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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": 240906,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "dd5e5bf2c994648da0e3ee3e4af71301",
            "title": "Austria convicts climber over girlfriend’s death on mountain",
            "description": "An amateur mountaineer was found guilty of manslaughter after his girlfriend froze to death on Austria's highest peak. He had left her alone while he searched for help.",
            "content": "An amateur mountaineer in Austria has been found guilty of manslaughter over the death of his girlfriend.\nShe froze to death near the peak of the Grossglockner mountain, Austria's highest summit, after he left her alone to fetch help.\nThe court in th... [2562 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.dw.com/en/austrian-climber-guilty-of-manslaughter-after-leaving-girlfriend-on-alpine-peak/a-76051539",
            "image": "https://static.dw.com/image/76051576_6.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-20T08:19:20Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "67e0c40c5e24b3fec372ab75763abad9",
                "name": "dw.com",
                "url": "https://www.dw.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "12cc49c7b06dc6aa2b6caac870da30db",
            "title": "Petty Trump Opens Top Secret Files in Bid to Eclipse Obama",
            "description": "The 79-year-old called it an “extremely interesting and important matter.”",
            "content": "Donald Trump wants the truth on extraterritorial life, at least, out there.\nThe president on Thursday night directed government agencies to release files pertaining to the existence of aliens just hours after complaining that Barack Obama had shared ... [3848 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-desperate-alien-announcement-after-being-scooped-by-obama/",
            "image": "https://www.thedailybeast.com/resizer/v2/IDB7DXLKQ5C23JZ2L2QZHQUZM4.jpg?smart=true&auth=6961b8b673f077a8e32ac450e400cb2cd32b83010e2ec4e6e92cf24caa241b45&width=1200&height=630",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-20T05:09:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "e3fd974e36370d094fc026102a75c80f",
                "name": "The Daily Beast",
                "url": "https://www.thedailybeast.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "b3854086540298dc163f6b0da6fde548",
            "title": "Major road crash leaves 18 dead, 3 injured in northeast Egypt",
            "description": "Road accidents, often linked to speeding, claim thousands of lives each year in Egypt.",
            "content": "A collision between a truck and a passenger pick-up in Egypt’s northeastern Port Said province has left 18 people dead, mostly fishermen, and three others injured, according to reports.\nThe crash at approximately 12:30pm local time (10:30 GMT) on Thu... [1735 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/20/major-road-crash-leaves-18-dead-3-injured-in-northeast-egypt",
            "image": "https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/2022-09-27T114335Z_707399458_RC2HOW9LH333_RTRMADP_3_EGYPT-ECONOMY-IMPORTS-1771558247.jpg?resize=1920%2C1440",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-20T04:23:01Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "7530d90c9af769eda4cb548f32ed381d",
                "name": "Al Jazeera",
                "url": "https://www.aljazeera.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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