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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": 451188,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "1a35f060339ba7ffd1bf5f6835cd2ce9",
            "title": "2 charged after 37-year-old man fatally stabbed in Carlington",
            "description": "Two people have been charged with second-degree murder after a 37-year-old man was stabbed to death in the city's Carlington neighbourhood early Friday.",
            "content": "Two people have been charged with second-degree murder after a 37-year-old man was stabbed to death in the city's Carlington neighbourhood early Friday.\nOttawa police responded to a 30-unit building on Shillington Avenue near Hollington Street around... [346 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/shillington-avenue-ottawa-homicide-police-9.7077005",
            "image": "https://i.cbc.ca/ais/ad5f2c13-3254-4e51-ab19-ce9b7bfbcd94,1770393302167/full/max/0/default.jpg?im=Crop%2Crect%3D%281%2C0%2C4238%2C2383%29%3BResize%3D620",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-06T20:11:55Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "aa998c61041906c2082d63fdef6cc33a",
                "name": "CBC",
                "url": "https://www.cbc.ca"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "d95cb93e8dbff167e7ffe35381e88195",
            "title": "'They could be like me' - Kingston man's hepatitis C journey a warning to others",
            "description": "A Kingston man who just discovered he was infected with hepatitis C in his teens is warning others to check their medical records.",
            "content": "Article content\nArt Veryard is turning the pages of a brown photo album, seated in his east-end Kingston home.\nAdvertisement 2\nStory continues below\nThis advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.\nTHIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR... [13875 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.thewhig.com/news/they-could-be-like-me-kingston-mans-hepatitis-c-journey-a-warning-to-others",
            "image": "https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nexus/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/0207-ki-hep-c-01.ki_.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-06T20:11:10Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "643b2546b330db5d3311b78f5feef35f",
                "name": "The Kingston Whig Standard",
                "url": "https://www.thewhig.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "9e2838cad1af989cc26de840b45da279",
            "title": "Man wanted in violent kidnapping in northern Manitoba arrested, woman found safe",
            "description": "A man who prompted a dangerous person alert after police say he kidnapped a woman in northern Manitoba has been found, the chief of Pimicikamak Cree Nation says.",
            "content": "A man who prompted a dangerous person alert after police say he kidnapped a woman in northern Manitoba has been found.\nIn a Friday morning post on Facebook, Pimicikamak Cree Nation Chief David Monias said RCMP had advised him that Joshua Paupanekis, ... [1676 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/pimicikamak-cree-nation-abduction-arrest-9.7077693",
            "image": "https://i.cbc.ca/ais/2bb2f62b-02f2-4763-a6a3-ade1b4f06568,1770312458759/full/max/0/default.jpg?im=Crop%2Crect%3D%281%2C0%2C637%2C358%29%3BResize%3D620",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-06T19:35:11Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "aa998c61041906c2082d63fdef6cc33a",
                "name": "CBC",
                "url": "https://www.cbc.ca"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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