# Government of Canada — national news releases — generated connector definition (see docs/connectors/canada-news.md)
id: canada-news
name: "Government of Canada \u2014 national news releases"
domain: www.canada.ca
kind: government
mode: rss
priority: 2
license: "Open Government Licence \u2013 Canada"
attribution: "Government of Canada (canada.ca)"
homepage: https://www.canada.ca/
notes: "Public Canada.ca news API (Atom). Not keyword-filtered; the relevance filter keeps data centre / AI compute announcements only."
coverage: { countries: ["CA"] }
fetch:
  level: 1
  maxLevel: 2
  rpm: 10
  concurrency: 1
  respectRobots: true
  maxCreditsPerRun: 0
discovery:
  rss:
    - "https://api.io.canada.ca/io-server/gc/news/en/v2?type=newsreleases&sort=publishedDate&orderBy=desc&pick=50&format=atom&atomtitle=National%20News"
  include: ["^https://www\\.canada\\.ca/(en|fr)/[a-z0-9-]+/news/"]
  classify:
    - { pattern: "/news/20\\d\\d/", group: newsroom, pageType: press_release, priority: 70 }
schedule:
  newsroom: daily
  rss: daily
extractors:
  news:
    pageTypes: [press_release, project_announcement, expansion, acquisition, construction_update, planning_document, power_infrastructure, utility_announcement, closure, cloud_region, financial_disclosure, facility_page, operator_page, unknown]
    kind: news_event
    parser: news_article_v1
    params: { keepText: true }