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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": 361362,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "5dfcfe45ebffa191c02914a2bfe6a7cd",
            "title": "Doctors urge people to get flu vaccine as Ottawa hospital sees a surge in cases",
            "description": "Viral season expected to peak around late December and early January",
            "content": "An Ottawa hospital has seen an eightfold increase in the number of children testing positive for influenza, as doctors and health care workers across the country brace for what is expected to be one of the worst flu seasons in years.\nOttawa’s Childre... [3583 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-doctors-urge-people-to-get-flu-vaccine-as-ottawa-hospital-sees-a-surge/",
            "image": "https://www.theglobeandmail.com/resizer/v2/2OU2OQQTLBCCPA73FD4GKFNVS4.JPG?auth=d261233b90c8c87bbbd57ccf256223c49bb790626f4a7657bfed4da37f7f075e&width=1200&height=800&quality=80&smart=true",
            "publishedAt": "2025-12-04T02:18:46Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "7bf059d2d239a92b25534b00be01732d",
                "name": "The Globe and Mail",
                "url": "https://www.theglobeandmail.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "3132788f4f90a1f5d7aab7c0644014b1",
            "title": "Le milieu culturel \" insulté \" et \" secoué \" après les accusations de PSPP",
            "description": "Les propos du chef du Parti québécois Paul St-Pierre Plamondon ont suscité mercredi des réactions de peine, d’incompréhension et de sidération.",
            "content": "Les propos du chef du Parti québécois Paul St-Pierre Plamondon pour dénoncer le manque de loyauté de certains porte-parole du milieu culturel envers le Québec ont suscité mercredi des réactions de peine, d’incompréhension et de sidération chez plusie... [2633 chars]",
            "url": "https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2211437/milieu-culturel-paul-st-pierre-plamondon",
            "image": "https://images.radio-canada.ca/q_auto,w_1250/v1/ici-info/16x9/tania-kontoyanni-presidente-uda-union-artistes.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2025-12-04T01:30:00Z",
            "lang": "fr",
            "source": {
                "id": "197e8e0f338b074f642026d5a319d658",
                "name": "Radio-Canada",
                "url": "https://ici.radio-canada.ca"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "5d1d0b72506072ec23da6867812ba3ac",
            "title": "Doctor who sold Matthew Perry ketamine sentenced to 2-1/2 years in prison",
            "description": "California doctor Salvador Plasencia was sentenced to two and a half years in prison on Wednesday after he pleaded guilty to illegally supplying Friends star Matthew Perry with ketamine. The powerful sedative caused the actor's overdose death in 2023.",
            "content": "A doctor who pleaded guilty to selling ketamine to Matthew Perry in the weeks before the Friends star's overdose death was sentenced to two and a half years in prison on Wednesday.\nJudge Sherilyn Peace Garnett handed down the sentence plus two years ... [3618 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/salvador-plasencia-matthew-perry-overdose-sentencing-9.7002015",
            "image": "https://i.cbc.ca/ais/7081c6c4-54b0-42ef-925b-89df922ee078,1764799893898/full/max/0/default.jpg?im=Crop%2Crect%3D%280%2C117%2C3690%2C2075%29%3BResize%3D620",
            "publishedAt": "2025-12-03T23:05:55Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "aa998c61041906c2082d63fdef6cc33a",
                "name": "CBC",
                "url": "https://www.cbc.ca"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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