Conservative MP Eve Adams says she did not try to pull rank on the RCMP officer and paid her ticket immediately.

New Brunswick's Grace Foundation spent $3.2-million on management and administration in 2012 compared to $2.3-million on its charitable programs, according to Revenue Canada report.

Despite an embarrassing and politically-damaging incident between NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair and RCMP officers responsible for Parliament Hill security on Thursday morning, the party refused to go along with the Conservatives and Liberals to adjourn early for the summer recess and end House proceedings that had become as confrontational as any in the current session of Parliament.

Liberals were indicating on Wednesday they were ready to end one of the most intense series of Commons sittings since the Conservatives took power in 2006, and also pointed out that, because of the government midnight-sitting strategy and its time allocation tactics, there did not appear to be a lot left to do.

The past law clerk to the House of Commons says MPs can vote to suspend two Conservative MPs for failing to comply with a request from Chief Electoral Office Marc Mayrand to correct their campaign returns from the 2011 general election, regardless of whether House Speaker Andrew Scheer tables letters from Mr. Mayrand alerting him to the fact that the MPs are in breach of the Canada Elections Act.

Commons Speaker Andrew Scheer is keeping his options open on a confrontation between Elections Canada and two Manitoba Conservative MPs over thousands of dollars in 2011 election campaign expenses that would put both of them over their campaign spending limit, and which could result in suspension of the MPs from House voting and proceedings at least until after court challenges they have filed are heard.

Elections Canada says an election campaign expense transaction that allowed Conservative Senator Don Plett to pay $945 in air travel costs for Conservative Senator Linda Frum to fly from Toronto to Winnipeg to campaign for Conservative MP Joyce Bateman in the 2011 general election, is acceptable within strict rules for the reporting of candidate expenses.

Senator Pamela Wallin charged Saskatchewan Conservative MP Ray Boughen for only one-fifth of $830.36 in car rental cost she incurred when she travelled to Moose Jaw, Sask., to campaign for Mr. Boughen’s re-election in 2011, Mr. Boughen’s campaign expense return to Elections Canada shows.

The Harper Cabinet has until mid-2014 to make a decision on the F-35 fighter jets, either to sign an initial contract for the first batch of four of the stealth fighters for delivery to Canada in 2017, or to delay it, or drop the plan entirely.

The Western Arctic Conservative candidate whose 2011 election campaign featured star appearances by Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Sen. Mike Duffy, under scrutiny for allegedly claiming Senate expenses at the same time he was campaigning for the Conservatives, is now on the public payroll as a regional director for Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq in Yellowknife, N.W.T.

An election expense invoice of only $209 Senator Mike Duffy submitted to Western Arctic Conservative candidate Sandy Lee, when he flew from Ottawa through Toronto to Yellowknife to campaign for Ms. Lee in the 2011 general election, indicates the Conservative Party may have absorbed selected Conservative candidate campaign costs so the candidates would not exceed Elections Canada spending limits.