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weather.gc.ca Atom feed — Edmonton current conditions (live cell)The live temperature, condition, humidex and wind-chill cell. ECCC's own feed for the city page its Edmonton location page links (the PUBLIC_URL coordinates in pipeline/sources/weather.py): one fixed URL, allowed by robots.txt, published for feed readers. Replaced GeoMet's citypage item on 2026-10-03, which robots.txt disallows — owner's call.
LICENCE LINKED 2026-10-12 (owner: a licence link wherever possible): the record's terms are ECCC's Data Servers End-use Licence, cited. LIVE LAYER ONLY, never brief content, and mode 'api' on purpose: 'feed' would have the collector poll the forecast entries as news. functions/live.js currentConditions() reads the Current Conditions entry and nothing else. Its fields are `<b>Label:</b> value<br/>` lines inside CDATA, present only when ECCC has them: Blatchford often reports no Condition, and Wind Chill and Humidex appear only when they apply. The URL's coordinates snap to the nearest city page, so the feed's own <title> ('Edmonton - Weather - Environment Canada') is the identity check, and an entry older than three hours is refused. The datamart's citypage XML carries the same observation, but finding its newest file needs a directory listing, which the MSC usage policy forbids for real-time polling (AMQPS only).
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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.