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Canada World News API

Get the live top world 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=world&apikey=API_KEY
{
    "totalArticles": 231430,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "26eef686cad11b531b011ff90d1f4ee4",
            "title": "Thousands of flights cancelled across U.S. as major winter storm hits",
            "description": "The National Weather Service forecast warns of widespread heavy snow and a band of catastrophic ice stretching from east Texas to North Carolina.",
            "content": "More than 8,000 flights across the U.S. set to take off over the weekend have been cancelled as a major storm expected to wreak havoc across much of the country bears down, threatening to knock out power for days and snarl major roadways.\nRoughly 140... [4108 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/us-winter-storm-flights-cancelled-9.7059474",
            "image": "https://i.cbc.ca/ais/46451b3c-8c2b-4573-82d1-050c3055be41,1769240194704/full/max/0/default.jpg?im=Crop%2Crect%3D%280%2C562%2C5405%2C3040%29%3BResize%3D620",
            "publishedAt": "2026-01-24T13:06:15Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "aa998c61041906c2082d63fdef6cc33a",
                "name": "CBC",
                "url": "https://www.cbc.ca"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "e34b6667b93e2d27fbaafff9735a75d4",
            "title": "Elvis Tipan Echeverria: 2-year-old taken into ICE custody with father in Minnesota and flown to Texas, lawyer says",
            "description": "A 2-year-old girl was taken into ICE custody with her father on Thursday in Minneapolis and flown to Texas before she was returned to her mother Friday afternoon, a family lawyer said.",
            "content": "A 2-year-old girl was taken into ICE custody with her father on Thursday in Minneapolis and flown to Texas before she was returned to her mother Friday afternoon, a family lawyer said.\nThe child’s transfer to Texas took place despite a court order re... [5851 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/24/us/elvis-tipan-echeverria-toddler-ice-arrest-minnesota",
            "image": "https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/99185143-1769122608750961-r.jpg?c=16x9&q=w_800,c_fill",
            "publishedAt": "2026-01-24T12:24:30Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "b7f8938851261c8403f75f40eb1d8645",
                "name": "CNN",
                "url": "https://www.cnn.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "fa3cb51a2702234889965ad754f8a246",
            "title": "Donald Trump cède à la Chine le leadership économique mondial",
            "description": "Dans un discours verbeux et décousu, tour à tour grandiloquent et geignard, où il ne s’est pas privé de s’autocongratuler, le président Donald Trump a donné l’extrême-onction à l’ordre démocratique libéral forgé par les États-Unis et leurs alliés après la Seconde Guerre mondiale.",
            "content": "(Davos) Dans un discours verbeux et décousu, tour à tour grandiloquent et geignard, où il ne s’est pas privé de s’autocongratuler, le président Donald Trump a donné l’extrême-onction à l’ordre démocratique libéral forgé par les États-Unis et leurs al... [6132 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.lapresse.ca/affaires/economie/2026-01-24/conference-de-davos/donald-trump-cede-a-la-chine-le-leadership-economique-mondial.php",
            "image": "https://mobile-img.lpcdn.ca/v2/924x/r3996/fcbc0390c3c735049c043736bfaac0a9.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-01-24T12:00:00Z",
            "lang": "fr",
            "source": {
                "id": "9929f9b2d4820f4ed54220376fab7d4c",
                "name": "La Presse",
                "url": "https://www.lapresse.ca"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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