Canada

News coverage about Canada accounts for 3.18% of all coverage GDELT monitors worldwide as of October 4, 2026. Output is down 7.0% week-over-week. The average tone of this coverage is -0.47 — mildly negative.

CA · CAN · North America · Wikidata

Data updated: · refreshed every 3 hours from GDELT

Coverage share
3.18%
of monitored articles
Week over week
-7.0%
7-day mean vs prior
Average tone
-0.47
mildly negative
Refresh tier
Priority
~2-3h cadence

Coverage volume, last 90 days

Canada coverage volume: 91 days, latest 3.18% on 2026-10-040.002.55.0Jul 6Jul 22Aug 7Aug 23Sep 8Sep 24Oct 4

Coverage tone, last 90 days

Canada coverage tone: 91 days, latest tone -0.47 on 2026-10-04+20-2Jul 6Jul 22Aug 7Aug 23Sep 8Sep 24Oct 4

Event activity (CAMEO-coded)

Protests (2/day latest)

Protest events located in Canada: 89 days, latest 2.00 on 2026-10-040.0025.050.0Jul 6Jul 21Aug 5Aug 20Sep 5Sep 21Oct 4

Diplomacy (59/day latest)

Diplomatic events located in Canada: 91 days, latest 59.00 on 2026-10-040.0012502500Jul 6Jul 22Aug 7Aug 23Sep 8Sep 24Oct 4

Coercion & force (7/day latest)

Coercive events located in Canada: 91 days, latest 7.00 on 2026-10-040.005001000Jul 6Jul 22Aug 7Aug 23Sep 8Sep 24Oct 4

CAMEO-coded events geolocated to Canada, counted daily from GDELT's event stream (protests: root 14; diplomacy: 04–05; coercion through mass violence: 17–20).

Coverage origin: local vs international

Over the last two weeks, 35% of the coverage about Canada came from outlets based in Canada — the rest was written from abroad (74,560 articles with a known outlet home country).

Daily share of coverage about Canada from domestic outlets (%): 91 days, latest 15.77 on 2026-10-040.0025.050.0Jul 6Jul 22Aug 7Aug 23Sep 8Sep 24Oct 4

Share of articles about Canada produced by domestic outlets, computed daily across GDELT's English and translated streams. Outlet home countries are mapped per news domain (GDELT source-country data); articles from unmapped outlets are excluded from the denominator. A very low share during major events can mean the story is being told about a place rather than from it.

Most-mentioned places

  • Toronto (112)
  • Montreal (68)
  • Vancouver (50)
  • Quebec (40)
  • Ottawa (35)
  • Calgary (17)
  • Grand Forks (12)
  • Winnipeg (11)
  • Saskatchewan (10)
  • Portage La Prairie (7)
  • High Prairie (5)
  • Okanagan (5)

Places named in coverage about Canada on 2026-10-04 (GDELT location extraction; article counts).

Active topics in coverage about Canada

Country indicators

GDP (current US$)
$2.32T
World Bank, 2025
Population
41.7M
World Bank, 2025
Trade (% of GDP)
63.5%
World Bank, 2025
Military expenditure (% of GDP)
1.3%
World Bank, 2024

Armed conflict, trailing 12 months

Conflict fatalities
1
best estimate
Civilian deaths
1
within the above
Recorded events
1
organized violence

Source: Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP GED), window 2025-10-01..2026-09-30, refreshed monthly. Recent months are preliminary candidate data.

Displacement, end of 2025

Internally displaced
0
within the country
Refugees abroad
360
originating from Canada
Refugees hosted
416,028
from other countries
Asylum seekers
314,475
pending claims, hosted

Source: UNHCR Refugee Data Finder, year-end 2025 stocks, plus 10,288 stateless persons. IDP figures cover conflict-displaced populations reported to UNHCR.

Monitored relationships

Each link opens the bilateral co-coverage dashboard for the pair.

Coverage share measures articles published by Canada-based outlets as a share of all GDELT-monitored coverage — see methodology. Derived data is CC BY 4.0 (“Geotone / GDELT”).