If yours isn’t here, ask — a person reads it, and the answer usually ends up on this page.
A short Canadian news brief built around your home city, a city someone you care about lives in, and the topics you told it to cover. No feed, no ads. It closed on 3 November 2026.
Live web search across real news sources, done fresh for each brief. Every item links to where it came from, and the briefs still on this site are unchanged.
Yes — Claude, Anthropic’s AI, searched the web and wrote each brief. It can make mistakes like any AI; the linked source is always the authoritative version.
Yes. Topic categories to pick from, or your own note — “more municipal politics, less sports” — which Kin Wire steered around.
Yes — home plus one tracked city on the free and Daily plans, or up to two on Home + Away. Tracking a city never notified or identified anyone there.
No. No ads, no selling your data, no marketing email unless you opted in. The advertising conversion tags came off on 4 November 2026, and all reader data is deleted on 3 December 2026.
Nothing is being charged, and Billing in your account still cancels it: that is the one money path deliberately left open. You can also delete your account and all its data immediately, and everything left is deleted on 3 December 2026.
The national section — four or five things any Canadian should know from the week, each linked to its source — went out free every Monday to anyone who left an email address and confirmed it. It stopped when Kin Wire closed on 3 November 2026, and the last one is still readable.
No. Kin Wire closed on 3 November 2026: the checkout refuses, the prices are archived, and no briefs are being written. The last national brief and the city samples are left up to read.
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 was only so you could read one before signing up; it never meant those places were supported and others were 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 a reader opened Kin Wire and pulled one — it was written on the spot, which took a minute or two.
One could also arrive by email on Monday mornings, at 6am local time, for anyone who switched it on. Both stopped when Kin Wire closed.
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 — hello@kinwire.ca still reaches a person. Several things about how briefs were 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.
Until 3 December 2026, yes — every brief you pulled is still in your history and re-opening one costs nothing. On that date every account and every stored brief is deleted, which is what readers were told by email. The Delete account button does it sooner.
One person in Campbell River, BC. There is a page about who that is, what paid for it, and why it closed.
Email hello@kinwire.ca. It reaches one person in Campbell River, and he answers.