If something here is wrong, it matters and we want to know —
particularly because this publication is machine-written and its whole argument
is that it can be checked. You do not need to be the subject of the item, and
you do not need to be polite.
Or email
corrections@edmontondailybrief.ca
with the headline and what is wrong. A link to the correct source helps and is
not required. The form above sends to the same place; the address always
works.
What happens next Every report is read.
If the item is wrong it is corrected on the page, logged here permanently with the
original wording, and the check that should have caught it is named. Corrections
are never quietly edited away — the log lives in version control.
The log
No corrections yet. That is not a boast — the site is new, and the honest expectation is that this page will not stay empty. When something is wrong it will be listed here, dated, with the original wording and an account of which check failed to catch it.
Before you flip this on
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:
corrections@edmontondailybrief.ca, 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.