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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": 420252,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "19b3cf22341b7fd244ba214fa1136c56",
            "title": "Israël annonce une \" nouvelle phase \" dans sa guerre contre l’Iran",
            "description": "La guerre au Moyen-Orient entre vendredi dans son septième jour après qu’Israël a annoncé une « nouvelle phase » dans son conflit contre l’Iran, en parallèle de nouvelles frappes visant le Hezbollah au Liban.",
            "content": "(Beyrouth) La guerre au Moyen-Orient entre vendredi dans son septième jour après qu’Israël a annoncé une « nouvelle phase » dans son conflit contre l’Iran, en parallèle de nouvelles frappes visant le Hezbollah au Liban.\n« Après avoir mené à bien la p... [5178 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.lapresse.ca/international/moyen-orient/2026-03-05/conflit-au-moyen-orient/israel-annonce-une-nouvelle-phase-dans-sa-guerre-contre-l-iran.php",
            "image": "https://mobile-img.lpcdn.ca/v2/924x/r3996/6eb0b731f53830658443a57713495217.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-03-06T01:28:37Z",
            "lang": "fr",
            "source": {
                "id": "9929f9b2d4820f4ed54220376fab7d4c",
                "name": "La Presse",
                "url": "https://www.lapresse.ca"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "4469192e2b69c3365f35d94bccef2bfc",
            "title": "Canadian backpacker Piper James died ‘as a result of drowning’ following dingo attack at K’gari, coroner says",
            "description": "Cause of death of 19-year-old in January was drowning ‘in the setting of multiple injuries, due to, or as a consequence of a dingo attack’",
            "content": "Canadian backpacker Piper James died “as a result of drowning” following a dingo attack at K’gari, the Queensland coroners court says.\nThe court on Friday said Piper’s cause of death had been determined by a forensic pathologist and accepted by the i... [3824 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/mar/06/piper-james-kgari-cause-of-death-drowning-dingo-attack-coroner",
            "image": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/4e7633ffd8b033f78d8f0932135fca569482c204/474_0_4430_3544/master/4430.jpg?width=1200&height=630&quality=85&auto=format&fit=crop&precrop=40:21,offset-x50,offset-y0&overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&overlay-width=100p&overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctZGVmYXVsdC5wbmc&enable=upscale&s=da1b821c2af6aa078f8cf42171a46eb5",
            "publishedAt": "2026-03-06T01:03:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "558a003a7a0164e924408edec7e99f99",
                "name": "The Guardian",
                "url": "https://www.theguardian.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "0e4f112927e41fa0397610ca2a127770",
            "title": "Germany needs to 'see it to believe it' on Canadian LNG: Poilievre",
            "description": "Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre made his pitch for more Canadian natural gas exports directly to Germany.",
            "content": "Article content\nBERLIN — The German government’s posture is that they’ll “see it to believe it” when it comes to Canada’s promises to build the infrastructure necessary to boost natural gas exports to Europe, said Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre... [4663 chars]",
            "url": "https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/poilievre-pitch-natural-gas-development-plan-to-germany-foreign-minister",
            "image": "https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/img_0178_301844980-1.jpeg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-03-06T00:42:30Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "b21848176ea49868330160a249ef8b6e",
                "name": "National Post",
                "url": "https://nationalpost.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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