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Somewhere in Edmonton, there’s a shiny sports car for sale because the organization traded it in for a pickup truck. Remember when high-vis vests were draped over the seats at Rogers Place on opening night? That wasn’t by accident; the high-flying Edmonton Oilers have become the Blue Collar Boys. Yesterday, Connor McDavid described the Oilers’ new identity.  “Yeah, it’s hard-working. It’s a hard-working group,” said the team captain. A new era has begun in Oil Country. It might not be as exciting, but boring hockey is sometimes needed. Lots of boring teams have won Stanley Cups, and even the skilled Colorado Avalanche and Tampa Bay Lightning play hard and check well. The RebrandAfter last year’s disappointing season, the Oilers decided enough was enough. The organization realized their team defence had to improve or the Stanley Cup was out of the question. Sean Panganiban wrote about this in May: “In the regular season (last season), the Oilers ranked 25th in goals against (265), and of the seven teams that gave up more goals than them, only one qualified for the playoffs.” Edmonton gave up the puck a lot, and the opposition had numerous high-danger chances.

A Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputy working as a guard at Twin Towers Correctional Facility used force against inmate Jeffrey Fairchild, allegedly smashing him face-first into a metal window frame and causing him to fall to the concrete floor, according to federal monitors overseeing conduct by deputies in L. A. County jails. The force of the impact left Fairchild a quadriplegic after the September 2024 incident, his family members said. He was taken to a hospital and remained under close medical care until April 21, 2025, when he suffered a heart attack and died at St. Mary Medical Center in Long Beach. In the wake of Fairchild’s death, his family members filed a lawsuit against Los Angeles County, Eric Barraza — the deputy who the monitors said used force against Fairchild — and a number of unnamed deputies who were working in the jail that day. The suit, filed in U. S. District Court in Los Angeles, claims that Barraza used excessive and unreasonable force, and that Fairchild’s death from complications stemming from the incident was wrongful.

With the municipal election quickly approaching, a new Canada Pulse Insights poll commissioned by OMNI and City News is showing that the race for Mayor is neck-and-neck. Sarah Jones breaks down the numbers.