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One of the three big rooms that needed its own adapter.
Mode `html`, read by pipeline/sources/events.py — NOT `scrape`. Server-rendered; robots disallows only /pdf/, /umbraco/, /leasing/. NO YEAR anywhere on the page: the harvester infers one (events.infer_year) and refuses to guess beyond 120 days; rows carry date_inferred so the page can qualify them. NO HOURS ARE FETCHABLE, ESTABLISHED 2026-08-24 — DO NOT RE-CHASE THIS. The owner saw Afterglow Skate Nights showing as all-day when the rink runs it 9pm-11:30pm. Those hours are in NOTHING we can fetch. The listing page publishes date RANGES only ('Mon, Aug 24 to Sat, Aug 29'). The event page's only JSON-LD is @type ShoppingCenter, not Event, and the ONLY times in its HTML are THE MALL'S OPENING HOURS, '11:00 AM to 6:00 PM'. The Ice Palace page (/play/attractions/ice-palace) names the event and carries no times at all. The 9pm-11:30pm is rendered client-side. THE TRAP: a time-grab on the event page returns 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM and publishes the mall's opening hours as the skate session's — precise, plausible and wrong, and it would look right to everyone including the owner, who knows it is 9pm. That is strictly worse than reporting the hour as unpublished. These rows carry time_unknown=True, which is the truthful record, and the fix belongs in the renderer.
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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.