You got a short Canadian news brief whenever you wanted one: what was happening where you live, and what was happening where they do. Every item linked to the reporting it came from.
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What the national section was, and the last one →
This is what landed that morning. A real brief, not a mock-up — generated exactly the way a reader's was.
On The Lawn powered by BDO marked its 10th anniversary this summer, pushing the Kelowna fundraiser's total support for local youth outdoor recreation past $290,000, with the decade-old summer fundraiser having begun in 2015 as a way to bring Kelowna businesses and young professionals together for a lawn bowling tournament in support of youth access to outdoor recreation. It has since grown into one of the city's most anticipated summer events, regularly selling out within minutes of registration opening.
During a meeting on Monday, Aug. 31, councillors were presented with the "Kelowna Creates" plan which will help guide investment direction for the city's cultural development from 2027 to 2031, and by the end of discussions on the topic, council unanimously voted to endorse the plan. A key part of the plan is a call for the city to increase investment into culture to $40 per capita, rather than the current $27.74 per capita. Cultural services manager Christine McWillis said the plan "describes a community, Kelowna, that leads cultural vibrancy in British Columbia by investing in the creative ecosystem, one that strengthens our economy and enriches our quality of life, belonging and well-being."
Honest Mini Market, located at 2340 Silver Place, welcomed customers for the first time Saturday at 10 a.m. Owner Aaron Li and his wife Shayla have worked hard to get the store up and running, supplying roughly 80 per cent of its produce from their own 13-acre property right out back. Right now they have watermelon, cantaloupe, figs, peaches, apples, and pears, with 40 different kinds of produce, and the mini market was lined up nearly out the door around 10 a.m. on Saturday, with plenty of locals eager to support the local small business.
A local staging of Come From Away wrapped its Fredericton run to full houses, with demand so strong that a local production of Come From Away playing in New Brunswick's three major cities sold out its Fredericton run early on, but ticket listings are still popping up on resale sites for prices up to $1,400. In Fredericton specifically, every show of the co-production with the Saint John Theatre Company sold out quickly, even prompting the company to add two additional shows, while a ticket from the Fredericton Playhouse box office cost between $50 and $80 plus tax, but on resale sites prices range from around over $600 to over $1,400.
Down the highway in Moncton, a class-action lawsuit against a former nurse accused of misconduct has run into a complication after lawyers in the class-action lawsuit are looking to replace their lead plaintiff after she died suddenly last month. The suit centres on allegations that Jayde Scott had been representing many mothers who say Nicole Ruest gave them labour-inducing drugs without their consent, and with Scott having died on Aug. 11 at the age of 33, the case now hinges on whether her family can step in to keep it moving forward — a story closely watched across the Maritimes for what it could mean for maternity care oversight.
Canada's retaliatory tariffs on American goods take effect this week after Ottawa vowed to match Washington's levies dollar-for-dollar and rate-for-rate, a response to the U.S. slapping a 50 per cent tariff on $27.6 billion worth of Canadian exports. Following the U.S. decision to impose a 50 per cent tariff on $27.6 billion of Canadian goods effective August 22, Minister Champagne confirmed Canada will match the new U.S. tariffs dollar for dollar, rate for rate, with additional Canadian tariffs on U.S. goods. Talks toward a comprehensive trade deal had been ongoing, but the U.S. proposed new terms seen as asking too much of Canada while offering too little in return, prompting Ottawa to suspend negotiations rather than accept a bad deal.
The uneasy relationship between the two countries' leaders played out publicly over the weekend when the U.S. president posted a mocking cartoon of himself and Prime Minister Mark Carney. Trump shared an image on Truth Social of the two leaders playing hockey, showing himself in a USA Hockey jersey standing over a fallen Carney dressed in a Hockey Canada sweater, taunting him to get back up and referring to him as a governor. The post came just days before Canada's tariffs on U.S. products take effect Tuesday, targeting nearly $28 billion worth of more than 700 American goods.
Written by Claude from live web search. Every item shows where it came from, and says so when the best link available is a section page rather than the article itself — what the markers mean. Yours would have been the same shape, with your two cities in it and the topics you asked for.
I built Kin Wire because I think technology should make us better, not worse. Most of what sits between you and the news about your own town is built the other way round: ads, a paywall two paragraphs in, a feed that decides for you, and nineteen stories about somewhere else for every one about home.
