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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": 4132848,
    "articles": [
        {
            "title": "Woman dead in two vehicle hit-and-run in Scarborough",
            "description": "Toronto police are searching for two vehicles that struck a pedestrian in Scarborough on Thursday night, leaving them with serious injuries",
            "content": "Toronto police are searching for two vehicles that struck and killed a woman in Scarborough on Thursday night.\nInvestigators say a woman, believed to be in her 20s, was crossing Birchmount Road just north of St. Clair Avenue East around 9:30 p.m. whe... [734 chars]",
            "url": "https://toronto.citynews.ca/2025/05/08/pedestrian-seriously-injured-after-being-struck-by-2-vehicles-police/",
            "image": "https://toronto.citynews.ca/wp-content/blogs.dir/sites/10/2025/05/08/birchmount-ped-struck.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2025-05-09T01:53:00Z",
            "source": {
                "name": "CityNews Toronto",
                "url": "https://toronto.citynews.ca"
            }
        },
        {
            "title": "B.C. resident searched at additional border checkpoint says it was ‘very strange’",
            "description": "\"It was just very strange, the whole incident. I don't know what they were looking for. They didn't even have me step out of the car, I just had to put the car in neutral.\"",
            "content": "David Steinebach from Langley was returning to B.C. in April after going down to Lynden in Washington state to buy some gas.\n“I would still go down there every week to go get gas,” he told Global News.\n“I have Nexus, so it’s very easy and fast for me... [2864 chars]",
            "url": "https://globalnews.ca/news/11171452/bc-resident-searched-additional-border-checkpoint-very-strange/",
            "image": "https://globalnews.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/US-Cda-Tariffs-flags.jpg?quality=85&strip=all&w=720&h=379&crop=1",
            "publishedAt": "2025-05-09T01:23:38Z",
            "source": {
                "name": "Global News",
                "url": "https://globalnews.ca"
            }
        },
        {
            "title": "Disappearance of two children has rocked rural Nova Scotia community",
            "description": "After calling off search and rescue teams for Jack, 4, and Lilly Sullivan, 6, police say they’re zeroing in on specific search areas and investigating possible criminal elements",
            "content": "Open this photo in gallery: Kids art and school work on the wall in the home of missing siblings Jack, 4, and Lilly Sullivan, 6, in Pictou County, NS, on May 8. The siblings disappeared from their home without a trace nearly a week agoSteve Wadden/Th... [5604 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-missing-children-pictou-nova-scotia-updates/",
            "image": "https://www.theglobeandmail.com/resizer/v2/FB5MIRQIPNFG5MH24Y5PTVGXME.JPG?auth=b7e13b887d3bcad932214f6d2d183881a82e2c931fc2c7d2bd1afe782cedec73&width=1200&height=800&quality=80&smart=true",
            "publishedAt": "2025-05-09T01:16:07Z",
            "source": {
                "name": "The Globe and Mail",
                "url": "https://www.theglobeandmail.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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