Marcello Di Cintio

Credit where credit is due: that was pretty funny.

Being a working writer with deadlines is great but it's also unbelievably stupid. Like sorry guys I can't go out tonight, I am thirty-three years old and I have homework that I begged to do.

I'm taking one 90 minute shower on April 9th.

I’ll be pontificating to strangers at a Calgary bar this week. Hardly a rare occurrence, to be honest.

... glanced *west* at Iraq. Dammit!

But I do trust the Iranians to decide what is best for their country. I won’t begrudge their current hope and happiness. (10/10)

Nor can we rely on Trump or Netanyahu, the world’s worst people, to do the right thing. Difficult and bloody times lay ahead. (9/10)

Nobody knows what will come next. We’ve all seen what an America-backed Israel can do to a population whose lives mean nothing to them. And history has been unkind to the recipients of American-gifted regime change. (8/10)

However, the end of the regime would be an objectively positive thing for the people of Iran. Sanctions and proxy wars have failed to unseat the ayatollahs. Elections have been meaningless. Protests brutally and bloodily put down. Maybe this is what it takes. (7/10)

Yes, these attacks break international law. No, I don’t trust for a moment the motivations of Donald Trump and his genocidal puppet masters in Tel Aviv. Nor do I believe for a moment that they truly give a shit about the lives of Iranians. (6/10)

After recent conversations with Iranians, I wonder if I was wrong. Maybe it’s time we listen to the Iranians who don’t see this current assault as an attack on their people, but the rescue they’ve long called for. (5/10)

I considered this to be simply bluster – the exaggerations of an oppressed people. Certainly Iranians wouldn’t actually welcome an American bombardment, I thought. (4/10)

Iranians had glanced east and watched George W. Bush’s forces unseat the Taliban in Afghanistan. Then they glanced east to watch Bush remove Saddam Hussein from Iraq. “Please, Bush, bomb us next,” one man told me. (3/10)

Their willingness to openly disparage the Islamic regime surprised me, but not as much as when they told me they wanted America to bomb them. (2/10)

I visited Iran in 2003 and 2004 for a book I was writing. People warned me against talking politics while I was there, but I quickly learned that politics was all Iranians wanted to talk about. (1/10)

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B.C. farm hit with record $435K penalty for foreign worker violations The penalty to Kanwar Walia Farms is the largest ever handed to a B.C. company for breaching laws meant to protect temporary foreign workers

www.biv.com/news/economy...

Shameful and disappointing response.

@reecejones.bsky.social Spotted side-by-side!

YouTube video by The Breach Pierre Poilievre is misleading the public about refugee healthcare

Pierre Poilievre says refugee claimants are undermining Canada’s health care system—but it couldn’t be further from the truth.

@desmondcole.bsky.social fact checks his misinformation and explains how blaming the most vulnerable distracts us from fighting for good health care for all.

Today on GET LIT! We talk with Marcello Di Cintio about his book, Precarious: The Lives of Migrant Workers.

1230pm on 93.3 / cfmu dot ca or on pods or here: tinyurl.com/3kj4xk2t

@marcellodicintio.bsky.social @biblioasis.bsky.social

I Don’t Recognize Alberta Anymore - Macleans.ca My province has always fought with Ottawa. What’s new is a premier who gives legitimacy to separation.

Maclean's approached me about writing a personal essay on Alberta Secession and my opposition to it.
It was published today.
macleans.ca/politics/i-d...

Congratulations, Mark!

Migrant farm workers’ class-action suit against Canadian government certified Ontario court clears major hurdle for the suit that claims systemic racism and discrimination on behalf of 75,000 current and former migrant workers.

More excellent work by @nicholaskeung.bsky.social.
www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

I'd still rather travel to Mexico than the United States.

Toronto harold satire site headline: "Canadian Olympic hockey teams to bring back silver medals to home country that has healthcare and stable democracy"

okay, this is funny, though

While it's fun pointing out Smith's hypocrisy on immigration, we need to focus on her real intentions.

By proposing immigration restrictions as the solution to Alberta's problems, she casts immigrants as the cause of those problems - rather than her own cruel incompetence. This is dangerous.

Danielle Smith Is No Separatist. She’s Much Worse | The Tyee The premier’s referendum plan is destructive, divisive and ultimately evil.

thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...

I’m going to need you to be a little more specific.

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