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Marcello Di Cintio

@marcellodicintio.bsky.social
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I am a journalist and author of six books, including Precarious: The Lives of Migrant Workers, Driven: The Secret Life of Taxi Drivers, and Pay No Heed to the Rockets: Palestine in the Present Tense.🍉🇵🇸

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Jeremy Appel 🍉 @readtheorchard.org · 6h
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...
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The most worrying part of the Alberta referendum isn’t separatism
Nine questions are about immigration and immigrants.
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Marcello Di Cintio @marcellodicintio.bsky.social · 22h
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.
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A Dave you know you know @notjustdave.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Just to tie this into Alberta at this very moment, the Cargill workers that Kenney's UCP treated as expendable are exactly the foreign workers that Smith's UCP wants to charge $1,900 a year to access health care, even though these workers pay taxes from the minute they start working.
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Marcello Di Cintio @marcellodicintio.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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...
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 28/09/2026
Alberta Separatists unveil development slogan: “Come Invest in our unstable breakaway republic!”
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Alberta Separatists unveil development slogan “Come Invest in our unstable breakaway republic!”
CALGARY - With the Alberta Separatism referendum fast approaching, pro-separatist groups have launched a new campaign to entice investment dollars to their chaotic barely-planned idea for a country.
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Marcello Di Cintio @marcellodicintio.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Shameful and disappointing. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Liberal MP says he was demoted for supporting NDP bill targeting arms export controls | CBC News
Charlottetown MP Sean Casey says he was removed from his position as parliamentary secretary to the minister of veterans affairs because he voted against the government and supported an NDP private me...
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Marcello Di Cintio @marcellodicintio.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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.
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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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
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Michelle Cyca @michellecyca.com · 25/09/2026
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/...
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Toronto needs more homes. These neighbours say they're paying the price | CBC News
An elderly downtown couple says they’re shocked and upset that the city has approved a duplex next door to their three-story Victorian home that they say will tower metres above their chimney and rend...
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Duane Bratt🇨🇦 @duanebratt.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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
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Special Ballot Request · Voter Registration Portal
voter registration election elector register
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Marcello Di Cintio @marcellodicintio.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
My transcription software keeps transcribing "Crowsnest Pass" as "Christmas past" and I smile every time.
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Alex Middleton @alexyyc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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.
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Marcello Di Cintio @marcellodicintio.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“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.
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Marcello Di Cintio @marcellodicintio.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I just remembered that I had wallpaper from Disney's The Black Hole in my childhood bedroom, just in case any of you doubt my coolness.
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Alex Middleton @alexyyc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"...she is little more than a political opportunist whose primary ambition is wielding state power to reward her allies and discipline her enemies." I have been waiting a long time for someone to say this out loud.
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Marcello Di Cintio @marcellodicintio.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I took home an Alberta Magazine Award for my story about Danielle Smith’s war on trans kids last night. I’m thrilled. Go read it at @albertaviews.bsky.social.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
My man looks like a mobster who's just been pantsed by Bugs Bunny
Pete Hegseth, looking like a cocktail you found the morning after a party
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Marcello Di Cintio @marcellodicintio.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Can we hurry up and put Ms. Rachel in charge of everything already?
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Marcello Di Cintio @marcellodicintio.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"A judge has denied Tamara Lich permission to travel internationally while she serves a 12-month house-arrest sentence, including on a Caribbean cruise" are actual words an actual person had to write.
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Marcello Di Cintio @marcellodicintio.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Quebecers could equally claim that their taxes paid for federal expenses in Alberta, such as grants for public transit, wildfire fighting or subsidies to oil companies. “Sacré bleu,” they could rage, “stop subsidizing those western bastards!” thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...
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No, Alberta Does Not ‘Subsidize’ the Rest of Canada | The Tyee
The vast majority of workers get more from federal programs than they give.
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is the part many Americans -- including the Bezosites at the Washington Post -- don't understand. Canadians don't see this just as a Trump thing. It's that America elected him twice, and the second time with an even bigger mandate. The problem we're addressing is America, not Trump.
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Marcello Di Cintio @marcellodicintio.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“They’re technically alive, I guess, if you want to call that living. They open and close sometimes, but, I mean, so does a wallet. If you’ve used a wallet, you know more or less all there is to know about clams.” theonion.com/biologists-a...
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Biologists Announce There Absolutely Nothing We Can Learn From Clams
WOODS HOLE, MA—Saying they saw no conceivable reason to bother with the bivalve mollusks, biologists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution announced Thursday that there was absolutely nothing to...
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David Moscrop @davidmoscrop.com · 14/09/2026
Oh, just wait until the right wing free speech brigade hears about this!
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Marcello Di Cintio @marcellodicintio.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Anyone stupid enough to believe Trump will spend more than a trillion dollars to give out $5000 cheques is already stupid enough to vote Republican anyway.
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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 09/09/2026
NEW POST: You don’t have to caricature Alberta separatism as vacuous or racist, the separatists do it themselves emmettmacfarlane.substack.com/p/you-dont-h...
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You don’t have to caricature Alberta separatism as vacuous or racist, the separatists do it themselves
Over at journalist Paul Wells’s newsletter, he has opened the door to guest columnists on the Alberta secession question.
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
In which Derek Fildebrandt makes the case for Alberta separatism and says the not-very-quiet part out loud. "Rapid mass migration dilutes our voting power." Sorry, "our"? Who's the "our" here? paulwells.substack.com/p/derek-fild...
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Derek Fildebrandt: Bertasplaining independence to the Rest of Canada
In a guest column, the Western Standard publisher explains why he’s voting to Leave
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Jay Troyer @gr8flbluejay.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Criselda Vasquez, American, The New American Gothic, 2017, oil on canvas, 72 x 48 in, private collection The artist's father, portrayed in the painting, was kidnapped by ICE on 31 March 2026
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Marcello Di Cintio @marcellodicintio.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Details of Cardiff and Miller’s kinetic installation, The Marionette Maker.
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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
From a confirmed source within the Calgary Board of Education... Over 1000 kids across Calgary are being denied an education. Because of UCP changes to the Education Act, over 1000 kids are being denied an education because of delays in immigration processing. Over 1000.
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Marcello Di Cintio @marcellodicintio.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The chief characteristic of Alberta separatists is bigotry, followed closely by gullibility.
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Marcello Di Cintio @marcellodicintio.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Arrivederci, Barilla. variety.com/2026/biz/new...
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Gal Gadot’s Goodles Mac-and-Cheese Startup Acquired by Pasta Giant Barilla
Goodles, the mac-and-cheese brand co-founded by actress Gal Gadot, announced a deal to be acquired by the Barilla Group, the world's largest pasta company.
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Marcello Di Cintio @marcellodicintio.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The entire Alberta separatist movement will collapse.
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Jay Gamble @drjaydrno.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The mail-in ballots for the xenophobic referendum questions and the referendum to think about maybe having another future referendum come with a threat of a $50k fine and up to two years in jail if you are able to go to advanced or regular voting places. Glad to see the UCP fucking this up, as per.
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Marcello Di Cintio @marcellodicintio.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
A happy surprise. Precarious nabbed a nomination for the J. W. Dafoe Book Prize. dafoefoundation.ca/2026/09/01/2...
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2026 JW Dafoe Book Prize Longlist Announcement – J. W. Dafoe Foundation
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Eva Holland @evaholland.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Hey wow @theglobeandmail.com this is new to me and I hate it a lot.
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Schwartz’s Deli in Montreal has switched from Cott’s Black Cherry Soda to Quebec-made Fleischer’s Original Black Cherry Soda after Refresco stopped manufacturing Cott products in Canada.
U.S. tariffs on aluminum and a 2023 provincial recycling deposit contributed to the end of Cott’s Canadian production.
Schwartz’s general manager Frank Silva says customers won’t switch back, even if Cott’s returns.

