How to check us
2026-10-04 Evening edition
This paper writes its own sentences, and every one of them rests on somebody else’s work: reporters, clerks, analysts and the public bodies that publish their records. Nothing here is original reporting. What we add is the assembly and the checking, so this page shows both for the edition you are reading — built from the pipeline’s own record on every press, never written by hand.
Every outlet and public body this edition cites, and how many of its items each one informed. Each name links to one of the pieces it published; every item on the paper links to its own.
| Stage | Stories |
|---|---|
| candidates collected | 1,242 |
| kept by the prefilter | 686 |
| not already published | 163 |
| distinct stories | 155 |
| written | 41 |
| published | 45 |
Published as 1 lead, 10 front-page and 31 desk items, 3 as a headline and a link only. Model spend for this edition: $0.16 over 20 calls.
| Check | Result |
|---|---|
| Every sentence checked against its source by a model from a different company than the one that wrote it. A sentence that fails is cut, unless one rewrite passes a fresh check | 81 checked · 78 supported · 3 failed: 19 rewritten and passed, 0 cut |
| Items naming a person before the courts or a child in care, or carrying a contradicted claim, read again for publication bans and fairness | 5 reviewed · 5 cleared |
| Sentences a word-matching check flagged, read again by the fact-check model with the flag named | 17 flagged · 1 confirmed · — refused |
| Headlines the check flagged: confirmed by the fact-check model, rewritten, or replaced by our own first verified sentence | 1 flagged · 1 confirmed · — our lede |
| Sentences dropped for quoting a source past 25 words | 0 |
| Items held for a person to decide | 4 |
| What | This edition |
|---|---|
| Editions due in the last 14 days that are not in the archive | 2026-09-28 evening, 2026-09-29 morning |
| Sources we read that have gone quiet or never produced | 53 of 158 · 55 checked daily until they return · named on Sources |
| Sources not answering at this press | 10 · named on Sources |
| Instruments and collectors that failed on this edition | 1 · details |
| Problems filed in the last 14 days, none of which could withhold an edition | watcher × 12, meetings × 9, test_pages.py × 5, test_mobile.py × 2 |
| Corrections published | 0 · the log |
Alberta mode is a guy from Edmonton commenting on the news, and the guy is a machine. One or two lines an item — what somebody who has lived here his whole life would say reading it out to his mates.
It is not the story. The headline above each comment is the real one, the source link below it goes to the real reporting, and the plain edition is one click away. He is not summarising anything and he is not a reporter; he is the guy at the shop with an opinion about it.
He swears when a sentence wants it. He is rude about council, developers, the province, the weather, the roads and the Oilers, and never about the people in the story. He holds about a dozen opinions that contradict each other and he is fine with that.
Some of it will sit wrong anyway. When it does, that is on us and we would rather hear it than not: [email protected], and we will pull the line.
Two things get no comment at all, and they are not negotiable: anyone charged or before a court, who has a trial coming and is entitled to have us stay out of it, and a suicide. Anything you need to ACT on — a tip line, an advisory, an evacuation — keeps its full text underneath the comment, because a phone number does not go behind a joke.
The plain edition is the record, and it is the default. It is one click away and it is where you should check anything before you act on it.