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": 495552,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "611305cefd52cf05b71ace091cf31f51",
            "title": "ESA and the Chinese Academy of Sciences are jointly launching Smile in 2026 — the same heliophysics collaboration NASA has been statutorily barred from since the 2011 Wolf Amendment, and the gap revea",
            "description": "ESA and the Chinese Academy of Sciences are preparing Smile for a 2026 launch — a joint heliophysics mission of a kind NASA has been statutorily forbidden to undertake since 2011, exposing that \"Western space policy\" toward China is in fact two incompatible policies held by allied institutions.",
            "content": "In a clean room outside Madrid, a spacecraft called Smile is being readied for launch from French Guiana in 2026. Its task is unromantic but fundamental: from a highly elliptical orbit, it will image in X-ray and ultraviolet the place where solar win... [6893 chars]",
            "url": "https://spacedaily.com/sd-a-esa-and-the-chinese-academy-of-sciences-are-jointly-launching-smile-in-2026-the-same-heliophysics-collaboration-nasa-has-been-statutorily-barred-from-since-the-2011-wolf-amendment-and-the-gap-rev/",
            "image": "https://spacedaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/esa-and-the-chinese-academy-of-sciences-.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-05-16T09:52:09Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "e78ce7d66fa4cc7a845a221fd1505b06",
                "name": "Space Daily",
                "url": "https://spacedaily.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "53776c6cab146c6bf2ff924433a690a2",
            "title": "New Ebola outbreak in eastern DR Congo raises cross",
            "description": "A new Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has raised concerns over possible regional spread after health authorities reported 246 suspected cases and 80 suspected community deaths in the conflict-hit Ituri Province bordering Uganda and South Sudan, while Uganda has also confirmed an imported case involving a Congolese national.",
            "content": "KINSHASA – A new Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has raised concerns over possible regional spread after health authorities reported 246 suspected cases and 80 suspected community deaths in the conflict-hit Ituri Prov... [3712 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.chinadailyasia.com/hk/article/633565",
            "image": "https://www.chinadailyhk.com/upload/main/image/2026/05/16/e1ed47e0b00e299d9e98ab407071e4f0.png",
            "publishedAt": "2026-05-16T08:51:53Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "f2001b11e203449d7b3efb435c5cb35e",
                "name": "chinadailyasia.com",
                "url": "https://www.chinadailyasia.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "23e54a87f19aa9a8a90a33a9fb406f2d",
            "title": "Hantavirus has no cure. Here's where researchers are at with treatments and vaccines",
            "description": "Researchers across the world are working on a hantavirus vaccine, though they say development is in the early stages and rollout could be years away.",
            "content": "A hantavirus outbreak aboard a luxury cruise ship this month has put the spotlight on a deadly disease that has no cure.\nHantavirus cases are rare and typically not contagious between humans. When people do catch it, it is usually after touching obje... [3741 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/hantavirus-treatment-cure-vaccine-9.7201524",
            "image": "https://i.cbc.ca/ais/88414916-6366-4cbc-b711-aa5d79bc65a0,1778873824073/full/max/0/default.jpg?im=Crop%2Crect%3D%280%2C182%2C3500%2C1968%29%3BResize%3D620",
            "publishedAt": "2026-05-16T08:00:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "aa998c61041906c2082d63fdef6cc33a",
                "name": "CBC",
                "url": "https://www.cbc.ca"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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