The tale of Eve Adams and her nomination race got even more sordid yesterday as all kinds of other allegations started appearing out of the woodwork, now that attention is being paid to her. First came word that the riding association was appealing directly to Harper to investigate her activities, with regard to things like her access to the party database, her purchasing the colour-coded maps, that she was door-knocking and telling people that she had been asked by Harper to run in that particular riding, and generally trying to bigfoot the nomination race. (Letter here). Harper in turn asked the party to investigate. After this was made public, the owner of an Ottawa gas station called the media to let them know that he had also asked the PMO to investigate Adams’ behaviour after she had a meltdown tantrum over a $6 carwash that she was unsatisfied with. It has been suggested that all of these leaks are being made public in order to have her discredited and lose the nomination race that way, rather than have Harper or the party disqualify her from afar. It’s not such an outlandish theory either.

Despite indications yesterday that he might be open to amendments, Pierre Poilievre insisted today that the Fair Elections Act is already pretty terrific. Thomas Mulcair took the classy route and called Poilievre smarmy. And the Senate is going ahead with a pre-study of the bill at the insistence of the Conservatives, as they want the bill passed both chambers by the end of June, but as mentioned, there are Conservative senators like Janis Johnson who are cool to the bill in its current incarnation.

The diversity of opinions among police chiefs across the country on the topic of what to do about prostitution laws creates a problem for the government, as you have chiefs who want it legalised, and others who want it completely criminalised. While some of them want laws with the sole purpose of being able to pull vulnerable women out of exploitative situations, there remains the main caution that there is no guarantee how they will be enforced and that they won’t be used to harass women who are legitimately doing sex work voluntarily.

The Royal Canadian Air Force wants to hire a retired senior officer to deal with their 75 honorary colonels – high profile Canadians who are given the title and who foster public support and morale for the RCAF. Of course, the cost of such a position, especially at a high rank, is being questioned at a time of cutbacks and layoffs. (And really – 75 honorary colonels? Doesn’t that seem like an awful lot?)

Speaking of cutbacks at the military, families of fallen soldiers are being asked to pay their own way to attend a national commemoration ceremony in Ottawa. Seriously.

HMCS Iroquois has stress fractures in her hull and won’t be able to manoeuvre in rough seas, depriving us of one of our few destroyers. And let us not forget that the procurement process for replacing said destroyers are years delayed, which further limits the effectiveness of our navy.

Statistics Canada says that 18 percent of young workers are overqualified for their jobs. But hey, we need to increase our post-secondary completion rates.

The deputy minister of finance has resigned, leaving another hole in Harper’s financial team and will likely trigger another deputy minister shuffle.

Pakistan is hitting back after Chris Alexander called the country a state sponsor of terror on national television. (Remember when Alexander used to be a diplomat?)

Energy economist Andrew Leach will be testifying at the Natural Resources Committee today, and previews his remarks here.

By way of Order Paper questions, Irwin Cotler is trying to get the Prime Minister to explain his claims about the Justice Nadon appointment process and the support he claims it had.

Putative NDP candidate in Trinity–Spadina, Joe Cressy, has made a climb-down on his statements about development of the oilsands (that they have no place in the Canadian economy), and says that his “approach has changed.” What is possibly more remarkable was the way in which Thomas Mulcair handled it in a press scrum, telling the reporter to email his press secretary and walking away. Liberal partisans put out this gem just to rub it in.

And Paul Wells won the Shaugnessy Cohen Prize for his book The Longer I’m Prime Minister. Well done, Paul!