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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": 317416,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "da44826cdf9589827e332f7b806d9731",
            "title": "Manitoba teenager sentenced to life for killing three people in 2022",
            "description": "‘The circumstances of the offence indicate the accused engaged in predatory behaviour,’ Justice Gerald Chartier says in ruling",
            "content": "A Manitoba judge has sentenced a teenager to life in prison for killing three vulnerable, Indigenous adults on the streets of Winnipeg in a series of unprovoked attacks, after determining that the maximum youth sentence would not be enough to hold hi... [5391 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-manitoba-teenager-sentenced-to-life-for-killing-three-people-in-2022/",
            "image": "https://www.theglobeandmail.com/resizer/v2/V45XCBHSQZB43IAHMOJ2GIL5LA.JPG?auth=2e85db8349832a1252c92c64b8ab9b718110aba5d40cff80b74d04f5ecce74bc&width=1200&height=800&quality=80&smart=true",
            "publishedAt": "2025-10-30T00:37:23Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "7bf059d2d239a92b25534b00be01732d",
                "name": "The Globe and Mail",
                "url": "https://www.theglobeandmail.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "ca931741c6ac611aa3663222675cc19f",
            "title": "Students return to Alberta schools after historic teachers' strike screeches to a halt",
            "description": "A weeks-long, provincewide teachers’ strike is over after the Alberta government fast-tracked a bill this week that invoked the notwithstanding clause.",
            "content": "Students, parents and teachers were awake before the sun rose in Alberta on Wednesday morning, packing lunches, arranging backpacks and zipping coats — starting their back-to-school routines for the second time this school year.\nA weeks-long, provinc... [5553 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-school-return-students-strike-9.6959223",
            "image": "https://i.cbc.ca/ais/b023fb95-9297-4cdc-a926-ade8e8b131d3,1761774550899/full/max/0/default.jpg?im=Crop%2Crect%3D%280%2C342%2C6566%2C3693%29%3BResize%3D620",
            "publishedAt": "2025-10-30T00:34:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "aa998c61041906c2082d63fdef6cc33a",
                "name": "CBC",
                "url": "https://www.cbc.ca"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "504d81ce06909dc541ca63adfb908ab5",
            "title": "Ontario's premier says US ambassador should apologize for tirade against his diplomat",
            "description": "Ontario Premier Doug Ford has called on Pete Hoekstra, the U.S. ambassador to Canada, to apologize to Ontario’s representative in Washington.",
            "content": "TORONTO (AP) — The leader of Canada’s most populous province on Wednesday said the U.S. ambassador to Canada should apologize to Ontario’s representative in Washington after the ambassador reportedly shouted profanely at him about the province’s anti... [2320 chars]",
            "url": "https://apnews.com/article/canada-ontario-us-ambassador-trump-premier-a2f9cd423f0185447cc5bf80719b87fd",
            "image": "https://dims.apnews.com/dims4/default/0554996/2147483647/strip/true/crop/3000x1688+0+128/resize/1440x810!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2F61%2F77%2F6b3a0b8ba4edb9e8690e097ae01b%2F0e90d701dabc4d7d9ca3ab07ad54d2e8",
            "publishedAt": "2025-10-29T23:13:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "b356d47a35dfffa723fc8131b36c3ed1",
                "name": "AP News",
                "url": "https://apnews.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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