In the event you have been cut off from the news cycle, I became the story yesterday as MP Garnett Genuis raised a point of privilege, and said that I made him feel “unsafe.” While I won’t comment much further until the Speaker makes a ruling on this, I have selected a few tweets from the day about the incident.

https://twitter.com/EmmMacfarlane/status/1573021640413548545

https://twitter.com/EmmMacfarlane/status/1573043603072765952

https://twitter.com/EmmMacfarlane/status/1573056388770988032

The MP's complaint is such a gross distortion of @journo_dale 's tweet it's sickening. Sometimes I look at the difference in debate in early 80s hansard, compared to the cesspit of today's Parliament and wonder why we all seem not only to stand but condone it w/ our votes. https://t.co/eHT2STYla9

— Kerri Froc (@KerriFroc) September 22, 2022

One cannot be violent towards an *idea*. The suggestion the @journo_dale was advocating violence towards a person is absurd and the PPG should disassociate itself from the absurd position put forward by @StPierreGu https://t.co/YJmC4fXkww

— Robert Glasgow (@TheTradeLawGuy) September 22, 2022

The irony of the snowflakes asking for a safe space. So much projection. https://t.co/e78RoOVmWd

— Steve Saideman (@smsaideman) September 22, 2022

https://twitter.com/Garossino/status/1573056918389948416

https://twitter.com/Garossino/status/1573058396278099970

lol no it shows y’all need to enter phylum chordata with the rest of us.

even if you think Dale’s joke was in fact directed at a particular person/generally irresponsible, this entire campaign against him has been ginned up by a professional shitposting proxy for the CPC https://t.co/nV92IDHdoI

— Supriya Dwivedi (@supriyadwivedi) September 22, 2022

He didn’t threaten you, you preposterous fraud. https://t.co/w9iC3f5oto

— Andrew Coyne 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇬🇪🇲🇩 (@acoyne) September 22, 2022

https://twitter.com/dgardner/status/1573087699262918656

Ukraine Dispatch, Day 211:

While the operational pause on Ukraine’s counterattack continues, they have been engaged in recovering bodies that have been unburied for months from earlier in the invasion. It also looks like a high-profile prisoner swap has been arranged, that will include some of the defenders of Mariupol.

Good reads:

• Mélanie Joly says she’s not in favour of a Russian visa ban, because it will trap dissidents and those avoiding being conscripted to fight in Ukraine.
• Steven Guilbeault says Canada doesn’t need a windfall tax on energy companies because we already have a carbon price and strong regulations.
• Sources™ say the government is going to lift border restrictions and make use of ArriveCan optional, but are still undecided on mask mandates for planes and trains.
• The government has named career diplomat Jennifer May as the new ambassador to China, nine months after Dominic Barton’s resignation.
• The planned statutory review of cannabis legalisation is finally getting underway, a year late, with an expert panel to be named soon.
• A Commons committee looked into the costs of the catering on the Governor General’s trip to the Middle East, and lo, catering monopolies charge a lot of money.
• Stephanie Carvin examines whether or not we’re really seeing a cyber war in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
• Heather Scoffield ponders the decline in home ownership shown in census data.
• Susan Delacourt remarks on the first QP showdown between Poilievre and Trudeau as the fireworks that weren’t, and sees that as maybe not a bad thing.

Odds and ends:

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