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Canada's National Observer @nationalobserver.com · 3h

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 · 11h

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 · 13h

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.

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Rob Cottingham @robcottingham.ca · 11h

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 · 13h

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.

thetyee.ca

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Rob Cottingham @robcottingham.ca · 11h

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.

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Rob Cottingham @robcottingham.ca · 16h

I’m digging the Mamdani-evoking design!

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Rob Cottingham @robcottingham.ca · 22h

I really wonder how many of those accounts are authentic, and how many are part of persona farms. (Or "coordinated inauthentic behaviour," to use the term of art.)

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Rob Cottingham @robcottingham.ca · 1d

Tonight’s top CBS News story: It’s good that Anthony’s bringing in new tariffs. It’s real good. And tomorrow’s gonna be a real good day.

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Rob Cottingham @robcottingham.ca · 1d

In other news, construction has started on a newly expanded cornfield.

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Rob Cottingham @robcottingham.ca · 1d

Tonight’s top CBS News story: It’s good that Anthony’s bringing in new tariffs. It’s real good. And tomorrow’s gonna be a real good day.

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Rob Cottingham @robcottingham.ca · 3d

Nobody has ever died because they tagged the artist who created the image they're posting. So if that's what's stopping you, rest easy.

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Rob Cottingham @robcottingham.ca · 4d

a. and b. And I miss seeing them, but it's going to be a long time before I'm crossing that border again. :(

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Rob Cottingham @robcottingham.ca · 5d

When you leak data, it’s often not just your own privacy you put at risk. It’s anyone whose info can be linked to yours. Here’s how to run a tighter ship for everyone’s sake.

Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 5d

ICE is buying a location tracking tool that harvests data from hundreds of millions of phones a day. Protect your location data by updating a few settings on your phone 🧵 (1/4): www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-...

ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day

Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data.

www.404media.co

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Rob Cottingham @robcottingham.ca · 5d

When you leak data, it’s often not just your own privacy you put at risk. It’s anyone whose info can be linked to yours. Here’s how to run a tighter ship for everyone’s sake.

Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 5d

ICE is buying a location tracking tool that harvests data from hundreds of millions of phones a day. Protect your location data by updating a few settings on your phone 🧵 (1/4): www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-...

ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day

Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data.

www.404media.co

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Rob Cottingham @robcottingham.ca · 5d

But try to keep in mind the murders and human rights violations and slavery.

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Rob Cottingham @robcottingham.ca · 5d

Approach life with the childlike wonder of Bill Burr discovering Saudi Arabia has modern amenities.

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Rob Cottingham @robcottingham.ca · 5d

Couldn't find the egret's egress

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Rob Cottingham @robcottingham.ca · 5d

Alternate title:

NYT Connections screen with "hipster, boxer, brief, thong"

Rob Cottingham @robcottingham.ca · 5d

John le Carré estate: "We've found a previously undiscovered sequel to Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy."

Publishers: "Oh? What's it called?"

NYT Connections puzzle with highlighted words flapper, punk, bohemian, hipster

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Rob Cottingham @robcottingham.ca · 5d

#1 is “Chimpanzees aren’t goddamn monkeys.”

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Rob Cottingham @robcottingham.ca · 7d

I missed the big news of the weekend: one of my favourite NPR journalists has lost his job. www.washingtonpost.com/doonesbury/s...

Doonesbury Comic Strips by Garry Trudeau - September 28, 2025

Welcome to Doonesbury's web site, which features not only each day's strip (easily enlargeable for your easy-viewing pleasure), but also the daily SayWhat? quote, a constant flow of reader Blowback, a...

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Amber Mac @ambermac.bsky.social · 7d

I am so honoured to be a guest on this important new podcast. Women's health funding is inadequate and care is too often out of reach.

Frankly, it was easy for me to be a guest on this podcast to talk about my own fibroid journey and surgery.

Nam, thank you for doing this and sharing your story.

TVO Today | The Agenda @tvotoday.bsky.social · 8d

Venus Williams says doctors dismissed her fibroids for 30 years. What happens to the quality of your life when no one takes your pain seriously? Or when care is out of reach? @ambermac.bsky.social joins @namshine.bsky.social on the first episode of (MIS)Treated: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/a...

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Rob Cottingham @robcottingham.ca · 9d

np - can you do the same for @thetyee.ca and @nationalobserver.com?

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Rob Cottingham @robcottingham.ca · 9d

Is it just me, or is the Hindustan Times ranking weirdly highly in nearly every news search for other people too?

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Rob Cottingham @robcottingham.ca · 9d

Audition still for WB's upcoming The Roadrunner Movie

Rob Cottingham @robcottingham.ca · 10d

(And no, I don't think that's really what they have in mind. I think it's just a spectacularly expensive and asinine exercise in vanity.)