Canada Nation News API

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

Get API key for the Canada Nation 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=nation&apikey=API_KEY
{
    "totalArticles": 380364,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "377de60ef4d07f4673dbf8de71eb80db",
            "title": "Boil water advisory issued for Sudbury, New Sudbury and Falconbridge",
            "description": "‘The cause of the adverse samples is being investigated,’ officials say.",
            "content": "Article content\n“The cause of the adverse samples is being investigated, and this boil water advisory is in effect as a precaution. We don’t believe that anyone who has consumed the water will experience any ill health effects,” Burgess Hawkins, a ma... [1441 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.thesudburystar.com/news/boil-water-advisory-issued-for-sudbury-new-sudbury-and-falconbridge",
            "image": "https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nexus/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/1129-td-a1-water-rates.td_-1.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-05-06T22:41:41Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "4212b7ae16f179fb67162ff65ddb6375",
                "name": "Sudbury Star",
                "url": "https://www.thesudburystar.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "2205d06ea81e092083982ccc17d5c7be",
            "title": "Milliard s’échappe en évoquant \" deux langues officielles \"",
            "description": "La CAQ et le PQ l'accusent d'ignorer le statut juridique du français au Québec, des critiques que le chef libéral assimile à des « inepties ».",
            "content": "Le chef du Parti libéral du Québec (PLQ), Charles Milliard, se voit à nouveau dépeint par ses adversaires politiques comme un politicien manquant de considération pour le français et pour l'avenir de celui-ci en Amérique du Nord.\nM. Milliard, qui s'e... [5940 chars]",
            "url": "https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2251966/charles-milliard-plq-langues-officielles",
            "image": "https://images.radio-canada.ca/q_auto,w_1250/v1/ici-info/16x9/charles-milliard-13496.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-05-06T21:24:18Z",
            "lang": "fr",
            "source": {
                "id": "197e8e0f338b074f642026d5a319d658",
                "name": "Radio-Canada",
                "url": "https://ici.radio-canada.ca"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "34b40fc7254392813ef4d6291f1c0891",
            "title": "Anonymous Canadian critic of Trump sues U.S. government for trying to unmask him",
            "description": "Plaintiff, identified as ‘John Doe,’ says Homeland Security is trying to force Google to disclose information about his identity",
            "content": "The U.S. government wants Google to unmask an anonymous Canadian critic of President Donald Trump, a move the American Civil Liberties Union says could have a chilling effect on free speech.\nThe Canadian citizen who posts anonymous online criticism o... [3238 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-anonymous-critic-trump-john-doe-dhs-homeland-security/",
            "image": "https://www.theglobeandmail.com/resizer/v2/MLR5RNC7DRETTLYQKELNXKL7C4.jpg?auth=435e696f44279192af76caaea5c6bd880b8f0800c1787bb7affd5dde1fe27c7e&width=1200&height=800&quality=80&smart=true",
            "publishedAt": "2026-05-06T20:53:01Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "7bf059d2d239a92b25534b00be01732d",
                "name": "The Globe and Mail",
                "url": "https://www.theglobeandmail.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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