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I’m bouncing down the road in San Carlos, California, zipping past behemoth tech companies like EA and Oracle, in America’s smallest electric truck.The Telo MT1 (which stands for “mini truck”) unquestionably turns heads because it looks so remarkably different from everything else on the market right now.It has a nearly cab-over design, meaning that front-seat passengers sit almost directly over the front axle. It looks a lot like a Japanese kei truck, with a super-short nose and four doors. People stop to stare as we sit at stoplights or roll silently past.The interior is surprisingly spacious, and while the seats…

A constitutional battle is brewing in Quebec as a non-profit legal organization seeks to suspend a provincial law that no longer requires members of the national assembly to swear allegiance to the monarch. The legal challenge comes as premier-elect Paul St-Pierre Plamondon and the Parti Québécois prepare to take office following the party’s election victory Monday night.St-Pierre Plamondon, who has previously refused to swear allegiance to the King, has no plans to take the oath.Lawyer Lawrence David, founder of the Public Interest Litigation Institute, is challenging the Quebec law and seeking an interim injunction to suspend it.“Mr. St-Pierre Plamondon is…

It started off promising enough. Dozens of tiny, colorful birds were drawn to my garden just a few weeks after I mounted a $350 $269 Kiwibit Bird Feeder 2 Pro. “Looks like Great Tit!” read the first AI-driven alert sent to my phone. “Looks like Eurasian Blue Tit!” read another. I chuckled, still waiting for adulthood to kick in.This went on for days. Hundreds of miniature tits came to snack on expensive sunflower seeds already husked. They’d skulk about in nearby trees before flittering in to grab a single seed to be safely enjoyed in the canopy above.I took great…

A second crossing connecting Kelowna and West Kelowna is once again emerging as an election issue, with local candidates offering different views on how to address growing traffic congestion on and around the W.A.C Bennett Bridge. Calls for another bridge have persisted for years, as commuters regularly face delays on the existing crossing on Okanagan Lake.“I think bridge traffic in the morning can be a bit much,” says Ryan Burley, who uses the bridge regularly.The issue was highlighted earlier this month again when an accident forced the closure of all three southbound lanes for several hours, creating significant traffic backlogs.BC…

A post on X from “pdfu,” who has previously posted leaks and renders of suspected Apple features and LG smart home gear, shows new details of rumored Apple Home accessories from LG. According to the new leak, they could include an NFC-based “Proximity Control” feature that pops up a hint for a device’s controls in the iPhone’s Dynamic Island, simply by putting the phone close to it. The post also says it’s executed using the Matter protocol, but appears to be an Apple Home-specific feature, and follows yesterday’s leak showing a “tap to setup without power” pairing feature and other…

Descrease article font size Increase article font size Treason. No to the nine. Not your land. Those are just some of the words spray-painted this week on several Alberta referendum political signs placed throughout Fort McMurray.Wood Buffalo RCMP were alerted Thursday about the damage to more than half of the signs promoting Alberta separatism in the northern Alberta community.RCMP said they received a report that seven signs relating to the upcoming Oct. 19 referendum had been damaged with spray paint, sometime between Sept. 29 and Oct. 4.Elections Alberta granted permission for 11 signs from third-party campaign group Let Alberta Decide…

Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen was mostly unfazed watching Oscar-winning actress Mikey Madison play a character named after her in The Social Reckoning, except for one thing: the wrist warmers.In Aaron Sorkin’s new thriller, the fictional Haugen — who, like her nonfictional counterpart, leaks thousands of documents to Wall Street Journal reporter Jeff Horwitz — habitually dons the accessories. It’s a character quirk that reflects real life, where they’re a way to deal with the effects of a vasoconstrictive disorder. “I’ve figured out lots of ways to minimize how much of an obstruction this is,” she tells The Verge in an…

By Staff The Canadian Press Posted October 9, 2026 6:55 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Another whale shipped out of Marineland has died at the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago. The aquarium says Caspian, a 27-year-old female beluga, died on Wednesday despite efforts to save her.It’s the sixth animal from the closed Niagara Falls, Ont., theme park to die after a massive relocation of whales and dolphins over the summer.Four other belugas and one dolphin from Marineland have died since they were moved out of the former tourist attraction. Get breaking National news Get…

When Microsoft released Windows 11 five years ago, it felt like an operating system that was still being renovated, a work in progress. You’d think by now that those renovations would be complete, with Microsoft turning its attention to Windows 12. Instead, Windows 11 feels like it’s here to stay, forming the foundation for Microsoft’s next big ambition: transforming Windows into an agentic OS.At a Windows and Surface event this week, Microsoft laid out its plan to bring AI agents to Windows, including hybrid intelligence that lets Windows take advantage of free local models instead of expensive cloud ones. “I…

The removal of a Saskatoon encampment earlier this week was upsetting, but necessary, a local outreach advocate said. The reaction comes following the City of Saskatoon’s decision to remove the encampment on city-owned private property at 20th Street and Avenue K South on Thursday. In a news release that evening, the city said 120 people left the site.Eighty tents were removed from the encampment, the City of Saskatoon added.“It was very sad for us to see the encampments go down, but to be honest, they needed to. There has been a lot of violence,” Shirley Isbister, president of the Central…