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": 287906,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "a5f059cee263558dd87642dde5d47518",
            "title": "Chinese dissident arrives in Canada after fleeing homeland by dinghy: ‘I knew I needed to keep going’",
            "description": "Dong Guangping landed in Toronto on Friday after a decade spent trying to flee China, where he faced repeated imprisonment for his human-rights activism",
            "content": "Dong Guangping, a Chinese human-rights activist who escaped China by crossing open seas on a rubber dinghy for 40 hours, has finally arrived in Canada, a destination he’d been trying to reach for more than a decade.\nHis first meal after arriving in T... [5416 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-chinese-dissident-arrives-in-canada-after-fleeing-homeland-by-dinghy-i/",
            "image": "https://www.theglobeandmail.com/resizer/v2/GOVHRUGWIFFRRMJ3VHNF7RBKT4.jpeg?auth=44d82ba789a4133a8582a6bb6187d8f6e545f95bf07a021c90cfd1a75fef5828&width=1200&height=800&quality=80&smart=true",
            "publishedAt": "2026-06-27T23:57:14Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "7bf059d2d239a92b25534b00be01732d",
                "name": "The Globe and Mail",
                "url": "https://www.theglobeandmail.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "f624ab2e5e2d5b94c464b704d61da201",
            "title": "US conducts retaliatory strikes on Iran after second shipping attack",
            "description": "The US said it had hit multiple targets \"in direct response to continued Iranian aggression against commercial shipping\".",
            "content": "The US has conducted new strikes on Iran, following a drone attack on a Panama-flagged vessel in the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday.\nUS Central Command (Centcom) said it hit multiple targets across Iran in direct response to \"continued aggression\" agai... [2992 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdxdwkgqgq0o",
            "image": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/38a0/live/7c4274f0-727b-11f1-8e1d-bbbb1017d210.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-06-27T23:06:40Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "f331a5ed3965fb59761dfcecfc7e7a34",
                "name": "BBC",
                "url": "https://www.bbc.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "99bbc2fec256c9dfd2997014821f70ca",
            "title": "Les États-Unis frappent plusieurs cibles en Iran",
            "description": "Les États-Unis ont frappé samedi des « cibles multiples » en Iran, en riposte à une nouvelle attaque de navire près du détroit d’Ormuz, a annoncé l’armée américaine.",
            "content": "(Beyrouth) Les États-Unis ont frappé samedi des « cibles multiples » en Iran, en riposte à une nouvelle attaque de navire près du détroit d’Ormuz, a annoncé l’armée américaine.\nL’aviation américaine a « mené des frappes supplémentaires contre plusieu... [1750 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.lapresse.ca/international/moyen-orient/2026-06-27/conflit-au-moyen-orient/les-etats-unis-frappent-plusieurs-cibles-en-iran.php",
            "image": "https://mobile-img.lpcdn.ca/v2/924x/r3996/d043481eef8b32579f4969598cedc625.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-06-27T22:09:08Z",
            "lang": "fr",
            "source": {
                "id": "9929f9b2d4820f4ed54220376fab7d4c",
                "name": "La Presse",
                "url": "https://www.lapresse.ca"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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