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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": 345232,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "ddd432218ebe555752e5f1e5fa8995f1",
            "title": "Military police 'rushed to judgment' before officer's suicide, watchdog finds",
            "description": "Canada's military police watchdog is sharply criticizing the handling of a sexual assault investigation involving Maj. Cristian Hiestand, an air force officer who took his own life in January 2022.",
            "content": "Canada's military police watchdog issued a scathing report on Thursday over the handling of an investigation into an air force officer who was charged with sexual assault and later took his own life in early 2022.\nIn the weeks leading up to his death... [5117 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/military-police-sexual-assault-investigation-misconduct-9.7086691",
            "image": "https://i.cbc.ca/ais/c983286c-06cf-4921-b8f5-d4bb6e8b842a,1770920873498/full/max/0/default.jpg?im=Crop%2Crect%3D%280%2C127%2C450%2C253%29%3BResize%3D620",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-12T18:35:45Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "aa998c61041906c2082d63fdef6cc33a",
                "name": "CBC",
                "url": "https://www.cbc.ca"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "dca61c6ae8fe3f2b9ac27a84da46a9b0",
            "title": "Ontario ends tuition freeze at public colleges and universities, boosts funding",
            "description": "Post-secondary institutions will be allowed to increase their tuition fees by two per cent per year for three years, before switching to an inflation-informed increase after that.",
            "content": "The Ford government will end its freeze on post-secondary tuition this year, allowing struggling colleges and universities to raise fees as they adapt to the reality of fewer international students.\nBeginning in September, post-secondary institutions... [5422 chars]",
            "url": "https://globalnews.ca/news/11664551/ontario-post-secondary-tuition-fee-freeze-end/",
            "image": "https://globalnews.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/CP216505287.jpg?quality=65&strip=all&w=720&h=379&crop=1",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-12T15:34:51Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "a301f1a787ffad153a758085184d4bbb",
                "name": "Global News",
                "url": "https://globalnews.ca"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "8bbacafdc823d92989d94759bda54758",
            "title": "Ce qu’on sait de l’auteure de la tuerie de Tumbler Ridge",
            "description": "Le domicile de Jesse Van Rootselaar avait fait l'objet d'interventions de la police pour des appels en lien avec des problèmes de santé mentale.",
            "content": "Le domicile familial de la jeune femme à l'origine de la fusillade mortelle survenue en milieu scolaire à Tumbler Ridge, en Colombie-Britannique, avait fait l'objet d'interventions de la police en lien avec des armes à feu et des problèmes de santé m... [4190 chars]",
            "url": "https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2228233/jesse-van-rootselaar-tumblr-ridge",
            "image": "https://images.radio-canada.ca/q_auto,w_1250/v1/ici-info/16x9/tumbler-ridge-cb-hommage-victimes-fusillade-ecole-secondaire.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-12T14:40:29Z",
            "lang": "fr",
            "source": {
                "id": "197e8e0f338b074f642026d5a319d658",
                "name": "Radio-Canada",
                "url": "https://ici.radio-canada.ca"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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