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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": 352170,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "07c6084df9ce69d969085b881747553c",
            "title": "New HIV prevention guidelines say doctors should not 'gatekeep' PrEP",
            "description": "Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed… New HIV prevention guidelines say doctors should not be ‘gatekeeping’ PrEP A coalition of doctors across Canada is releasing a new guideline for prescribing medications that can prevent HIV infection, with a strong focus on increasing the promotion […]",
            "content": "Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed…\nNew HIV prevention guidelines say doctors should not be ‘gatekeeping’ PrEP\nA coalition of doctors across Canada is releasing a new guideline for prescribing medic... [3695 chars]",
            "url": "https://halifax.citynews.ca/2025/12/01/in-the-news-new-hiv-prevention-guidelines-say-doctors-should-not-gatekeep-prep/",
            "image": "https://halifax.citynews.ca/wp-content/blogs.dir/sites/5/2025/12/6e4baa8ff53ece968f6219d83bfde1d2250a219ce82932523cfa953b9f11fdbd.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2025-12-01T10:20:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "b5df96a63eeb53e366132e9394b2a9e1",
                "name": "CityNews Halifax",
                "url": "https://halifax.citynews.ca"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "c8b91e955930448527d2f93e731b6295",
            "title": "Une piste pour éradiquer le VIH",
            "description": "En cette Journée mondiale du sida, des chercheurs montréalais dévoilent qu’une molécule pourrait éradiquer le VIH. Cette possibilité permettrait de guérir les patients, qui doivent actuellement prendre des médicaments pour contrôler le virus pour le reste de leur vie.",
            "content": "En cette Journée mondiale du sida, des chercheurs montréalais dévoilent qu’une molécule pourrait éradiquer le VIH. Cette possibilité permettrait de guérir les patients, qui doivent actuellement prendre des médicaments pour contrôler le virus pour le ... [2771 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/sciences/2025-12-01/journee-mondiale-du-sida/une-piste-pour-eradiquer-le-vih.php",
            "image": "https://mobile-img.lpcdn.ca/v2/924x/r3996/4dc9b3756fea3b71855ae376751e21a3.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2025-12-01T10:00:00Z",
            "lang": "fr",
            "source": {
                "id": "9929f9b2d4820f4ed54220376fab7d4c",
                "name": "La Presse",
                "url": "https://www.lapresse.ca"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "cf6637d9d0e18835a979dfbb7b2c0f3c",
            "title": "WestJet and Air Transat passengers fight back after airlines falsely claim they can’t film disputes",
            "description": "Jason Huang says a WestJet employee grabbed his phone and threatened to deny him boarding when he began recording his conversation during airport check-in. Legal expert say passengers are within their rights to record these interactions, and video and audio recordings may help in battles for compensation.",
            "content": "Jason Huang says he and three older relatives were simply trying to get back to Toronto last August, when a routine check-in at the WestJet counter at Edmonton International Airport escalated into a confrontation.\n“The manager suddenly grabbed my pho... [6289 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.cbc.ca/news/gopublic/westjet-airtransat-recording-disputes-9.6995311",
            "image": "https://i.cbc.ca/ais/14c2bd91-b236-4f6a-985b-1f7c5c34eb71,1764278691223/full/max/0/default.jpg?im=Crop%2Crect%3D%280%2C440%2C4032%2C2268%29%3BResize%3D620",
            "publishedAt": "2025-12-01T09:01:07Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "aa998c61041906c2082d63fdef6cc33a",
                "name": "CBC",
                "url": "https://www.cbc.ca"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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