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Strathcona County's performing-arts hall: touring music, theatre, comedy. festivalplace.ca embeds the Showpass SDK and calls exactly this endpoint, so this is the venue's own listing, not a third party's.
Read by pipeline/sources/events.py (festival_place). Paginates by `next`; page_size=100 covers it in one. `starts_on` is UTC ('…Z') with timezone 'Canada/Mountain' alongside; converted to Edmonton. `frontend_url` is null — the event page is www.showpass.com<slug>/. `categories` arrive underscored ('arts_and_theatres'). ROBOTS: www.showpass.com/robots.txt says `Allow: /api/` under `User-agent: *` and also carries ~120 named groups including `User-agent: Web` (Disallow: /); pipeline.http used to match that group against the 'AppleWebKit' in our browser-shaped UA and refuse this path — fixed 2026-08-22 (Rules._product matches the product token, RFC 9309 2.2.1). The same technique reaches any Showpass-powered venue once its numeric venue id is read from the API's own venue.id.
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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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