Edmonton Daily Brief · Sources
<a href="/sources.html">Sources</a>
This is the SCORES/STATS source, not narrative: goal scorers, three stars, shots, PP results. Everything you need to auto-write 'McDavid 2G 1A, Oilers 5-2' without touching prose you don't own.
OWNER RULED 2026-08-26: wired, facts-only. Box-score facts yes, NHL's recap prose no — the morning recap is WRITTEN BY OUR WRITER from a deterministic facts sheet this row's payload produces (pipeline/sources/nhl_recap.py), drafted and entail-gated against that sheet like any story. The WSC game-story row stays retired under the same ruling. FINAL states only, never mid-game; no-game nights yield no candidate. | WIRING RECKONING 2026-08-25: DEFERRED — OWNER: box-score depth for Oilers coverage is a sports-desk product decision; undocumented API, terms unstated | WIRING TRIAGE 2026-08-23 — INSTRUMENT, NOT A SOURCE: a dataset for a page fixture (a number, a map, a table), never a candidate story — wiring it means a fixture and a renderer, which is a product decision with the front end, not a collector. Unofficial. /play-by-play is very large (hundreds of events) — only pull it if you need shot-level detail. Video ids in gameVideo point at Brightcove assets you may not embed. Catalogued but NOT WIRED, found 2026-08-21 on a second pass: the first wiring audit matched this source on a generic path segment such as 'news' or 'items' and wrongly counted it as referenced. Its mode has no generic collector and no code names its endpoint. Disabled so the registry stops counting it as coverage; the entry is kept because the endpoint was verified. See ops/wiring.py.
If this is yours and you want it left out, write to [email protected]. We stop reading it and withdraw everything that cited it, past editions included. Every source · How this paper is made
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.