Canada Health News API

Get the live top health headlines from Canada with our JSON API.

Get API key for the Canada Health News API

API Demonstration

This example demonstrates the HTTP request to make and the JSON response you will receive when you use the news api to get the top headlines from Canada.

GET
https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?country=ca&category=health&apikey=API_KEY
{
    "totalArticles": 288448,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "248c790d149f0019034f3852b3007096",
            "title": "Davis Schneider’s brother died of an overdose. The Blue Jay says naloxone can save others",
            "description": "To Davis Schneider, his older brother Steven was \"kind of like a Superman.\"",
            "content": "To Davis Schneider, his older brother Steven was “kind of like a Superman.”\n“He worked as a nurse up until he died. He worked every single day to help people in need,” the Toronto Blue Jays player said in an interview with The Canadian Press.\n“He was... [4159 chars]",
            "url": "https://globalnews.ca/news/11821836/davis-schneiders-brother-died-of-an-overdose-the-blue-jay-says-naloxone-can-save-others/",
            "image": "https://globalnews.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/d70c0aeb9c3a879db7181c42b275c25cc9a923b19b35b8b3fa99a2da70e29e86.jpg?quality=65&strip=all&w=720&h=379&crop=1",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-29T11:22:57Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "a301f1a787ffad153a758085184d4bbb",
                "name": "Global News",
                "url": "https://globalnews.ca"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "c6309d3d916ec269c509b679efe6143c",
            "title": "what are they and how long do they live?",
            "description": "It is midge season in Toronto, which means one might spot more and more clouds of the tiny, winged insects.",
            "content": "It is midge season in Toronto, which means one might spot more and more clouds of the tiny, winged insects.\nThere are more than 10,000 species of Chironomidae and there are nearly 800 that have been spotted in Canada, according to an entomologist at ... [1861 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.cp24.com/local/toronto/2026/04/29/swarms-of-tiny-bugs-called-midges-are-back-in-toronto-here-is-what-you-need-to-know/",
            "image": "https://www.cp24.com/resizer/v2/62RNJUSTD5A3LCVKYJJEVB3CZI.jpg?smart=true&auth=5aa254387a02bffab859426ef4575d5a756146a9ccc5474ac7d0f6cdd7e6c732&width=1200&height=630",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-29T10:11:37Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "7dd7268139219ad1376ef22df3730d7e",
                "name": "CP24",
                "url": "https://www.cp24.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "2500752abb9909e6c8a223c008bcebd4",
            "title": "Davis Schneider's brother died of an overdose. He says naloxone can save others",
            "description": "The Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction says about 20 people die of opioid overdoses every day in the country.",
            "content": "To Davis Schneider, his older brother Steven was “kind of like a Superman.”\n“He worked as a nurse up until he died. He worked every single day to help people in need,” the Toronto Blue Jays player said in an interview with The Canadian Press.\n“He was... [4473 chars]",
            "url": "https://toronto.citynews.ca/2026/04/29/davis-schneider-toronto-blue-jays-brother-overdose-naloxone/",
            "image": "https://toronto.citynews.ca/wp-content/blogs.dir/sites/10/2026/04/29/Davis-Schneider.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-29T09:28:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "c73f7864450c9f68355c88a2e332225c",
                "name": "CityNews Toronto",
                "url": "https://toronto.citynews.ca"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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