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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": 353800,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "0f86e1e24733599b09840c4ce0783a1b",
            "title": "Canada signing agreement with EU to enhance free trade deal",
            "description": "As relations with the Trump administration remain fraught and uncertain, trade ministers from Canada and the European Union are set to sign on to a series of improvements to their bilateral trade agreement.",
            "content": "As relations with the Trump administration remain fraught and uncertain, trade ministers from Canada and the European Union are set to sign on to a series of improvements to their bilateral trade agreement.\nMaroš Šefčovič, the European Union commissi... [2571 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/ceta-eu-canada-trade-9.7116223",
            "image": "https://i.cbc.ca/ais/6a606b19-573b-45d5-a54b-288df342e296,1772739083280/full/max/0/default.jpg?im=Crop%2Crect%3D%280%2C60%2C3008%2C1692%29%3BResize%3D620",
            "publishedAt": "2026-03-05T19:37:11Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "aa998c61041906c2082d63fdef6cc33a",
                "name": "CBC",
                "url": "https://www.cbc.ca"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "bd0bb535277dfa392dae4c055c765fe7",
            "title": "Montreal police arrest Canada's most wanted fugitive",
            "description": "Montreal police arrested Bryan Fuentes Gramajo, 24, overnight Wednesday. He was wanted in connection with the shooting death of 28-year-old Kashif Jamal Bentley-Jean last July in the parking lot of the Yorkdale Shopping Centre in Toronto.",
            "content": "Montreal police arrested Canada's most wanted fugitive overnight Wednesday, 24-year-old Bryan Fuentes Gramajo, who was wanted in connection with a deadly shooting in Toronto last July.\nFuentes Gramajo was set to appear in court Thursday in Montreal c... [1347 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/montreal-police-arrest-canada-s-most-wanted-fugitive-9.7116105",
            "image": "https://i.cbc.ca/ais/cf7c928d-51b2-483a-af0a-8931ca8fdfad,1772736548891/full/max/0/default.jpg?im=Crop%2Crect%3D%280%2C0%2C1920%2C1080%29%3BResize%3D620",
            "publishedAt": "2026-03-05T19:24:58Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "aa998c61041906c2082d63fdef6cc33a",
                "name": "CBC",
                "url": "https://www.cbc.ca"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "e5fe26a077cdbc8c88e43a00f79e7b81",
            "title": "Man found with gunshot wound in Dartmouth",
            "description": "Regional police are investigating after a man was found with a gunshot wound in Dartmouth on Thursday. At roughly 11:06 a.m, officers responded to a report of an injured man near Wright Avenue and Garland Avenue. Police said they found a 23-year-old man suffering from a gunshot wound, adding he was taken to hospital with […]",
            "content": "NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte says Article 5 is not on the table following Iranian missile strikes over Turkish airspace.\nGas prices across Canada have seen an average increase of nearly 9 cents since the U.S. and Israel's strike on Iran, and as ... [367 chars]",
            "url": "https://halifax.citynews.ca/2026/03/05/heavy-police-presence-reported-in-dartmouth/",
            "image": "https://halifax.citynews.ca/wp-content/blogs.dir/sites/5/2025/12/02/20230816120832-64dcfaeb0d86bfe07f84aed2jpeg-e1718732169428.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-03-05T19:01:42Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "b5df96a63eeb53e366132e9394b2a9e1",
                "name": "CityNews Halifax",
                "url": "https://halifax.citynews.ca"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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