” from foreign governments, and wouldn’t you know, most of the interventions he’s done so far have been about persecuted Christians across the world. Hands up anyone who’s surprised.

In Ontario, the laws that prohibit partisan government advertising have a big loophole – online ads. The governing Liberals say they’re to look at closing that loophole, but the opposition parties are saying that the Liberals are in no hurry.

Laura Payton shows us five things you may not know about Parliament Hill.

Susan Delacourt looks at the five days in May that set the tone for the rest of 2013 in Canadian politics, to the theme of Blue Rodeo.

And former Prime Minister Kim Campbell tweets her recipe for cranberry sauce, which is both endearing and awesome.