Transparency
Alberta Daily aggregates — it does not report. Every source below is public: either an outlet's own RSS feed or an official open data API. News summaries are written in new wording and always link prominently to the original outlet, so the full story is one click away. Weather, events, and map data are presented as structured facts from their sources, not AI-written prose.
News outlets
News is gathered from the public RSS feeds of Alberta news outlets, refreshed several times a day. For each story, an AI model writes an original 150–300 word summary in its own words — never a light rewording of the source — and the outlet that reported it is credited and linked on every card and story page.
Weather
Weather snapshots for major Alberta communities come from Environment and Climate Change Canada (the MSC Datamart citypage feeds), refreshed roughly twice a day.
Events
The events calendar is compiled from the Ticketmaster Discovery API plus the public calendars that Alberta municipalities publish themselves, refreshed daily. Event details are shown as structured facts; always confirm dates and ticketing with the venue or promoter.
Town and county calendars. These 10 municipalities publish their own events as a standard calendar file, and we list what is coming up in the next few months:
- Town of Cardston
- Town of Edson
- Town of Beaumont
- Town of Bonnyville
- Town of Leduc
- Town of Redcliff
- Athabasca County
- Sturgeon County
- M.D. of Opportunity No. 17
- Town of Provost
We take only the facts — what the event is called, when and where it is, and a link straight back to the municipality's own page for it. The write-up a town publishes alongside its listing belongs to that town, so our software does not read that field at all. We also re-check each municipality's robots.txt every single time we fetch, rather than once when the feature was built — a town that decides tomorrow it would rather we didn't is respected the same day, without anyone having to tell us. One town is already excluded that way, and two more are left out because their terms say no or are unclear. If your municipality is listed here and would prefer not to be, tell us on the contact page and we will remove it.
Live maps & official data
The live maps section is driven entirely by official open data and public feeds. Each map credits its source below, links to what it powers, and shows how often the underlying data refreshes.
Licensing & terms
Government of Alberta services.Road, camera, and winter-condition data from Alberta 511 and public-safety alerts from Alberta Emergency Alert are relayed with attribution under Alberta.ca's website terms, which permit non-commercial reproduction with the Government of Alberta identified as the source. We keep those pages non-commercial: no advertising ever runs on a page built from these sources, alert wording is shown verbatim, and camera stills are linked from the official service rather than copied. Always confirm safety-critical conditions with the official source linked on each page.
The aurora forecast. The score on the aurora pageis worked out by a fixed calculation from four things: NOAA's forecast planetary K-index for the hours after dark, Environment Canada's overnight cloud forecast for each region, whether the sky gets astronomically dark at that latitude on that date, and the moon. NOAA space-weather data is US public-domain material. No AI is involved in the score or in the sentence explaining it, and the same inputs always produce the same result. It is a forecast, not a promise — the aurora is genuinely unpredictable.
Road corridor pages. The corridor pagesanswer whether a given route is open. Each verdict is worked out by fixed rules from Alberta 511's live closure and incident data — no AI is involved in deciding or wording it — and the route geometry is Alberta Transportation's own published highway centrelines. An event counts against a corridor only when it is on that road by name and by position, so a closure on a different highway with the same number, or on a side street running alongside, is listed separately and never changes the verdict. These pages carry no advertising.
Oil, gas and drilling figures. The numbers on the oil & gas pagecome from the Government of Alberta's Economic Dashboard, under the same non-commercial terms as the road and alert data above: shown with attribution, and no advertising on that page ever. They are monthly averages, not live market quotes, and the page says which month each figure covers. We publish the figures and what they measure — no forecasts, no advice, and nothing about energy policy. We deliberately do not use Baker Hughes' rig count: their site blocks automated requests, and working around that is not something we do. Alberta publishes its own rig activity, so we use that.
Property tax rates. The comparison on the property tax pageuses rates as filed by each municipality with Alberta Municipal Affairs, published under the Open Government Licence – Alberta — a licence that does permit commercial use, unlike the alberta.ca website terms covering road and alert data. A few figures each year are plainly not rates (one this year works out to a 500% tax); those are withheld and named on the page rather than printed or dropped quietly. Rates are per dollar of assessed value, which is not the same as the price of a comparable house — the page says so before the table, not after it.
Rodeo schedules, draws and results. The rodeo pagelists the Canadian Professional Rodeo Association season — 47 of its 61 stops are in Alberta. Dates, towns, placings and standings are facts, and facts are not copyrightable, so they are re-presented here in our own format with attribution and a link to the CPRA's own page for every stop. We publish text and numbers only: no logos, no broadcast imagery, no photo galleries, and never betting content. We are not affiliated with, and not endorsed by, the CPRA or any rodeo committee — the league name is used only to say whose season it is. The Canadian Finals Rodeo's own site is deliberately not used: its terms permit non-commercial reuse only, and this site carries advertising, so the CFR appears here through the CPRA schedule instead. PBR Canada is not listed at all while its terms remain unresolved.
