The announcement came at 10 PM on the Friday before a long weekend – in other words, trying to bury it. That announcement? That Conservative MP Eve Adams is bowing out of the Oakville North–Burlington nomination race in order to “focus on her health,” as she hasn’t been following her doctor’s orders about slowing down to focus on recovering from the concussion she received earlier in the year. Or at least, that’s the official excuse, but one has to wonder if it was because she found out that she was about to be disqualified after the shenanigans that she and her opponent accused one another of in the acrimonious nomination race. No word if she plans to run in her current riding (where speculation was she didn’t want to run again because she would be back up against a popular former Liberal MP who wouldn’t be impeded by the Orange Wave this time), or if this is her quietly bowing out of federal politics after 2015 entirely.

The head of CSE is using the National Research Council hacks to point to his agency’s valuable role in protecting cyber-infrastructure, especially as government systems are always under constant probing by hackers around the world.

A prominent and well-respected Ontario judge has struck down the mandatory victim surcharge as it disproportionately affects poor convicts, making their sentences disproportional in general. One can expect more federal government denouncements and Conservative Party fundraisers decrying judicial activism any moment now…

Aboriginal Affairs minister Bernard Valcourt is not happy with the revelation that one First Nations chief made nearly a million dollars last year, but notes that it’s up to the band to determine whether they feel that kind of compensation for their leadership is reasonable.

Peter MacKay is skipping the annual conference of the Canadian Bar Association – possibly the first time any Attorney General has ever done so. Apparently it was a “scheduling conflict,” but one wonders if MacKay simply wanted to avoid a hostile room after all of the many controversies of his government’s own making.

The government has been spending less on public opinion research than it used to, and that they have been keeping from releasing some of that information publicly for up to six months. Is it that they don’t want to hear what Canadians think of their legislation or priorities?

Now online is Nick Taylor-Vaisey’s look at the slow crisis that our navy is facing, from restrained budgets, an aging fleet rusting out, a lumbering procurement process that is far more complex than any other in the Canadian Forces, and a military leadership that is still focused on Afghanistan and not the realities of the modern Royal Canadian Navy and its needs. He follows-up more on it here.

PEN Canada has a timeline of their attempts to find out what constitutes “political activity” by charities according to CRA guidelines – which was futile, and ended up with them receiving a notice that they were due to be audited.

The Commons Speaker is launching an investigation into all of those Wikipedia edits being made on House of Commons computers.

Those contentious Mother’s Day and Father’s Day messages that Peter MacKay sent out to his department got high-level approval from the whole food chain in the department, including officials in MacKay’s Office – and that when they were reported, the department scrambled to ensure that they weren’t rogue messages that they would have to explain.

Conservative MP John Williamson, noted critic of “corporate welfare,” has been caught out at government announcements giving money to businesses, trying to deny it when he was challenged with his attendance, then backtracking on his denials when he was called out on them. No, seriously.

Economist Mike Moffatt looks at how by just how much the US is outpacing Canada when it comes to job creation.

Aaron Wherry’s Frank Talk™ series continues with a discussion on the IMF report on carbon pricing.

Glen McGregor notes the similarity between one tour guide on the Hill with luscious brown locks, and a certain Liberal party leader.

And Sonya Bell and Jessie Willms imagine Stephen Harper’s pro and con list for appointing new Senators now that the vacancy list is sitting at 13.

Programming note: I’m in vacation mode for the next week, so don’t expect any daily political roundup posts for the duration.