Edmonton Daily Brief · Sources
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Alberta's francophone newspaper, and the FIRST in-language source in this registry. Until now every one of 473 rows was English, so a francophone readership was served only by whatever it published in English — a whole community visible to us at second hand or not at all.
IN-LANGUAGE SOURCE: the body text is French and nothing in the pipeline translates. Checked before enabling and there is NO language filter anywhere — no langdetect, no ASCII gate, and json is dumped with ensure_ascii=False throughout, so accented text survives. gate0_provenance is a substring match through _squash(), which NFKC-normalises but does not strip accents, so a quote lifted verbatim from French source text matches. THE RESIDUAL RISK IS THE DRAFTER, not a filter: if it TRANSLATES a quote instead of quoting it, gate0 rejects the sentence and the item can vanish with no error. That failure would be silent and would look like the source producing nothing, so the first edition carrying a Le Franco item is worth reading rather than trusting.
If this is yours and you want it left out, write to [email protected]. We stop reading it and withdraw everything that cited it, past editions included. Every source · How this paper is made
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: [email protected], 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.