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Rob Cottingham

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Leadership communications for great causes and big ideas. 🌹BCFED Communications Director 🗣️Speechwriter and speaking coach 🎤Voice actor repped by Connekt Creative 😂Standup comic ✒️Noise to Signal cartoonist 🖖Star Trek nerd

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Rob Cottingham @robcottingham.ca · 9h

Now entering the era of "Pics and it didn't happen."

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Rebecca Bollwitt @miss604.com · 14h

Nominations are open for Coast Mental Health's 2026 Courage To Come Back Awards which pay tribute to those who have overcome overwhelming challenges and now selflessly give back to their community.
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Courage To Come Back Awards Nominations Open

Nominations are open for the Courage To Come Back Awards, paying tribute to those who have overcome challenges and now give back to their communities

Rob Cottingham @robcottingham.ca · 14h

Fixed it, CNN.

CNN headline "Canada’s ‘boycott America’ movement is hurting innocent bystanders" corrected to read "Trump's reckless attack on our largest trading partner is having completely predictable results"

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Adam P Olsen @adampolsen.bsky.social · 1d

“There is a growing chorus of voices telling Canadians that reconciliation is impossible. They craft a narrative of winners and losers… Yet there is another story. There is another tradition of coming together.”

Read my latest in The Tyee: thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...

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As Denialism Grows, Look to Our History of Coming Together | The Tyee

We can choose which traditions to uphold. Here’s my choice.

Rob Cottingham @robcottingham.ca · 19h

Also, what makes a company innocent? If I was reporting that story, questions number one and two to each owner would have been “Did you vote for the guy who was hell-bent on starting a trade war? Did you donate to his campaign?”

Rob Cottingham @robcottingham.ca · 1d

Entire country of innocent bystanders: 👀

CNN headline: "Canada's boycott America movement is hurting innocent bystanders"

Rob Cottingham @robcottingham.ca · 2d

The spirit of innovation is alive and well in 2025

Rob Cottingham @robcottingham.ca · 2d

“The block-and-ignore is more powerful than the ratio-and-amplify.” Sun Tzu

Rob Cottingham @robcottingham.ca · 2d

“I returned their loved one safe and sound, as promised. Am I not entitled to the agreed-upon ransom?”

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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 3d

💯💯💯💯💯💯

Rob Cottingham @robcottingham.ca · 4d

It really is like some godawful oldies station right now, with the very worst ideas of the 50s (McCarthyism), 60s (attacks on campuses and inner cities), 70s (Nobel Peace Prizes for war criminals) and 80s (Star Wars plus a decrepit blowhard in the White House)

Rob Cottingham @robcottingham.ca · 4d

(Which is maybe why Canada's making noises about being on-board with the remastered version of SDI?)

Rob Cottingham @robcottingham.ca · 4d

There's nothing a crowd loves like the classics.

Rob Cottingham @robcottingham.ca · 4d

OH in the Oval Office: "Who's a guy gotta blow up to win a Nobel Peace Prize around here?"

Rob Cottingham @robcottingham.ca · 4d

I took this on Kauai a few years ago. These are red-crested cardinals, and I *love* them.

The bird you saw sounds lovely too! Not a dark-eyed junco, I take it?

Rob Cottingham @robcottingham.ca · 4d

Thank you. And here's your change.

Two red-crested cardinals on a patch of grass, with two zebra doves behind them

Rob Cottingham @robcottingham.ca · 4d

I realize this is SO FAR from being the most important thing about this post... but how did they link the text "Download PDF" and "View Full Case"? Is this something you need to do from the API, or is there something I'm missing in the web interface or the app?

Big Cases Bot @bigcases.bots.law · 4d

New filing: "Illinois v. Trump (national guard deployment)"
Doc #70: memorandum opinion and order

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Rob Cottingham @robcottingham.ca · 5d

So basically if you played the first one but not the second

"You have died of dysentery" screen on Oregon Trail game

Terminal screen showing the 1971 Star Trek game

Rob Cottingham @robcottingham.ca · 5d

"A delightful 2008 stage 3 Cabernet."

Rob Cottingham @robcottingham.ca · 6d

"Wilson is expected to declare bankruptcy, and the colossal fine is sure to prove a deterrent to his fellow billionaires, observers said." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Billionaire Chip Wilson fined $600 for unauthorized election sign targeting B.C. NDP | CBC News

Elections B.C. says three signs Lululemon founder Chip Wilson put up in front of his Vancouver home during the 2024 provincial election period, including one that called the B.C. NDP "communist," cons...

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Canada's National Observer @nationalobserver.com · 6d

We're going public today with a powerful new tool for researching, following and reporting on local governments across Canada.

It’s dragging cities and towns into the 21st century by making 550 municipalities’ public meetings easy to search, all in one place, for the first time.

Canada’s National Observer unveils a powerful tool for fighting disinformation

Civic Searchlight brings together municipal meeting transcripts from across Canada into a searchable database for the first time. It has already been used to fight disinformation, report on impact, di...

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Rob Cottingham @robcottingham.ca · 7d

This is a superb piece of reporting about the profoundly frustrating, often disturbing and just plain sad situation at Kamloops City Hall.

Tyler Olsen @tyolsen.bsky.social · 7d

NEW: I teamed up with @castanetkamloops.net to write this long in-depth account of Reid Hamer-Jackson's three years as mayor of Kamloops. I also talked to the unrepentant mayor for two hours.

thetyee.ca/News/2025/10...

Mayor of Chaos: How Kamloops Politics Became Infamous | The Tyee

Car dealer Reid Hamer-Jackson won office with charisma and ideas. Then the wheels came off.

Rob Cottingham @robcottingham.ca · 7d

This is a superb piece of reporting about the profoundly frustrating, often disturbing and just plain sad situation at Kamloops City Hall.

Tyler Olsen @tyolsen.bsky.social · 7d

NEW: I teamed up with @castanetkamloops.net to write this long in-depth account of Reid Hamer-Jackson's three years as mayor of Kamloops. I also talked to the unrepentant mayor for two hours.

thetyee.ca/News/2025/10...

Mayor of Chaos: How Kamloops Politics Became Infamous | The Tyee

Car dealer Reid Hamer-Jackson won office with charisma and ideas. Then the wheels came off.

Rob Cottingham @robcottingham.ca · 7d

Absolutely smashing piece. Congratulations to both of you on such thorough reporting, untangling the snarl of accusations and counter-accusations that constitute Hamer-Jackson’s record in office.

Rob Cottingham @robcottingham.ca · 7d

I’m digging the Mamdani-evoking design!