20271 stories
·
161 followers

Tesla driver caught asleep at wheel during rainy rush hour: RCMP

1 Share
A police officer with his RCMP shoulder badge pictured.

Police in Metro Vancouver are warning drivers to remain attentive, even in a self-driving vehicle, after ticketing a woman who "appeared to be literally asleep at the wheel" on Highway 1.

Read the whole story
dreadhead
1 hour ago
reply
Vancouver Island, Canada
Share this story
Delete

Trump administration to pay French company $1B to drop U.S. offshore wind leases

1 Share
A sign for the French company TotalEnergies is displayed at headquarters March 21, 2025, in La Defense business district outside of Paris.

TotalEnergies has agreed to what's essentially a refund of its leases for projects off the coasts of North Carolina and New York, and will invest the money in fossil fuel projects instead, the Department of Interior announced.

(Image credit: Thomas Padilla)

Read the whole story
dreadhead
7 hours ago
reply
Vancouver Island, Canada
Share this story
Delete

2 pilots killed after Air Canada plane collides with vehicle at New York's LaGuardia Airport

1 Share

Read the whole story
dreadhead
14 hours ago
reply
Vancouver Island, Canada
Share this story
Delete

satoshikurosaki:

1 Share

satoshikurosaki:

Read the whole story
dreadhead
3 days ago
reply
Vancouver Island, Canada
Share this story
Delete

Palestinian man says Israeli settlers sexually assaulted him in front of his family

1 Comment and 2 Shares
A man holds zip ties in his hands.

Israeli settlers sexually assaulted a Palestinian man — tying his genitalia with zip ties and parading him naked in front of his family — during a mid-March attack in the occupied West Bank, according to the victim and eyewitnesses.

Read the whole story
DMack
2 days ago
reply
This is a different sexual assault from the one that was caught on camera, and then the charges were dropped, and the rapist soldiers were hailed as heroes on tv, and the lawyer prosecuting them was put on house arrest
Victoria, BC
dreadhead
3 days ago
reply
Vancouver Island, Canada
Share this story
Delete

Trump is dismantling democracy at 'unprecedented' speed, global report finds

1 Share
Before he was elected to a second term, former President Donald Trump hugged and kissed the U.S. flag as he spoke at the Conservative Political Action Conference at National Harbor, in Oxon Hill, Md., in 2024.

Three major new studies on democracy and freedom all find the U.S. is slipping further away from democracy. Leaders of two of those studies say President Trump's goal is to rule as an autocrat.

(Image credit: Alex Brandon)

Read the whole story
dreadhead
4 days ago
reply
Vancouver Island, Canada
Share this story
Delete
Next Page of Stories