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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": 359066,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "9a5aae9efe8485d9752100db1efeab5e",
            "title": "Un mort et 17 blessés après un accident d’autobus scolaire",
            "description": "Un adolescent a perdu la vie et 17 autres personnes ont été blessées après qu’un autobus scolaire transportant des cadets de Chaudière-Appalaches eut fait une embardée à Sainte-Rose-de-Watford, une petite municipalité de 737 habitants de la région de Chaudière-Appalaches.",
            "content": "(Sainte-Rose-de-Watford, Québec) Un adolescent a perdu la vie et 17 autres personnes ont été blessées après qu’un autobus scolaire transportant des cadets de Chaudière-Appalaches eut fait une embardée à Sainte-Rose-de-Watford, une petite municipalité... [3998 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/justice-et-faits-divers/2026-03-07/chaudiere-appalaches/un-mort-et-17-blesses-apres-un-accident-d-autobus-scolaire.php",
            "image": "https://mobile-img.lpcdn.ca/v2/924x/r3996/c18e51d1d1703f618fc23104ada81eb2.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-03-08T02:28:43Z",
            "lang": "fr",
            "source": {
                "id": "9929f9b2d4820f4ed54220376fab7d4c",
                "name": "La Presse",
                "url": "https://www.lapresse.ca"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "274e857ebeb51ee97d13f9e6557343dd",
            "title": "Elderly woman struck by car in Northland parking lot crosswalk seriously injured",
            "description": "Multiple pedestrians were injured in collisions in Calgary Saturday, including an elderly woman in the Northland Walmart parking lot and a man who was struck by an Uber driver on 14th Street S.W.",
            "content": "Multiple pedestrians were injured in collisions in Calgary Saturday.\nCalgary police say a woman in her 70s was hit by a car at about 3:35 p.m. while crossing a marked crosswalk in the Northland Walmart parking lot in northwest Calgary.\nShe was taken ... [1167 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/calgary-pedestrian-collision-9.7119308",
            "image": "https://i.cbc.ca/ais/77c711d5-3cb1-4837-b06d-98e58cae384b,1772937818389/full/max/0/default.jpg?im=Crop%2Crect%3D%280%2C0%2C6000%2C3375%29%3BResize%3D620",
            "publishedAt": "2026-03-08T02:24:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "aa998c61041906c2082d63fdef6cc33a",
                "name": "CBC",
                "url": "https://www.cbc.ca"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "c52a2d1cb67668dbb70e5dca77faaa29",
            "title": "East Toronto affected by large power outage",
            "description": "At least 5,000 households are in the dark following a power outage that is impacting a large swath of Toronto’s east end, including parts of East York as well as southwest Scarborough, on Saturday night.",
            "content": "At least 5,000 households are in the dark following a power outage that is impacting a large swath of Toronto’s east end, including parts of East York as well as southwest Scarborough, on Saturday night.\nResidents in several neighbourhoods including ... [399 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.cp24.com/local/toronto/2026/03/08/large-power-outage-affecting-torontos-east-end-east-york-and-southwest-scarborough/",
            "image": "https://www.cp24.com/resizer/v2/UUVA2G2ZL5CC3KMZ5QFDKJERWE.png?smart=true&auth=bd0a71e060d98d2f7638556ad4ddf6412b99dcc9f4733d0286d6cb2f60cb5acd&width=1200&height=630",
            "publishedAt": "2026-03-08T01:52:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "7dd7268139219ad1376ef22df3730d7e",
                "name": "CP24",
                "url": "https://www.cp24.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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