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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": 437626,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "8107eb7d12ce791b824861462e4944b0",
            "title": "Listening to your heart: Community Health Teams supporting Nova Scotians this heart month",
            "description": "February is Heart Month – a time to focus on one of the most important muscles in our bodies. Heart health isn’t only shaped in hospitals or clinics. It’s influenced by the everyday choices we make. It’s how we eat, how we move, how we manage stress and how supported we feel along the way.",
            "content": "February is Heart Month – a time to focus on one of the most important muscles in our bodies. Heart health isn’t only shaped in hospitals or clinics. It’s influenced by the everyday choices we make. It’s how we eat, how we move, how we manage stress ... [4833 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.nshealth.ca/news-and-notices/listening-your-heart-community-health-teams-supporting-nova-scotians-heart-month",
            "image": "https://www.nshealth.ca/sites/default/files/favicon.ico",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-27T17:48:25Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "a7b3f4924d0cee6be449addca71f3917",
                "name": "Nova Scotia Health",
                "url": "https://www.nshealth.ca"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "2a40a5341947eb8b0aa5a0532d7b9183",
            "title": "AI company Anthropic amends core safety principle amid growing competition in sector",
            "description": "Anthropic, the AI company behind the Claude chatbot that was founded with a focus on safe technology, appears to be scaling back its safety commitments in order to keep the company competitive, after it amended a set of self-imposed guidelines aimed at preventing the development of AI that could potentially be dangerous.",
            "content": "Anthropic, the AI company behind the Claude chatbot that was founded with a focus on safe technology, appears to be scaling back its safety commitments in order to keep the company competitive.\nThe company said on Tuesday it had changed its responsib... [6488 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/anthropic-ai-safety-committments-9.7107355",
            "image": "https://i.cbc.ca/ais/913c5f36-1d16-4b41-990f-ef9d6c7a4ecf,1772139288368/full/max/0/default.jpg?im=Crop%2Crect%3D%280%2C0%2C5000%2C2812%29%3BResize%3D620",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-27T17:30:29Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "aa998c61041906c2082d63fdef6cc33a",
                "name": "CBC",
                "url": "https://www.cbc.ca"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "9ee8928c45f6adbf092cff5ced235181",
            "title": "Measles cases skyrocket in Manitoba, with 139 in February",
            "description": "Manitoba's measles count is soaring, with 57 confirmed new cases since last week, bringing the monthly total to 139.",
            "content": "Manitoba's measles count is soaring, with 57 confirmed new cases since last week, bringing the monthly total to 139.\nThere have been 215 confirmed cases and 22 probable cases in less than two months this year, the latest data from the province — rele... [2513 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/measles-cases-soar-february-9.7108314",
            "image": "https://i.cbc.ca/ais/bbfd1dd2-93f1-45c0-b897-892c8e6a051f,1772208145731/full/max/0/default.jpg?im=Crop%2Crect%3D%280%2C7%2C1248%2C702%29%3BResize%3D620",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-27T17:29:44Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "aa998c61041906c2082d63fdef6cc33a",
                "name": "CBC",
                "url": "https://www.cbc.ca"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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