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Highway closures, collisions and construction on Anthony Henday, Yellowhead, QEII and the ring-road approaches — the commuter-facing half of an Edmonton morning brief.
RECORDED 2026-10-12 (DECISIONS #41, the owner accepted the recommendation): a published feed — the province's documented developer API (511.alberta.ca/developers/doc), read with a key under terms that permit non-commercial reproduction without further permission. Read at the edge only: functions/mapfeed.js (the map's roads layer) and functions/live.js (the strip). Enabled now because the edge reads it; the old note below ('row stays enabled=false: the consumer is edge-only') described a rule the fetch ledger (#39) retired. Every credit links the terms page as the licence.
AUTH-GATED (2026-08-23): the API now answers HTTP 400 {"Message":"Invalid Key"} with or without an Accept header — a free developer key from 511.alberta.ca/developers unlocks it. This entry sat ENABLED and unread for a month because ops/wiring.py matched it on the generic token 'event' (fixed). Worth wiring once a key exists: Henday/QEII/Yellowhead closures are the gap in the closures rail. THROTTLED AT 10 CALLS PER 60 SECONDS (stated in their own docs at /developers/doc). 281 provincial events vs only ~20 in the Edmonton area — bbox-filter server-side is not supported, so filter client-side on lat/long. Most events are long-running roadwork; filter on IsFullClosure=true or EventType='accidentsAndIncidents' for brief-worthy items. robots.txt disallows /list/getdata/ and /eventdetails/ (the scrape paths) but does NOT disallow /api/, so API use is compliant.
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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.
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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.