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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": 228880,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "bcef6732179afc56982859447dc576b8",
            "title": "Prime Minister Carney speaks with María Corina Machado",
            "description": "The Prime Minister and Ms. Machado condemned Nicolás Maduro’s brutally oppressive, criminal, and illegitimate regime, which repressed the Venezuelan people and persecuted dissenters.",
            "content": "Today, the Prime Minister, Mark Carney, spoke with Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado.\nThe Prime Minister and Ms. Machado condemned Nicolás Maduro’s brutally oppressive, criminal, and illegitimate regime, which repressed the Venezuelan p... [741 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/readouts/2026/01/04/prime-minister-carney-speaks-maria-corina-machado",
            "image": "https://www.pm.gc.ca/sites/pm/files/media/override_sharing/2025-11/PM_Readout_EN.png",
            "publishedAt": "2026-01-05T00:58:11Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "60d1e74f8dfcb0164db33795b8872f05",
                "name": "pm.gc.ca",
                "url": "https://www.pm.gc.ca"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "cfccffbe0428bc3d6d2ed69c2a1c1826",
            "title": "The French university where spies go for training",
            "description": "Sciences Po Saint-Germain near Paris trains current French secret agents and potential new recruits.",
            "content": "2 hours ago\nChris BockmanParis\nUniversity professor Xavier Crettiez admits that he doesn't know the real names of many of the students on his course.\nThis is a highly unusual state of affairs in the world of academia, but Prof Crettiez's work is far ... [5752 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c98nqeqnylro",
            "image": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/453f/live/9c3f1fd0-da8a-11f0-b800-5d5b12ef9423.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-01-05T00:02:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "f331a5ed3965fb59761dfcecfc7e7a34",
                "name": "BBC",
                "url": "https://www.bbc.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "7c3b82f77f2f0288cf3e774debd69783",
            "title": "Mixed reactions in B.C. after U.S. says it captured Venezuela’s president",
            "description": "British Columbians with ties to Venezuela are reacting with a mix of cautious optimism and anger after U.S. President Donald Trump announced the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro following what he described as a “large-scale strike” early Saturday.",
            "content": "British Columbians with ties to Venezuela are reacting with a mix of cautious optimism and anger after U.S. President Donald Trump announced the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro following what he described as a “large-scale strike” earl... [4156 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/b-c-venezuelans-react-to-u-s-capture-of-nicolas-maduro-9.7032891",
            "image": "https://i.cbc.ca/ais/1f2a769c-66ac-4fb5-85e3-8e1374050289,1767496351564/full/max/0/default.jpg?im=Crop%2Crect%3D%280%2C0%2C1920%2C1080%29%3BResize%3D620",
            "publishedAt": "2026-01-04T23:49:11Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "aa998c61041906c2082d63fdef6cc33a",
                "name": "CBC",
                "url": "https://www.cbc.ca"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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