Oh, nothing. Just a few more selected tweets as this situation continues. Don’t mind me.

This is such performative bullshit. He did not incite violence, is no danger to anyone and you are not afraid of him in the slightest. How on earth have you persuaded yourself this is acceptable behaviour? https://t.co/7t7t41JqpN

— Andrew Coyne 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇬🇪🇲🇩 (@acoyne) September 23, 2022

Of course the moral equivalence in this case is *intentionally* lazy. By making an obviously bullshit claim of threats/incitement in this case, they plainly hope to suggest that all such claims are bullshit: that any concern about the rise in violent threats …

— Andrew Coyne 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇬🇪🇲🇩 (@acoyne) September 23, 2022

… you wouldn’t spend months and years courting their support.

— Andrew Coyne 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇬🇪🇲🇩 (@acoyne) September 23, 2022

https://twitter.com/Garossino/status/1573514485998161921

I'm sorry, but this charade has become so patently absurd that it warrants further comment.

If a metaphor has made your party feel this unsafe, then you and your fellow MPs need professional counselling, not the revocation of a journo's security credentials. #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/GWWaNJed0t

— Alheli Picazo (@a_picazo) September 23, 2022

Sometimes when I explain Canadian scandals to my US friends they give me this look of "oh cute, Canada thinks it's a real country."

As such I will not be telling them about this thing where politicians are acting like they're in mortal danger because a reporter made a horse joke

— Paul McLeod (@pdmcleod) September 23, 2022

Does this count as a threat? pic.twitter.com/o1VzO70HDi

— Dale Smith (@journo_dale) September 23, 2022

You don’t say. https://t.co/w2Dh3CCgji

— Dale Smith (@journo_dale) September 23, 2022

Ukraine Dispatch, Day 212:

Russian-occupied regions in Ukraine were subjected to sham “referendums” yesterday, to provide a paper cover that claims these regions want to “overwhelmingly join Russia,” which of course is not true and will not be internationally recognized, because everyone knows it’s a sham. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged Ukrainians in these occupied regions to undermine these sham referendums, and to share information about those caught up in said farce. Meanwhile, a UN commission of inquiry on the invasion of Ukraine has found evidence of war crimes committed in Russian-occupied areas, which should surprise no one.

it seems bizarre for russians cosplaying a “referendum” at gunpoint. but then i remember they did it in 2014 crimea (forcing my aunts to vote, too) and many abroad ate that shit up no questions asked. this bad kabuki theater of a democracy is for foreign audience only

— вареничок.eristavi 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 (@maksymeristavi) September 23, 2022

Good reads:

• Justin Trudeau met with the president of South Korea in Ottawa yesterday, talking trade and the Canada’s forthcoming Indo-Pacific strategy.
• Trudeau is also going to be delaying his trip to Japan for Shinzo Abe’s funeral until there is a sense if emergency responses are needed for Hurricane Fiona.
• Steven Guilbeault is calling on oil and gas companies to invest their record profits into decarbonization, while giving a veiled threat about windfall taxes if they don’t.
• Here is a good fact-check on the so-called “paycheque taxes” Poilievre is decrying.
• The temporary EI measures for the pandemic are winding down at the end of the month, and the full-scale modernisation of the programme is still in the works.
• A new chief justice for the Northwest Territories Supreme Court (aka superior court) has been appointed, the first Indigenous appointment to the position.
• Remember how giving all of this ship-building contracts to Irving was supposed to be a job-creation programme? Now they’re trying to recruit from the Philippines.
• Pierre Poilievre is said to be having one-on-one meetings with each of his MPs before he divvies up his critic portfolios among them.
• Oh, look—Ontario wound up with a “surprise” fiscal surplus, and still hasn’t reversed their cuts to nurses salaries, or teachers, or anything like that.
• Kevin Carmichael explores how persistent labour shortages are changing the game, and why that may have a very different effect if there is a recession on the way.
• My weekend column looks at how the government will be delivering a pre-broken dental care plan kludged out of CRA components, to meet an arbitrary deadline.

Odds and ends:

NEW: Photograph of King Charles III just released by Buckingham Palace.
It shows him working through his official red boxes of government and palace papers.
Taken in the Eighteenth Century Room at Buckingham Palace last week.
Some of the papers have been signed ‘Charles R’. pic.twitter.com/1LjkSdF2RN

— Chris Ship (@chrisshipitv) September 23, 2022

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