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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": 342182,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "88fff59a603a4d05656f56bb409f774d",
            "title": "Jivani’s trip to Washington has some Conservative MPs scratching their heads",
            "description": "Jamil Jivani’s office has refused to say who the Conservative MP met with on solo sojourn to D.C., but he told an American reporter he met with both Vance and Rubio.",
            "content": "Jamil Jivani’s solo mission to Washington has provoked confusion and consternation among some of his Conservative colleagues who want to avoid the party looking cozy with Donald Trump’s administration.\nJivani, a friend of U.S. Vice-President JD Vance... [4400 chars]",
            "url": "https://globalnews.ca/news/11656578/jamil-jivani-trip-washington-conservative-mps/",
            "image": "https://globalnews.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/CP17356281-e1661524553264.jpg?quality=65&strip=all&w=720&h=379&crop=1",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-06T20:55:34Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "a301f1a787ffad153a758085184d4bbb",
                "name": "Global News",
                "url": "https://globalnews.ca"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "70c6a81b01fe7feb4d93edfaad35f4ed",
            "title": "Coquitlam secondary school placed under precautionary lockdown again following threat",
            "description": "The threat was received by multiple schools, the district says and has resulted in GOAL and Vanier, across the street from Centennial, to also be placed in lockdown.",
            "content": "A Coquitlam secondary school was placed under a precautionary lockdown on Friday following another threat, the school district says.\nCentennial Secondary was under lockdown for a few hours, but that how now been lifted, according to a post on the dis... [2160 chars]",
            "url": "https://globalnews.ca/news/11656406/coquitlam-secondary-school-precautionary-lockdown-again-threat/",
            "image": "https://globalnews.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/centenial-secondary-school.png?w=720&h=379&crop=1",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-06T20:07:45Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "a301f1a787ffad153a758085184d4bbb",
                "name": "Global News",
                "url": "https://globalnews.ca"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "9856bb14ed5f5d2fc8e49c315d30de4f",
            "title": "China Reverses Death Penalty for Canadian in Drug-Smuggling Case",
            "description": "The ruling by China’s highest court followed a recent meeting between China and Canada’s top leaders led to a thaw in the two countries’ relations.",
            "content": "China’s highest court on Friday overturned a death sentence against a Canadian man convicted of drug smuggling, a sudden reversal in a case that has been a yearslong source of diplomatic friction between Beijing and Ottawa.\nThe case of the man, Rober... [1458 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/world/asia/china-canada-death-sentence-overturned.html",
            "image": "https://static01.nyt.com/images/2026/02/06/multimedia/06int-china-canada-phfb/06int-china-canada-phfb-facebookJumbo.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-06T19:52:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "2f580dc49292a1caf59cd86dd3c9e60b",
                "name": "The New York Times",
                "url": "https://www.nytimes.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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