Canada News API

Get the live top headlines from Canada with our JSON API.

Get API key for the Canada News 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": 490350,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "755a5621e195b088acbe61b3d802e410",
            "title": "Les États-Unis inculpent l’ancien président cubain Raúl Castro",
            "description": "Les États-Unis mettent en accusation l’ancien dirigeant de 94 ans en lien avec la destruction de deux avions civils américains en vol, en 1996.",
            "content": "Le département de la Justice des États-Unis a inculpé l'ancien président cubain Raúl Castro en lien avec la destruction de deux avions civils américains en vol, en 1996.\nTrente ans après les faits, l'inculpation criminelle marque une intensification ... [2965 chars]",
            "url": "https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2255366/etats-unis-cuba-inculpation-raul-castro",
            "image": "https://images.radio-canada.ca/q_auto,w_1250/v1/ici-info/16x9/social-labour-horizontal.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-05-20T18:01:00Z",
            "lang": "fr",
            "source": {
                "id": "197e8e0f338b074f642026d5a319d658",
                "name": "Radio-Canada",
                "url": "https://ici.radio-canada.ca"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "1cb9ade793679bbf0cc0972ccf93a367",
            "title": "Fire Prevention and Police investigating suspicious garage fire",
            "description": "'Upon arrival, crews had an exterior fire that had extended up to the roof line and was beginning to enter the structure'",
            "content": "The North Bay Fire Department and police are investigating a garage fire that took place on High Street in North Bay around midnight.\n\"All 3 fire stations responded to a reported garage fire at 12:12 a.m.,\" stated Jason Whiteley, North Bay's Fire Chi... [720 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.baytoday.ca/local-news/fire-prevention-and-police-investigating-suspicious-garage-fire-12305438",
            "image": "https://www.vmcdn.ca/f/files/baytoday/images/fire/2026-05-20-high-street-garage-fire.jpeg;w=1200;h=800;mode=crop",
            "publishedAt": "2026-05-20T17:35:19Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "2a814cc9bfc201d2dd11dfe32844b358",
                "name": "BayToday.ca",
                "url": "https://www.baytoday.ca"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "f84c4a6094a053f4483b0229a2ed6cf1",
            "title": "Mexican cartel, Hells Angels members among 33 arrested in $37M drug bust: Winnipeg police",
            "description": "Thirty-three people have been arrested and more than $37.2 million worth of cocaine, meth and fentanyl was seized in what Winnipeg police are calling the largest drug bust in Manitoba history.",
            "content": "Thirty-three people have been arrested and more than $37.2 million worth of cocaine, meth and fentanyl was seized in what Winnipeg police are calling the largest drug bust in Manitoba history.\nAmong those arrested are people associated with the upper... [3156 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/largest-drug-bust-winnipeg-police-9.7205851",
            "image": "https://i.cbc.ca/ais/7b2604ed-a53a-4642-beb3-a3ab723aca3c,1779297566262/full/max/0/default.jpg?im=Crop%2Crect%3D%280%2C81%2C4853%2C2729%29%3BResize%3D620",
            "publishedAt": "2026-05-20T17:34:42Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "aa998c61041906c2082d63fdef6cc33a",
                "name": "CBC",
                "url": "https://www.cbc.ca"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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