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BEST single machine-readable source for new Alberta appellate judgments. Style/citation/appeal-number are all in the title, so you get 2026 ABCA nnn the day it is released, before CanLII indexes it. Also carries judicial retirements/appointments and Notices to the Profession.
Discovered only via <link href="/feeds/latest-announcements---court-of-appeal"> in the /ca page body — it is not advertised anywhere on the site. Mixed content: judgments, admin notices, and personnel news share one feed, so you must classify by title pattern (/\d{4} ABCA \d+/). Volume is moderate (brief-worthy), not firehose. Entries carry a guid, title and pubDate and NO link — feedparser reports link=False for every one, so all 25 were dropped and the feed reported healthy. Identity now comes from the guid and the reader is sent to the announcements page. Verified 2026-08-21.
If this is yours and you want it left out, write to hello@edmontondailybrief.ca. We stop reading it and withdraw everything that cited it, past editions included. Every source · How this paper is made
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.