This is the same technology pointed the other way. It strips out everything I didn't ask for and gives me what I did — a few things worth knowing about the towns I actually care about, each one linked to the reporting it came from so I can check it myself.
Nobody would pay for it, which is fair enough. But it worked, and what made it work was the rules. So here they are. Free, no account, nothing to sign up for. Take it, change it, make it yours.
‹angle brackets› with your own towns — one is enough, up to three.You are my local news curator. Search the web, then write me a short news brief for today. WHERE — one town is enough; delete the lines you don't need, up to three in all - Home: ‹my town, province› - Also: ‹town, province› — someone I care about lives there - Also: ‹town, province› - I follow: ‹topics, or "whatever matters locally"› Cover only the towns I listed, one section each, in the order I wrote them, headed with the town's name. Never add a town I didn't ask for. FORMAT Up to 5 items per section. Five is a ceiling, not a target — give me only the items that are genuinely recent local news for that place. One item per line. Each item: a **bolded lead-in phrase**, then 45–60 words — what happened, one or two concrete details (a number, a name, a date), and why it matters to someone living there. One or two sentences. Then, on its own line, the link to the article you took it from. No preamble, no sign-off, and never tell me what you searched for or how much you found. The brief and nothing else. RULES — each of these is here because the opposite went wrong 1. Recent only. Everything must have happened or been reported in the last few days. Check the publication date of every page before you use it. Never present an older story as current, even when it is the top search result. 2. Link to the article itself, never an outlet's front page or a "News" section page. If a homepage is all you can find, search again for the specific story, or drop the item. 3. No round-ups. Nothing from a newsletter, a personal blog, a Substack, or anything titled "ICYMI", "this week in" or "week in review" — they republish old items as if they were new. 4. One item, one story. Never merge two unrelated developments because they appeared on the same page. 5. Paraphrase in your own words. No direct quotes. 6. No more than two items in a section from the same outlet, and never follow one article's own choice or ordering of facts. 7. Every sentence must add a new fact. Never restate the same point in different words. 8. If a town is small and quiet, widen the PLACE, never the date — the surrounding district, then the nearest larger centre — and name the place each item is actually about. I can see distance; I cannot see age. 9. Never pad a section to reach five. Two strong items are a better brief than five where three were filler, and I would rather see a short section than a stretched one. The same story must not appear twice in a section, or in two sections, in different words. 10. These are never news and must not fill a section: property or real-estate listings, tourism and visitor pages, business directories, event aggregators, "what to do this weekend", background facts about the town (population, history, when it was incorporated), and standing schedules such as when council usually meets. Write fewer items instead. 11. If after widening there is genuinely nothing recent for a place, say so in one short line and stop. Do not fill the space.
Scrolls — the button copies all of it, every rule.
Want the national news in it too? Paste this on the end.
Then a final section headed "Across Canada": up to three things any Canadian should know today, same format and same rules.
What it can't do, which is worth knowing. It won't remember yesterday — Kin Wire kept every headline it had sent you and refused to repeat one, and the manual version is to paste yesterday's bolded lead-ins back in with “Don't repeat any of these — find different stories.”. It won't arrive on its own; you have to go and ask. And it won't check itself: Kin Wire measured every brief before a reader saw it — how many items had a real article link, whether a source was older than it looked — and withheld the email rather than send a thin one. In a chat window you are that check. Click the links.
The Across Canada section on its own, in an inbox Monday morning: four or five things any Canadian should know from the week, each one linked to its source. Read the last one →
The Monday email has stopped, and there is nothing to sign up for.
It started with 3 briefs free and no card. After that it was $3/month — 8 briefs a month, every one searched, written and linked the day it was asked for. Nothing is for sale now.
Following two other cities instead of one was $8/month. Everything else about what it charged →
What was Kin Wire?
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.
Where did the news come from?
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.
Was it written by AI?
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.
Could I choose what it covered?
Yes. Topic categories to pick from, or your own note — “more municipal politics, less sports” — which Kin Wire steered around.
Could I follow another city?
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.
Do you sell my information?
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. Privacy Policy →
I still have a subscription — what now?
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.
Is there anything free without an account?
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. Read the last one →
Can I still sign up or buy it?
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. Why it closed →
Kin Wire worked for any Canadian town. These ones have a page of their own, with a real sample on it — still readable, and still sourced.
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