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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": 247722,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "14fbf8bf4f9494730f4a0834baafc7d6",
            "title": "U.S. woman who wrote grief book after husband’s death found guilty of his murder",
            "description": "Kouri Richins, 35, slipped five times the lethal dose of fentanyl into a cocktail that her husband Eric drank, according to prosecutors.",
            "content": "A Utah woman who published a children’s book about grief after the death of her husband was convicted Monday of aggravated murder in his death after poisoning him with fentanyl, prosecutors said.\nKouri Richins, 35, slipped five times the lethal dose ... [6416 chars]",
            "url": "https://globalnews.ca/news/11734472/kouri-richins-grief-book-author-guilty-husband-murder-fentanyl-poisoning-trial/",
            "image": "https://globalnews.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/kouri-richins-murder-trial.jpg?quality=65&strip=all&crop=0px%2C96px%2C1024px%2C541px&resize=720%2C379",
            "publishedAt": "2026-03-17T17:03:52Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "a301f1a787ffad153a758085184d4bbb",
                "name": "Global News",
                "url": "https://globalnews.ca"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "693c774399368eb4ec5a34d5c29cc401",
            "title": "Top U.S. counterterrorism official Joe Kent resigns over Trump's war on Iran",
            "description": "Joe Kent, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, announced his resignation on Tuesday, saying he \"cannot in good conscience\" back the Trump administration's war in Iran.",
            "content": "Joe Kent, the director of the U.S. National Counterterrorism Center, announced his resignation on Tuesday, saying he \"cannot in good conscience\" back the Trump administration's war in Iran.\n\"Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clea... [3304 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/joe-kent-resigns-iran-trump-war-9.7131639",
            "image": "https://i.cbc.ca/ais/b7886a53-99ed-4b9b-a267-8f0554efe279,1773756212717/full/max/0/default.jpg?im=Crop%2Crect%3D%280%2C20%2C3277%2C1843%29%3BResize%3D620",
            "publishedAt": "2026-03-17T16:19:51Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "aa998c61041906c2082d63fdef6cc33a",
                "name": "CBC",
                "url": "https://www.cbc.ca"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "4b26af4f316334aa0d1898ea5d14dfed",
            "title": "Opposé à la guerre en Iran, un haut responsable de l’antiterrorisme américain démissionne",
            "description": "Un haut responsable de la lutte antiterroriste américaine démissionne pour protester contre la guerre en Iran, qui « ne représentait aucune menace imminente ».",
            "content": "Un haut responsable américain de la lutte contre le terrorisme a annoncé mardi sa démission pour protester contre la guerre menée contre l'Iran, affirmant que la République islamique « ne représentait aucune menace imminente » pour les États-Unis.\nJo... [2623 chars]",
            "url": "https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2239809/demission-etats-unis-opposition-guerre-iran",
            "image": "https://images.radio-canada.ca/q_auto,w_1250/v1/ici-info/16x9/joseph-kent-demission-temoignage-congres.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-03-17T16:07:59Z",
            "lang": "fr",
            "source": {
                "id": "197e8e0f338b074f642026d5a319d658",
                "name": "Radio-Canada",
                "url": "https://ici.radio-canada.ca"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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