Correctional Services’ own reports show that Omar Khadr is a “good kid,” non-radicalised and highly compliant, but that hasn’t stopped the government from trying to paint him as a heinous war criminal as they continue to deny journalists’ requests to interview him in prison. It looks more and more like they are trying to protect the narrative about him that they have built up for political cover.

One small charity as survived its audit by the CRA, but now faces additional translation demands – they do much of their work in Latin America, but every receipt and taxi chit they claim needs to be translated into English or French. One sees the logic, and this apparently has always been the rule, but the group is complaining that this will be a drain on their meagre resources.

The Registrar of the Supreme Court says that they’re not going to require Justice Nadon to repay any of his salary from when he was improperly appointed to the top court. That decision rests in Peter MacKay’s hand, who said that Nadon wasn’t going to have to repay anything, which is just as well as it was MacKay’s fault that the appointment was botched in the first place.

An internal audit of Aboriginal Affairs paints a pretty bleak picture of the state of the department and the intractable problems that they’re being asked to solve.

With their being a major Ebola outbreak in Africa, the Public Health Agency of Canada wants to remind us that there are no direct flights between Canada and Africa, and that they are taking steps to identify any travellers coming into Canada that appear to be sick. (Ebola isn’t airborne, so that helps limit the transmission of said disease).

Speaking of public health, here’s a look at the mediocre measures being taken by our government to deal with lyme disease.

The Law Society of BC won’t investigate former PMO lawyer Benjamin Perrin over any role that he played in the ClusterDuff affair.

Here is a look at the nomination of federal candidates more than a years in advance of the fixed election date, from the Saskatchewan perspective, where the riding redistribution was probably the most radical – and most necessary – across the country.

AFN BC Regional Chief Jody Wilson-Raybould has decided to run for the Liberals in Vancouver, and there are some grumbles that Trudeau used “moral suasion” to discourage anyone from running against her.

The NDP look to have a candidate in place for the eventual Whitby–Oshawa by-election. The Liberals have had their candidate in place for a couple of weeks now.

Online publication Blacklock’s Reporter (full disclosure: I am a regular contributor) is taking the Department of Finance to court for copyright violations after they distributed paywalled material. We could start seeing more of these kinds of cases as paywalls become more common as business models for online news.

Laura Stone has lunch with private investigator Derek Snowdy, of the Helena Guergis and “busty hookers” allegations fame.

Colby Cosh looks at the latest damning revelations about Alison Redford and her phantom passengers on government aircraft, and explains why it’s an even worse revelation than the previous ones, particularly because of the way it involves falsifying government data. Oh, and then there’s this:

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Here’s a very interesting look at the contrast between our ambassador in Israel, who is repeating government bombast on the situation in the region, and the silence of our representative to the Palestinian territories.

Kady O’Malley looks at the recent attention paid to House of Commons staffers editing Wikipedia articles.

Aaron Wherry muses about the utility of having selected members of the public ask questions directly of the Prime Minister – an idea being floated about in the UK currently – but one has to of course note that it does happen, and that those members of the public were selected by election, hence their being MPs.

I have an op-ed in today’s Ottawa Citizen which tasks candidates for the next election with actually learning about our parliamentary system before they get elected, rather than complaining after the fact that nobody explained them how it works (as they have been known to do).

And Alheli Picazo gives a stunning takedown of Ezra Levant’s attempts to fabricate controversy in Calgary around supposed Palestinian militant thugs threatening the city and its Jewish population, and shows it for what it really is.