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Canada Nation News API

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

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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": 374106,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "dc54b1cca17b302d8af0f431cbda2fd7",
            "title": "Province clearing out Abbotsford, B.C., RV camp",
            "description": "The last two residents at the Cole Road rest stop on Highway 1 are packing up their things, as the province clears the Abbotsford encampment where dozens of people lived in RVs over the past few years.",
            "content": "The last two residents at the Cole Road rest stop on Highway 1 are packing up their things, as the province clears the Abbotsford encampment where dozens of people lived in RVs over the past few years.\n\"All people sheltering must vacate the premises,... [2241 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/local/abbotsford-encampment-clearing-out-9.7155716",
            "image": "https://i.cbc.ca/ais/5e91949f-2f93-4fc0-acd9-b0e13c14060e,1775608124937/full/max/0/default.jpg?im=Crop%2Crect%3D%280%2C0%2C1920%2C1080%29%3BResize%3D620",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-08T01:59:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "aa998c61041906c2082d63fdef6cc33a",
                "name": "CBC",
                "url": "https://www.cbc.ca"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "51cd9e2337c0e4b7817b51dfc422e8e1",
            "title": "‘Tyranny of the minority’: Court hears injunction bid on Alberta separatism petition",
            "description": "The Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation is in Edmonton asking a Court of King’s Bench judge to suspend the petition campaign on the grounds First Nations’ consent is required first.",
            "content": "A court hearing began Tuesday for an Alberta First Nation’s request to at least temporarily put on ice an Alberta separatism petition to force a vote on whether the province should quit Canada.\nSturgeon Lake Cree Nation, as well as a handful of other... [3996 chars]",
            "url": "https://globalnews.ca/news/11767326/first-nation-alberta-separation-injunction/",
            "image": "https://globalnews.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/714b4cfb5942773bcc21d8ba944742ac69ba521ebbae32e41bb753fe41d572fc.jpg?quality=65&strip=all&w=720&h=379&crop=1",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-08T01:30:03Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "a301f1a787ffad153a758085184d4bbb",
                "name": "Global News",
                "url": "https://globalnews.ca"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "6e6212cf90b0128abee54313204e6aae",
            "title": "Alberta lawyers, former Mountie call for criminal probe into Edmonton police chief, lawyer",
            "description": "A former Mountie and the Criminal Trial Lawyers' Assoc. say the EPS chief and lawyer should be investigated for their involvement in eight-year-old Nina Napope's manslaughter case.",
            "content": "A retired Mountie and a group representing Alberta’s defence lawyers are both calling for a third-party investigation into possible criminal behaviour by the Edmonton Police Service chief and his top departmental lawyer.\nThe Criminal Trial Lawyers’ A... [6497 chars]",
            "url": "https://globalnews.ca/news/11768309/alberta-defence-lawyers-eps-chief-lawyer-nina-napope-case/",
            "image": "https://globalnews.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/61396b47d88d546562d27310db97366c1e20d7bd0cc1fce90012353f7e433f53_0a365f.jpg?quality=65&strip=all&w=720&h=379&crop=1",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-08T01:24:51Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "a301f1a787ffad153a758085184d4bbb",
                "name": "Global News",
                "url": "https://globalnews.ca"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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