Marcello Di Cintio

I've seen a lot of misinformation and confusion about Canada's migrant labour policies since Monday's vote in Alberta. At the risk of seeming opportunistic, I encourage anyone wanting to understand more about these policies, past and present, to read Precarious: The Lives of Migrant Workers.

Tonight I swam my 500th kilometre of the year thanks for asking.

Maybe stop bitching about your own little problems for a second and help me find out where my wife hid the goddamn Halloween candy.

I love your work, @kathleenpetty.bsky.social, but on yesterday’s podcast you let Smith get away with saying her supporters are “concerned about young children being transgendered behind their parents’ backs.” This hateful garbage needs to be challenged, especially when smoothly coming from Premier.

Gather ‘round, kids, let me tell you a story. There was a time when there would be a saxophone solo before the guitar solo, and it made everybody very, very happy. People are gonna tell you not to do drugs but I don’t know, man. I don’t know

First they used the notwithstanding clause to override fundamental human rights. Next they came for library books. Now they are banning Pride flags. This is not how democracies operate. www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...

Older gentleman, after sharing a lane with me at the pool: You swim like a shark. Me: Thanks. You’re being kind. Him: A baby shark.

An appropriately angry letter from Andrew Nikiforuk, in @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...

Rowling *never* writes about women’s rights, workplace discrimination or the threats to women from predatory men. I tracked her posts for five months: Well over 200 hateful transphobic smears. Not a single post about women’s actual concerns or needs None

Enough with the chilli honey already!

And Albertans also give skinny Thanos permission to leave Canada if he’s so aggrieved and disappointed.

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Interesting comment by Janet Brown (pollster goddess) on CBC this morning: Only 40% voted for 1-9. Her initial analysis is that people took the “No to the nine” as “say no to voting for the nine” 😮

Not surprised on the immigration questions, sadly. Nobody other than Carter really campaigned aggressively there. Imagine if the Alberta NDP had?

The separatists trying to frame their 24% as a victory are the same guys whose mommies told them the Fs on their report cards stood for “Fantastic.”

Shameful results on the other nine. At least so far. results.elections.ab.ca/8400

The honey farmer in this clip has legitimate worries that if the immigration referendum questions pass he’ll face a crippling labour shortage. At the same time, he has an Alberta independence sign at the entry to his farm. Dude. www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

The separatists are going to lose today’s vote. But if Alberta’s political class doesn’t stop feeding and inflaming their bottomless sense of grievance and victimhood, we’ll all end up losing in the end. #abpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2026/10/19/o...

i want attention, but don't have anything of value to say. you can see the bind i'm in!

Great video on an equally important part of these referendum questions. Vote #notothenine and #yestoCanada Monday is election day. Vote if you haven’t already!

We get the same tax revenue from selling other wines, genius.

Pfft. Wake me when each voter there getz handed a stack of 10 ballots all at once for 10 ballot boxes, you slackass British Columbia hippies

Danielle Smith crafted her nine questions as easy winners on her referendum ballot. She surely expected the wall of opposition, esp. on cutting services for some immigrants — but what about the pushback and indifference on her own side? By me: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

All lanes are Alberta provincial government lanes

Imagine hating being a parent this much.

Must be immigrants’ fault and not your government’s incompetence, right Premier?

Poor Jeffy. 😢 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Make Alberta America again? The fantastic Globe crew unearths even deeper ties between Alberta separatists and Republican officials, including a pledge to give the U.S. some of our resources in exchange for backing sovereignty www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

This is excellent. www.cbc.ca/listen/live-... www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

NEW: In the @thestar.com, I wrote about how the most dangerous aspect of Alberta’s October referendum is the scapegoating of migrants for the province’s overcrowded schools and hospitals. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

I saw NAZA today at the Calgary International Film Festival. Nobody who’s paid any attention to Israel’s wars on Gaza will be surprised by the revelations in the film. But to hear 24 IDF soldiers coldly describe the systematic and intentional massacre of Palestinian civilians hits differently.

Google Maps updated its satellite images of Gaza. I recommend checking it out to see the annihilation wrought from Israel "defending itself." maps.app.goo.gl/jNBaTPkYUfXY...

Alberta Separatists unveil development slogan: “Come Invest in our unstable breakaway republic!”

Shameful and disappointing. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

I woke up to happy news. Precarious made the shortlist for the @jwdafoebookprize.bsky.social. My son asked if the prize was named in honour of the actor who played The Green Goblin in the Spider-Man movies. I said yes.

It takes a special kind of bigotry... To read the definition of hate speech and follow it up by saying "I'm going to take it to another level"... Before launching into an appalling attack on an entire religion. But Alberta Separatists are apparently up to that task. #abpoli

bizarre to me that so much reporting on housing fails to interrogate the assumptions that homeowners (1) should always get to approve of changes to their neighbourhood (2) should be protected by government from any possible decline in property values www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Today is the last day to request a special ballot (mail-in) for the referendum. Election day will be a complete mess, so avoid the lines and vote by mail. specialballot.elections.ab.ca/index/8400

My transcription software keeps transcribing "Crowsnest Pass" as "Christmas past" and I smile every time.

And the media should treat as such. The separatist leaders are loons and grifters. Giving a platform to folks who think the King of England is scheming to assassinate them and people who have "allegedly" stolen millions of dollars from First Nations is dangerous.

“Sylvestre also says he’s on the record a hundred times saying he does not want to start an Alberta separatist party and wants nothing to do with a new party.” Separatists are inherently lazy. Going the Quebec route by starting a party and winning an election is too much work for these grifters.