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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Holy crap. Danielle Smith issued an "Alberta Day" statement this morning... And then reissued it, removing the acknowledgement of First Nations peoples in Alberta. And included a shout out to oil and gas instead. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
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Marcello Di Cintio @marcellodicintio.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
And who doesn't love pecan pie with a side of shrimp?
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Marcello Di Cintio @marcellodicintio.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I wish the CBC asked Notley and Kenney about the other nine referendum questions. They're as important as separation, if not more so, because they have a reasonable chance of passing. And this would be a disaster. youtu.be/Clp4fK9qwQA?...
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Notley, Kenney set aside differences, advocate to keep Alberta in Canada | Power & Politics
YouTube video by CBC News
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Marcello Di Cintio @marcellodicintio.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
About a month or so after started grade one, my son told me he didn't want to go to school anymore. "I've learned enough," he said. Today he starts grade 12 and I'm having a hard time with that.
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Marc Veldhoen @marcveld.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
As an immunologist with a great interest in infection and immune function, I watched the COVID-19 pandemic unfold from 2020 onward, in real time. What stays with me most is not what policies changed, but how much we learned and how much existing knowledge we confirmed. 1/10
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Marcello Di Cintio @marcellodicintio.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Drinking black coffee immediately after eating an apple is unpleasant.
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Marcello Di Cintio @marcellodicintio.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
When your brave revolutionaries need to sit during your rallies you know you’re dealing with a movement of the future.
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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
From Scott Harradine
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Marcello Di Cintio @marcellodicintio.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Another banger from @sproudfoot.bsky.social. www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/opi...
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Opinion: Stupidity is an infinitely renewable resource with this U.S. administration
From trade tensions to renaming Lake Ontario, the latest moves add to a pattern of chaos and needless distraction
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Marcello Di Cintio @marcellodicintio.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I've been dreaming of being selected as faculty for the Banff Centre's Literary Journalism program since attending as a participant way back in 2009. To share the role with such incredible writers as @monicakidd.bsky.social and Kamal makes this even sweeter. www.banffcentre.ca/programs/lit...
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Literary Journalism 2027
This 19-day self-directed journalism and non-fiction residency offers writers dedicated time, space, and momentum to advance a writing project.
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Marcello Di Cintio @marcellodicintio.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I’ve been trying all morning to come up with a Silence of the Lambs joke.
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David Moscrop @davidmoscrop.com · 28/08/2026
I’m genuinely glad we’ve sorted out what CBC should call what happened on 9/11. Now, what should it call what Israel is up to in Gaza and the US at home and around the world?
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Paging Danielle Smith
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Jason Markusoff @markusoff.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Alberta separatists are trying to spin the new US tariffs as a sign Canada is broken. One tells backers: a bad day for Canada is great for the independence cause. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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ANALYSIS | Unity or bust: How U.S. tariffs get spun into Alberta's separatism debate | CBC News
One side views the escalated trade war as an external threat that will bind Canadians; the other sees a sign of Canadian failure.
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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
"Their hydronyms" is a legitimately funny punchline.
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