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amii.ca/events)The Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute's own calendar — Upper Bound is the largest AI conference in the country and it is held here. No feed, no JSON-LD, and the tech desk was explicitly asked to cover Amii.
Mode `html`, read by pipeline/sources/events.py (amii) — NOT `scrape`, which would hand the page to collect_watched to diff as news. The page is Next.js and ships its Algolia widget's initial results inline: window[Symbol.for("InstantSearchInitialResults")] = {events:{results:[{hits:[…]}]}} in a plain <script>. The harvester parses that JSON and never touches the markup. Hits carry name, full_slug ('pages/events/<slug>' → amii.ca<slug>, verified 200) and content.{event_date 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM', event_time (often empty → all day), location}. Amii hosts events in Montreal and Boston too; location goes through the region filter so only Edmonton's stay. If the site drops the inline index the harvester returns [] (ran, found nothing) — watch for that.
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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.
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