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The only geocoded, categorised, near-current EPS crime incident data. Correct use is week-over-week deltas by Occurrence_Group and neighbourhood hotspot detection — 'break-and-enters in Alberta Avenue up 40% this week'.
WIRED 2026-08-23: read by pipeline/sources/crime.py as the `crime` fixture for the page (model-free; raises on failure so the rail records −1). Rendering is the front end's; contract in docs/INSTRUMENTS.md. Counts only, server-side (outStatistics grouped by Occurrence_Category) over complete days: 1,183 last full week vs 1,701 the week before on 2026-08-22. No row is ever listed. HIGH-VOLUME NOISE: 78,340 records across 30 days is ~2,600 incidents per day. Never render as individual items. One-day reporting lag. Locations are generalised to Intersection, not exact addresses. Supports outStatistics for server-side aggregation — use it, do not pull all 78k rows. 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.
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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.