Canada News API

Get the live top headlines from Canada with our JSON 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=general&apikey=API_KEY
{
    "totalArticles": 424770,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "530e1d2104dbc0deb4bd9820f14cd493",
            "title": "Un legs qui fait couler de l’encre à la bibliothèque",
            "description": "L’UQAM possède maintenant le plus grand atelier typographique francophone en milieu universitaire d’Amérique du Nord.",
            "content": "Grâce à un don du Musée de l’imprimerie du Québec, l’UQAM possède maintenant le plus grand atelier typographique francophone en milieu universitaire d’Amérique du Nord. Anciens pressoirs, dactylos, clichés, caractères typographiques (en bois ou en pl... [345 chars]",
            "url": "https://montrealcampus.ca/2026/03/07/un-legs-qui-fait-couler-de-lencre-a-la-bibliotheque-atelier-typographie-imprimante-uqam/",
            "image": "https://montrealcampus.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/campus-site-icon-2-100x100.png",
            "publishedAt": "2026-03-07T13:21:00Z",
            "lang": "fr",
            "source": {
                "id": "749f7cce1288af5cf315d56c00224afe",
                "name": "Montréal Campus",
                "url": "https://montrealcampus.ca"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "eb9dd050f39b45e16f9b5ec4b31d7c66",
            "title": "Canadians are drinking less, driving the biggest drop in alcohol sales in 20 years: StatsCan",
            "description": "Canadians are buying less alcohol, leading to the largest annual drop in beer, wine, spirits and cider sales in the 20 years Statistics Canada has been tracking the data, according to the agency's new report.",
            "content": "The numbers are as sobering as a zero-proof margarita.\nCanadians are buying less alcohol, leading to the largest annual drop in beer, wine and spirits sales in the 20 years Statistics Canada has tracked the data, according to the agency's latest repo... [5550 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/alcohol-sales-drop-canada-9.7117257",
            "image": "https://i.cbc.ca/ais/6b402de2-d4ba-4040-9f07-dca351abbf46,1772808696069/full/max/0/default.jpg?im=Crop%2Crect%3D%280%2C275%2C4000%2C2250%29%3BResize%3D620",
            "publishedAt": "2026-03-07T13:01:44Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "aa998c61041906c2082d63fdef6cc33a",
                "name": "CBC",
                "url": "https://www.cbc.ca"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "26f21ccfa2873807bd416fe23b1c5831",
            "title": "Powerful Yukon earthquake sheds light on changing seismic risk",
            "description": "Scientists are piecing together what they learned from the quake and the 4000-plus aftershocks that continue to rattle the landscape",
            "content": "On the morning of Saturday, Dec. 6, Jan Dettmer was working on the construction of his new house in Whitehorse, Yukon, when the concrete slab beneath his feet began to shake.\nDr. Dettmer, who is the geoscience research manager for the Yukon Geologica... [4189 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/science/article-yukon-earthquake-seismic-risk-geology/",
            "image": "https://www.theglobeandmail.com/resizer/v2/KK4JPZQO5VHZ5EMMXW42TFREWY.JPEG?auth=6a621a63a70fa50e911af080b1df449af300a7f972a10a22d34e7a4bd678cbe2&width=1200&height=800&quality=80&smart=true",
            "publishedAt": "2026-03-07T12:00:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "7bf059d2d239a92b25534b00be01732d",
                "name": "The Globe and Mail",
                "url": "https://www.theglobeandmail.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}
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