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": 258480,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "4f41226243b7691b42b4e4dd372c68d4",
            "title": "Trump administration moves to ease federal restrictions on marijuana",
            "description": "Marijuana had the same classification as heroin, LSD and others before being reclassified for lower potential for abuse",
            "content": "The Trump administration has moved to reclassify marijuana, more than four months after Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the attorney general to move it from schedule I to schedule III under the Controlled Substances Act.\nThe schedule... [3313 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/23/trump-administration-reclassify-marijuana-schedule-iii",
            "image": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/b2936bc8d3b9454141f9bccb98c49d92fa3651be/102_270_2457_1967/master/2457.jpg?width=1200&height=630&quality=85&auto=format&fit=crop&precrop=40:21,offset-x50,offset-y0&overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&overlay-width=100p&overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctZGVmYXVsdC5wbmc&enable=upscale&s=06eeb3770f12b27c3b684174c0b76cc0",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-23T13:49:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "558a003a7a0164e924408edec7e99f99",
                "name": "The Guardian",
                "url": "https://www.theguardian.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "99c32549d8b213c56f9dcc8b566b37de",
            "title": "Lebanese journalist killed in Israeli attack had spoken of death threat",
            "description": "Media rights groups condemn killing of Amal Khalil, who said in 2024 she had been threatened by ‘an Israeli enemy’",
            "content": "The Lebanese journalist killed in an Israeli attack on Wednesday had previously spoken of receiving a threat via an unidentified Israeli phone number that she would be killed if she did not leave southern Lebanon, where she had long been based and wo... [4910 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/23/lebanon-journalist-amal-khalil-israel-death-threat",
            "image": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/036dcca50361a3a58fd2576304a59b2f2eb58d7d/673_0_3496_2797/master/3496.jpg?width=1200&height=630&quality=85&auto=format&fit=crop&precrop=40:21,offset-x50,offset-y0&overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&overlay-width=100p&overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctZGVmYXVsdC5wbmc&enable=upscale&s=d4c1c0326bb6e890da0b3e4596cc6c96",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-23T13:24:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "558a003a7a0164e924408edec7e99f99",
                "name": "The Guardian",
                "url": "https://www.theguardian.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "53da4f9062709329058746a2e0e2d1de",
            "title": "US Senate passes $70bn funding plan for ICE, Border Patrol",
            "description": "Senate votes 50-48 early on Thursday morning to advance the plan to reopen the Department of Homeland Security.",
            "content": "The United States Senate has taken the first steps towards reopening the Department of Homeland Security, after approving a budget framework that would fund immigration enforcement agencies, despite opposition from the Democrats.\nThe department has b... [3136 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/23/us-senate-passes-70bn-funding-plan-for-ice-border-patrol",
            "image": "https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/reuters_69ea0d06-1776946438.jpg?resize=1920%2C1440",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-23T13:08:02Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "7530d90c9af769eda4cb548f32ed381d",
                "name": "Al Jazeera",
                "url": "https://www.aljazeera.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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