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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": 357214,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "8f62a04b4aaf4c5c6bc2e2ceba2a80d8",
            "title": "An Edmonton man was convicted of killing a sex offender in jail. He's now been found guilty of another homicide",
            "description": "Months after he was found guilty of killing a sex offender in an Edmonton jail, Clayton Berard has been convicted of a second killing.",
            "content": "Article content\nMonths after he was found guilty of killing a sex offender in an Edmonton jail, Clayton Berard has been convicted of a second homicide.\nTHIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY\nSubscribe now to read the latest news in your city a... [4259 chars]",
            "url": "https://edmontonjournal.com/news/crime/an-edmonton-man-was-convicted-of-killing-a-sex-offender-in-jail-hes-now-been-found-guilty-of-another-homicide",
            "image": "https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/edmontonjournal/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/george-spady-2557.ej_302237216.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-03-24T04:16:13Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "e1bb7faab7a09cc8de613baac0095d5f",
                "name": "Edmonton Journal",
                "url": "https://edmontonjournal.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "c65e048d33d9c764f669353f1d32512d",
            "title": "Air Canada passengers recount moment of deadly collision on LaGuardia runway",
            "description": "Air Canada passengers who were aboard Flight 8646 when the CRJ-900 aircraft struck a fire truck upon landing at New York's LaGuardia Airport on Sunday evening say the collision was sudden and forceful, and they may owe their lives to the pilots who died in the incident.",
            "content": "Air Canada passengers who were aboard Flight 8646 when the CRJ-900 aircraft struck a fire truck upon landing at New York's LaGuardia Airport on Sunday evening say the collision was sudden and forceful, and they may owe their lives to the pilots who d... [2153 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/air-canada-fire-truck-crash-passenger-witness-accounts-9.7139519",
            "image": "https://i.cbc.ca/ais/d48f3c2a-7178-4356-9028-f2cb177a3179,1774310288451/full/max/0/default.jpg?im=Crop%2Crect%3D%280%2C823%2C8289%2C4662%29%3BResize%3D620",
            "publishedAt": "2026-03-24T02:08:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "aa998c61041906c2082d63fdef6cc33a",
                "name": "CBC",
                "url": "https://www.cbc.ca"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "51963692251565a9b40fa0854033da5a",
            "title": "Il faut plus d’enquêtes sur les visas d’étudiants étrangers, affirme la VG",
            "description": "De 2023 à 2024, 150 000 visas d'étudiants étrangers auraient enfreint leurs permis d'études selon la vérificatrice générale, qui appelle à plus de surveillance.",
            "content": "La vérificatrice générale Karen Hogan affirme que le ministère de l'Immigration n'a pas enquêté ni donné suite à un grand nombre de « cas à haut risque » qui compromettent l'intégrité du Programme des étudiants internationaux.\nDans un nouveau rapport... [7783 chars]",
            "url": "https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2241172/visa-etudiant-permis-etude-verificatrice-generale",
            "image": "https://images.radio-canada.ca/q_auto,w_1250/v1/ici-info/16x9/etudiants-campus-universite-hiver.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-03-24T01:54:09Z",
            "lang": "fr",
            "source": {
                "id": "197e8e0f338b074f642026d5a319d658",
                "name": "Radio-Canada",
                "url": "https://ici.radio-canada.ca"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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