The daily photo game. Pictures on Somewhere in Albertacome from Wikimedia Commons under free licences — CC0, public domain, CC BY or CC BY-SA — with each one's licence checked through the Commons API and the photograph itself looked at before it goes in. The photographer is credited on every picture. We turn down images whose licence is unclear, including archive photographs marked only “no restrictions”, which is a status rather than a permission. Nothing about your game is collected or stored.
Alberta explained. The explainer pagesare written by us, not generated, and every claim links to where it came from — usually a Government of Alberta page. We state the province's facts in our own words rather than reproducing its text, which is why these pages carry advertising while the ones that relay official wording verbatim do not. Each page says when it was last checked against its sources.
Daylight and the seasons. The daylight pageis not fetched from anywhere — sunrise, sunset, day length and the dates of the solstices and equinoxes are all worked out from the sun's position for each city, by the same calculation behind our aurora forecast. Nothing is looked up, so the same day always produces the same answer, and the figures match the published ones for Edmonton and Calgary to within a minute or two. Times assume a flat horizon: in the mountains the sun goes behind a ridge well before it sets.
Roadside attractions. Locations on the roadside attractions page come from OpenStreetMap contributors under the Open Database Licence, which permits commercial use with attribution — the same licence as our base maps. Which attractions belong on the list is our own editorial choice rather than a map tag: several of the best-known ones, including the St. Paul UFO landing pad and the Torrington Gopher Hole Museum, are filed under different categories and would be missed by any automatic search. Descriptions are written by hand, not generated.
Public health advisories. The health advisories page lists outbreak and exposure notices currently in effect, issued by Provincial Public Health Services and published by the Government of Alberta. We relay them under Alberta.ca's website terms, which permit non-commercial reproduction with the province identified as the source and require that the material not be modified — so titles appear exactly as issued, never summarized or softened, every entry links the official notice, and that page carries no advertising. When we cannot read the province's page in full we say so rather than showing a short list as though it were complete. Boil-water and beach water-quality advisories are issued separately by Alberta Health Services, whose terms permit personal use only, so they are not included and we link AHS for them instead.
Crop reports. The Alberta crop report pagecarries figures from the Alberta Crop Reporting Program, a weekly in-season survey that Agriculture and Irrigation runs with Agriculture Financial Services Corporation and Alberta Agricultural Fieldmen since 1940. They are published under the Open Government Licence – Alberta, which permits commercial use with attribution — unlike the alberta.ca website terms covering our road and alert data. Each report requires that both AFSC and the Government of Alberta be credited, and both are. We publish the numbers and what they measure: no forecasts, no advice, and none of the province's own written commentary. Reporting runs from May to the end of harvest, so the page says plainly when it is between seasons rather than showing last autumn's figures as current.
Council agendas and minutes. The council watchsummarizes what Alberta municipal councils decided, from the minutes each municipality publishes itself. Those are public records under Alberta's Municipal Government Act. We read them from the towns' own meeting portals, whose robots.txt permits it and whose supplier publishes no terms restricting automated access, and we re-check that permission every time we fetch. Where a town's meeting portal refuses automated access we do not take it, however useful it would be — that currently excludes eleven Alberta municipalities, among them Edson, Hinton, Camrose and Cochrane, whose portal supplier blocks every automated reader outright. We publish decisions only, phrased from the record, with every meeting linked back to the official minutes; closed-session, personnel and legal-advice items are removed by software before anything is summarized, and the number withheld is shown on the page. We take no meeting video. We are not affiliated with any municipality. If your municipality would prefer not to be summarized here, tell us on the contact page and we will remove it.
Utility outage data.Power outage areas are relayed read-only from EPCOR's public outage centre, with attribution and a link on every outage page. We do not run advertising on outage pages, we are not affiliated with any utility, and coverage is Edmonton-only until other utilities grant permission — ENMAX, FortisAlberta, and ATCO data is not shown.
Mosquito counts. The mosquito index is our own arithmetic on the City of Edmonton's CO2 trap counts, used under the Open Government Licence – City of Edmonton. The City monitors more than forty trap sites and publishes six to nine of them, so our per-trap average is smaller than the figure the City and the news quote for the same week — which is why the page leads with a comparison against past years rather than a headline count. The City publishes with a lag of one to three weeks; the page works out how old its newest count is and says so. The index and its wording are ours, not the City's.
Paused sources.A couple of maps (Avalanche Canada and live flights) remain offline while we confirm data licensing with each provider. They'll return as permissions are confirmed; each map's page links to the official source in the meantime. The crown-land camping guide is our own curated reference map.
Open licences. Environment and Climate Change Canada data is used under the ECCC Data Servers End-use Licence; federal datasets (wildfire, drought, earthquakes, the Alberta place names we use to work out which part of the province a story is about, and the recalls & safety alerts on our recalls page) under the Open Government Licence – Canada; transit positions under Calgary and Edmonton's municipal open-data terms; Banff parking under the Open Government Licence – Banff; aurora data is NOAA public-domain material; and wildlife sightings show only iNaturalist observations their contributors licensed for commercial reuse (CC0, CC BY, or CC BY-SA), credited to the observer. Base maps are served by OpenFreeMap (free for commercial use) © OpenMapTiles, with data from © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Questions about a source or a correction? See our contact page or our editorial policy.