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In the spring of 2006, the National Hockey League's (NHL) Edmonton Oilers made a surprise run to the Stanley Cup final for the first time in 16 years. Predictably, hockey fans and media pundits responded enthusiastically to the one-time return to glory of their men's professional hockey team. Drawing from threads of political economy, historical analysis, cultural studies and queer critique, we read selections of the print media coverage of the Oilers' 2006 Cup run 'against the grain', juxtaposing the neoliberal strategies utilized to promote Edmonton with some of the lived realities in Alberta's provincial capital. We argue that the discourses of community reiterated in the city's main newspaper mobilize well-worn tropes of sport and civic boosterism through championship inspired communitas (Ingham and McDonald, 2003) with updated contemporary neoliberal twists. Specifically, the new stories contribute to the promotion of Edmonton as an arriviste city (Hiller, 2007): a mid-sized, intermediate city ready to shed its regional identity and compete on the national and indeed world stage; a city which continues to privilege affluent, white, masculinist elites, but does so in this early 21st-century iteration by incorporating and accommodating a variety of social identity-based groups. In particular, we focus on a discussion of how professional hockey and its print media representations can incorporate ethnic difference and queerness as civic elites strive to showcase Edmonton as a diverse and welcoming cosmopolitan centre.

There is no shortage of sociological research that explores the successes and failures of various sport-related social movements. However, a more capacious approach to understanding the significance of sport-related social movements, their imaginative actions and collective labor, and their impacts on social change, is one that shifts its focus away from binary categories of "success" and "failure". In this paper, we explore the formation of the short-lived Edmonton Community Benefits Coalition, which emerged in 2016 to oppose the lack of a legally binding Community Benefits Agreement associated with a new publicly financed National Hockey League arena in Edmonton's gentrifying city center, an area of spatially concentrated racialized poverty. Drawing from our ethnographic research, we examine how coalition members engaged in the collective labor of building solidarity, including the collaborative development of political strategies, while recognizing that the odds of successfully penetrating neoliberal capital and municipal governance were virtually impossible. Finally, given that the coalition ultimately "failed" to secure more significant institutional impacts, we offer an analysis of how this failure engendered several effects, including the cultivation of new relationships and political strategies in the ongoing struggle against gentrification and its related displacements in Edmonton, Alberta.

Nurses are facing increased mental health issues, substance use, and even suicide since the novel coronavirus pandemic arrived in the United States. Nurses with substance use disorder (SUD) may enroll in alternative-to-discipline (ATD) programs to retain their license during initial treatment with the goal to return to practice, but this process is not without challenges. For example, previous analyses have shown that the time surrounding disciplinary/regulatory process regarding substance use disorder (SUD) by either employers or licensure boards was a trigger for nurses who died by suicide. Internet searches are a common approach to find information on health-related topics. This limited critical review sought to replicate and evaluate a simple internet search that a nurse seeking information on their state ATD program may complete. Google searches for information on ATD programs were completed on the 50 continental states and Washington, DC between April and September 2022. States with ATD programs were evaluated for evidence-based components and barriers to accessing program information. Publicly available ATD program information ranged from requirements for contact information to obtain details to websites that outline the entire program, including associated costs. While ATD programs offer a significant improvement over traditional disciplinary responses to nurse substance use, a significant barrier is program cost, which can often exclude participation. In this article, we discuss the detailed results of our critical review and offer implications for practice that include opportunities for research and a national database to track ATD program components and target outcomes to support return to practice for nurses with SUDs.