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Canada World News API

Get the live top world headlines from Canada with our JSON API.

Get API key for the Canada World 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=world&apikey=API_KEY
{
    "totalArticles": 230432,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "6cdde1e439ac3dbed0613e6208e8b384",
            "title": "Pentagon moves to turn independent military outlet into a ‘mouthpiece,’ advocates warn",
            "description": "The Trump administration is exerting political pressure on Stars & Stripes, the independent military newspaper that informs US servicemembers worldwide.",
            "content": "The Trump administration is exerting political pressure on Stars & Stripes, the independent military newspaper that informs US servicemembers worldwide.\nPentagon spokesman Sean Parnell announced Thursday that the Department of Defense will “modernize... [2476 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/15/media/stars-and-stripes-pentagon-news-outlet",
            "image": "https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/ap25271811134814.jpg?c=16x9&q=w_800,c_fill",
            "publishedAt": "2026-01-16T03:30:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "b7f8938851261c8403f75f40eb1d8645",
                "name": "CNN",
                "url": "https://www.cnn.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "ecf0533e5e0045f5bd52883025675e23",
            "title": "Woman dragged from car by ICE identified as U.S. citizen Aliya Rahman",
            "description": "A U.S. citizen on her way to a medical appointment in Minneapolis was dragged out of her car and detained by immigration officers, according to a statement released by the woman on Thursday, after a video of her arrest drew millions of views on social media.",
            "content": "A U.S. citizen on her way to a medical appointment in Minneapolis was dragged out of her car and detained by immigration officers, according to a statement released by the woman on Thursday, after a video of her arrest drew millions of views on socia... [4822 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/aliya-rahman-citizen-ice-arrest-9.7047853",
            "image": "https://i.cbc.ca/ais/236fe986-9786-4d58-b066-bd33b41f409d,1768529746824/full/max/0/default.jpg?im=Crop%2Crect%3D%280%2C262%2C5029%2C2828%29%3BResize%3D620",
            "publishedAt": "2026-01-16T03:03:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "aa998c61041906c2082d63fdef6cc33a",
                "name": "CBC",
                "url": "https://www.cbc.ca"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "be751bd86301b5d46f004a139b0e043e",
            "title": "Ashley St. Clair, the mother of one of Elon Musk's children, sues xAI over Grok sexual images",
            "description": "Ashley St. Clair, the mother of one of Elon Musk’s children, sued Musk’s xAI artificial intelligence company Thursday.",
            "content": "Ashley St. Clair, the mother of one of Elon Musk’s children, sued Musk’s xAI artificial intelligence company Thursday, alleging that the AI giant was negligent and inflicted emotional distress by enabling users of its AI tool, called Grok, to create ... [3081 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/ashley-st-clair-sues-xai-grok-sexual-images-rcna254302",
            "image": "https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_nbcnews-fp-1200-630,f_auto,q_auto:best/rockcms/2026-01/260105-ashley-st-clair-elon-musk-cs-cc653f.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-01-16T02:57:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "3bab6463853c054dc51d2427c1a5b69e",
                "name": "NBC News",
                "url": "https://www.nbcnews.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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