For your persual, a collection of official and unofficial reactions to the 30th anniversary of the repatriation of the Constitution, and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. 

All things considered, it's been a lively three decades. Here's to many more! 

To mark the occasion, the Canadian Bar Association is throwing a day-long celebration in downtown Ottawa, which will include a half-day session for high school students under the theme "Access to Justice," with a mock trial on cyber-bullying, a demonstration of the superior sniffing skills of Canada Border Services Agency canine agent Becky and a career panel. 

The highlight, however, may turn out to be the closing event:  a "flash mob" at the corner of Sparks and Metcalfe, during which "local lawyers and legal professionals" will hit the pavement to the tune of a "custom, danceable version" of O Canada that has been commissioned for the occasion. 

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As some readers are doubtless aware, the last few weeks have seen a still ongoing kerfuffle over allegations that two employees of the US-based campaign consulting firm Front Porch Strategies may have violated Canadian election law by going door-to-door with Conservative candidate Rick Dykstra during the 2011 campaign: specifically, Section 331 of the Canada Elections Act, which forbids non-residents from attempting to "induce electors" to vote for, or against, a candidate during the writ period. 

The PM embarks on a whistlestop tour of South America this morning, during which he will attend the Summit of the Americas in Colombia before heading to Chile to celebrate the fifteenth anniversary of the Canada-Chile Free Trade Agreement.  

Back on the Hill, supporters of University of Ottawa professor Hassan Diab hold a press conference to "address the reality" of the decision by Justice Minister Rob Nicholson to "hand over Canadians" like Diab to foreign states -- in this case, France -- for questioning as part of an ongoing criminal investigation, a move that the group describes as "shocking," given that France has indicated that it is not prepared to put Diab himself on trial. 

As the capital begins to pick its way through the fallout from the flurry of preliminary pink slips  -- technically, "notifications" that a position may be eliminated - that hit the public service yesterday, the president of the union that represents over 11,000 "public safety workers" at the Canada Border Services Agency -- where as many as 1,137 positions could be affected --  heads to the Hill to "ensure Canadians know the truth about the public consequences of the Harper Government's cuts to national security and public safety." 

Later this evening, "noted American journalist and constitutional lawyer" Glenn Greenwald will share his thoughts on the current state of relations between Canada and its over-the-border neighbour to the south, which will focus on "secrecy, war and civil liberties," and may or may not veer into the issue of increased cooperation -- and, more contentiously, the sharing of personal information -- between the two countries.

SOLVED! And you'll never guess whodunnit.