Rob Cottingham

With #Halloween coming up, let’s all remember the “Trick-Or-Treat Test!” “Kids know when a neighborhood is good for getting candy because there's a lot of doors near each other…I call it door density.” “Halloween reveals a lot about good neighborhood design every day.” My @npr.org interview:

And in increasingly promising election news... www.dw.com/en/brazil-el...

No, it's not okay to use that word. Yes, I know the White House communications director used it. That doesn't make it okay. If anything, that's a red flag.

In much, much, MUCH happier election news... www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Does the heart good. OneBC, named for an overly-optimistic seat projection.

Sure I’m upset with the BC NDP for calling this election and other things. But I understand order of magnitude. My frustration with them isn’t within the same galaxy as my concern with handing a blank check of power to an extremist BC Conservative Party that hasn’t even picked their REAL leader yet.

Times are challenging. That's a reason to fight even harder — not to make it harder to fight. #BCLab #BCPoli #BCElection

From @electionsbc: You're entitled to "a four-hour period free from work during voting hours. Time off may be at the beginning or end of an employee’s shift, or unnecessary if normal working hours already provide enough time free from work to vote."

Pretty please.

Introducing Whoopsi™️, the first AI agent trained entirely on Notes App apologies

Don’t let them tell you it’s suffering that makes for the best art. It’s spite. Always has been.

FFS, Canva.

Is your life TOO affordable? Do Lorne Doerkson and the BC Conservatives have a deal for you. #BCPoli #BCLab #BCElection

However bad your day is going, at least you’re not GOP candidate Eric Pratt.

Seriously, congratulations and deep thanks to everyone who worked so hard to turn back a genuine threat to our country. You rock, Alberta. ❤️

So far this is making for some very emotionally fulfilling television.

Here's hoping the least chill people on earth will be able to keep it together

The BC Conservatives kept their platform under wraps until just days before the election... and now we know why. It's a sham. They've cooked their own books. #BCLab #BCPoli #BCElection

I’m appealing to Albertans to vote tomorrow to deprive this ghoulish jackass and the cynical hacks who’ve enabled him of even the faintest sense of satisfaction.

A very interesting read here, but the standout is Ed Steed's illustrations.

Really solid CBC BC election coverage tonight, and a smashing job by @jmcelroy.bsky.social. One request: a little more chyron. Please keep putting the names of your guests/analysts up on-screen after introducing them the first time.

No matter what else happens tonight, civil society in BC is the healthier for Kamloops' overwhelming rejection of soon-to-be-ex-Mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson. #BCPoli

Ah, here's the Chief Electoral Officer with the first results

I picture it like Vaal from Star Trek's "The Apple."

BREAKING: Russian bot army trying to throw the race to Koko. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The BC Conservatives: We absolutely will not tolerate hate* *Some exceptions apply #bcpoli #bcelxn

So that's that excuse gone. You still have a few hours left to vote in local elections, BC. (And maybe hit your advance voting location for the provincial while you're at it.)

(...and if we're doing books...) This Is How You Lose the Time War for Tax Purposes

Call Me by Your Name for Tax Purposes

"Why does the right-wing party in BC keep changing its name?" "Same reason bank robbers use aliases." #BCPoli #BCElection

Put it this way: you don't hide your leader away from media the day after an election debate that went *well.*

If he won't stand up to the bigots in his own party, what makes anyone think he'll stand up for British Columbia? #bcpoli vancouver.citynews.ca/2026/10/14/b...

If he won't stand up to the bigots in his own party, what makes anyone think he'll stand up for British Columbia? #bcpoli vancouver.citynews.ca/2026/10/14/b...

Sums up about one solid third of the entire debate tonight. #BCPoli

BC Conservative leader silent as additional Islamophobic posts surface from campaign manager BC Conservative campaign manager facing backlash for Islamophobic posts and reposts pressprogress.ca/bc-conservat...

A post by a political official attacking Muslims and calling for the expulsion of anyone supporting their religion? That should be immediate grounds for firing BC Conservative campaign director Katy Merrifield. #BCPoli #BCLab

Interesting approach from Ukraine to online content moderation.

The Conservatives have bought ads to tell us Lorne Doerkson has "been here the whole time." Good for him. Too bad he wasn't here for working people. #BCPoli #BCLab #BCElxn

This is a Goebbels call to violence. This is the rhetoric that preceded the Rwandan genocide. I know politics involves compromises, sometimes painful ones. But I will never understand the "moderate" Republicans who think anything could be worth the moral price they have to pay to support this man.

That quote "Everything under heaven is in chaos, and the situation is excellent" works better when you say it sarcastically.

New Turing test: parse spaces in Canadian postal codes

I've thumbs-downed the guy more times than I can remember, and yet...

Who has two thumbs and just learned to juggle chainsaws?? (counts thumbs) oh no