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Canada News API

Get the live top 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=general&apikey=API_KEY
{
    "totalArticles": 425712,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "5b3fba93b6d259a0816b879ceef9ecec",
            "title": "Nouvelle arme scientifique contre la maladie MSX de l’huître",
            "description": "Des chercheurs au Nouveau-Brunswick ont franchi une étape importante dans la lutte contre la maladie MSX qui affecte des élevages d’huîtres en Atlantique. Une équipe de l’organisation RPC a entièrement séquencé le génome du parasite Haplosporidium nelsoni, responsable de cette maladie mortelle pour les huîtres, mais inoffensive pour les humains. Dans cette ébauche de génome qui a été annoncée, on voit pour la première fois un portrait beaucoup plus détaillé de ce parasite-là, [de] ce qu’il porte à l’intérieur de lui, indique Martin Mallet, biologiste et copropriétaire de l’élevage Huîtres Mallet, à Shippagan, interviewé lundi à l’émission La matinale, d’ICI Acadie. Martin […]",
            "content": "Des chercheurs au Nouveau-Brunswick ont franchi une étape importante dans la lutte contre la maladie MSX qui affecte des élevages d’huîtres en Atlantique.\nUne équipe de l’organisation RPC a entièrement séquencé le génome du parasite Haplosporidium ne... [1728 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.ilesdelamadeleine.com/2026/03/09/nouvelle-arme-scientifique-contre-la-maladie-msx-de-lhuitre/",
            "image": "https://www.ilesdelamadeleine.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Capture-decran-le-2026-03-09-a-16.59.27.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-03-09T23:59:12Z",
            "lang": "fr",
            "source": {
                "id": "9cec9dfa5486f21e377d07456a20007b",
                "name": "Portail des Îles de la Madeleine",
                "url": "https://www.ilesdelamadeleine.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "9671b6d8cb891e808196ec1e38b8e032",
            "title": "Alexander brothers, famous real estate brokers, guilty of sex trafficking",
            "description": "Prosecutors accused the brothers of using their wealth to lure women to parties and luxury homes, then taking advantage of them.",
            "content": "Two famous brothers who worked as real estate brokers have been convicted of drugging and raping dozens of women over the course of decades.\nTal Alexander, 39, and Oren Alexander, 38, rose to prominence from their sales of luxury real-estate properti... [1823 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c6271ngl014o",
            "image": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/c3fd/live/9fa5fc50-1bd7-11f1-801a-8f2f63e21096.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-03-09T23:19:14Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "f331a5ed3965fb59761dfcecfc7e7a34",
                "name": "BBC",
                "url": "https://www.bbc.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "4414516dbc302c446836b9a89babda68",
            "title": "Sync to the beat and stutter less",
            "description": "A fun rhythm-training game played to music on a cell phone shows promise for reducing stuttering in children, according to a new UdeM study.",
            "content": "Stuttering is more than just struggling to “get the words out.” It’s a developmental disorder affecting speech fluency caused by a deficit in speech motor control synchronization.\nThe condition typically emerges between the ages of two and five, and ... [3552 chars]",
            "url": "https://nouvelles.umontreal.ca/en/article/2026/03/09/sync-to-the-beat-and-stutter-less",
            "image": "https://nouvelles.umontreal.ca/public/nouvelles/_processed_/0/1/csm_20260225_entrainement-begaiement-couv_e449fdebe3.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-03-09T22:15:47Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "777cb3f92d798a8666b43224ef6b9b5d",
                "name": "Université de Montréal",
                "url": "https://nouvelles.umontreal.ca"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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