Sting performs with The Police at Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton. (Jason Franson/Sun Media)

HOLLYWOOD -- Move over, Philadelphia!

It appears another place has earned bragging rights to being the City of Brotherly Love -- namely, Edmonton.

According to our spies, it was there that The Police settled their heated differences in the wake of drummer Stewart Copeland's now-infamous blog.

For those who somehow missed all commotion, Copeland wrote a scathing review of his reunited band's "unbelievably lame" Vancouver shows on his website, underscoring numerous performance miscues.

While he was as equally hard on himself as he was on his fellow bandmates, it was a reference he made to one of Sting's choreographic manoeuvres -- yep, that would be the "petulant pansy" line -- that would turn out to be the shot heard around the world.

As a result of the subsequent fallout, existing tensions between the three Police men, playing together for the first time in 23 years, mounted to the point that some kind of mediation would be required.

Ultimately Sting, Copeland and guitarist Andy Summers opted to try to clear the air themselves following their Saturday performance at Edmonton's Commonweath Stadium, where they cut their usual closing number (the ironically-titled Next to You) to allow sufficient time to work stuff out.

Apparently it all ended in a group hug before the boys jumped back on their tour plane and headed home for a few scheduled days of down-time before cranking it up again this week in Seattle.

Good on ya, Edmonton. Wonder if you can work your magic with The Spice Girls?