If yours isn’t here, ask — a person reads it, and the answer usually ends up on this page.
A daily Canadian news brief built around your home city, a city someone you care about lives in, and the topics you tell it to cover. No feed, no ads.
Live web search across real news sources, done fresh for your brief. Every item links to where it came from.
Yes — Claude, Anthropic’s AI, searches the web and writes each brief. It can make mistakes like any AI; the linked source is always the authoritative version.
Yes. Pick from topic categories, or write your own note — “more municipal politics, less sports” — and Kin Wire steers around it.
Yes — home plus one tracked city on the free and Daily plans, or up to two on Home + Away. Tracking a city never notifies or identifies anyone there.
No. No ads, no selling your data, no marketing email unless you opt in.
Yes, from your account’s billing management — it takes effect at the end of your current billing period. You can also delete your account and all its data anytime.
Yes. The national section — four or five things any Canadian should know from the week, each linked to its source — goes out free every Monday to anyone who leaves an email address and confirms it. No account, no card, and it never turns into anything else unless you ask.
You can top up your wallet at $0.50 a brief, or subscribe to Daily ($3/mo) or Home + Away ($8/mo) for a set number of fresh briefs each month. Re-opening one you already have is always free.
Any of them. Nothing is curated and there is no list to be on — you type a Canadian town and it is looked up in a real geographic database, so somewhere with a few hundred people works the same way Toronto does.
Some towns have a page here with a real sample brief on it. That is only so you can read one before signing up; it does not mean those places are supported and others are not.
Then the brief widens out — to the surrounding district, and then the nearest larger centre — and names the place each item is actually about, so you can tell what is from your town and what is from nearby.
It will not pad the space with property listings, tourist information or an article from two years ago. If there genuinely is not much, you get fewer items rather than filler.
It leads with that topic, then covers whatever else is happening where you live once the topic runs out. A small town does not produce three stories a week about any one subject, and a section stretched to fill reads thinner than one that ranges.
Your topics are a steer, not a filter. The one exception is a genuinely major national story, which you get whether or not it matches.
Because the link goes to an outlet’s front page or a category page rather than the article itself. It is marked so you know before you click, rather than being quietly passed off as the story.
The same goes for “older”, which means the page it links to was published more than six weeks ago.
Whenever you open Kin Wire and pull one — it is written on the spot, which takes a minute or two.
You can also have one arrive by email on Monday mornings, at 6am your time. That is off unless you turn it on, and one click stops it.
The linked source is the authoritative version — always trust it over the summary. AI does make mistakes, which is why every item carries its link.
If something is wrong, tell us. It is read by a person, and several things about how briefs are written changed because a reader pointed at one.
No. Kin Wire runs on Anthropic’s commercial API terms, which exclude customer data from model training.
Yes — every brief you have pulled stays in your history, and re-opening one never costs anything. They are kept until you delete your account.
One person in Campbell River, BC. There is a page about who that is, what pays for it, and whether it will still be here next year.
Email hello@kinwire.ca. It reaches one person in Campbell River, and he answers.