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The machine-readable copy of edmonton.ca's festivals-and-events calendar: festivals, runs, parades, concerts in parks, each with a venue and a date. First-party, open-licensed, and the largest single source of dated public events the City publishes.
LICENCE LINKED 2026-10-12 (owner: a licence link wherever possible): its dataset on data.edmonton.ca states its licence as 'See Terms of Use' (licenseId SEE_TERMS_OF_USE, read 2026-10-12 at /api/views/<id>.json), and the portal's Terms of Use link opens the Open Government Licence – City of Edmonton v1.0 (story msh8-if28).
Read by pipeline/sources/events.py (city_calendar) for the what's-on rail, NOT by a generic collector. `begins` is a floating midnight; `start_time` ('13:00:00') is present only when the organiser gave one — rows without it are all-day. `event_link` is an object {url} and is often absent; those rows link to the City's own calendar page. Do NOT use k2ip-5w5d: it is the same data as a calendar VISUALISATION view and returns {} for every row. event_type is free text from two generations of the form ('Festivals' and 'Festival' both occur); passed through as a category hint, not trusted as a taxonomy.
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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.
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.