News from Canada
222,785 news articles from publishers in Canada, searchable now through a free API that needs no key.
The busiest publisher in this slice is www.newswire.ca with 26,009 articles, 11.7% of the total, followed by financialpost.com, investingnews.com. By language it splits into English (187,242), French (31,349), Chinese (479) and 13 more. Daily volume averages about 2,838 articles over the last 8 days, peaking at 4,387 on 2026-10-15.
Fetch it
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=CA&date=today&sort=date&size=20"No API key, no signup, no quota. The response carries the headline, description,
publisher, publication time and the original URL for every article, and the full body text
if you ask for it with full_text=true.
Count it
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/stats?country=CA&top=20"Returns exactly the breakdown shown on this page: which publishers, which languages, and how the volume splits across the last 90 days. About 200 tokens, which makes it the cheapest way for an agent to decide whether this slice is worth reading.
Country is inferred, not declared. Before counting Canada articles, read
country_source — and add
strict_country=true to exclude values derived from an en-US
template default.
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=CA&strict_country=true&date=today&size=20"Latest from this slice
The newest articles matching this filter at the time this page was generated. Headlines link to the publisher — we index and search, we do not host.
| Published | Headline | Publisher |
|---|---|---|
2026-10-22T23:17 | Toronto Washroom Incident: Understanding Your Privacy Rights | www.ullaw.ca |
2026-10-22T20:22 | NDP rejects claim from Scott Moe that it used AI to create health-care plan | globalnews.ca |
2026-10-22T20:20 | Le geste controversé de Jakub Dobes en point de presse fait jaser après sa gaffe majeure contre | www.rumeursdetransaction.com |
2026-10-22T20:19 | Toronto Teens Arrested in Online Robbery Scheme: What You Need to Know | www.ullaw.ca |
2026-10-22T20:19 | 'HE WAS STILL BREATHING': Arizona mother speaks out after toddler found alive in hospital morgu | www.westernstandard.news |
2026-10-22T20:18 | AbCellera to Present at Upcoming Investor Conferences in November 2026 | financialpost.com |
2026-10-22T20:17 | Creativity takes wing at Quesnel’s mural | quesnelobserver.com |
2026-10-22T20:17 | lululemon Announces Appointment of Tara Poseley to Board of Directors | financialpost.com |
Who publishes it
The 25 most active publishers inside this slice right now. Not a curated list — this is simply who appeared most often.
| Publisher | Articles | Share | API |
|---|---|---|---|
www.newswire.ca | 26,009 | 11.7% | query |
financialpost.com | 9,150 | 4.1% | query |
investingnews.com | 8,699 | 3.9% | query |
thehockeynews.com | 6,106 | 2.7% | query |
globalnews.ca | 4,772 | 2.1% | query |
www.985fm.ca | 4,525 | 2.0% | query |
lanouvelletribune.info | 3,567 | 1.6% | query |
toronto.citynews.ca | 3,176 | 1.4% | query |
www.narcity.com | 2,800 | 1.3% | query |
www.westernstandard.news | 2,557 | 1.1% | query |
todayinbc.com | 2,408 | 1.1% | query |
www.tolerance.ca | 1,690 | 0.8% | query |
kelownacapnews.com | 1,603 | 0.7% | query |
vernonmorningstar.com | 1,596 | 0.7% | query |
westknews.com | 1,588 | 0.7% | query |
lakecountrycalendar.com | 1,577 | 0.7% | query |
www.fool.ca | 1,510 | 0.7% | query |
nationalpost.com | 1,501 | 0.7% | query |
peacearchnews.com | 1,495 | 0.7% | query |
surreynowleader.com | 1,403 | 0.6% | query |
cloverdalereporter.com | 1,388 | 0.6% | query |
dose.ca | 1,385 | 0.6% | query |
saobserver.net | 1,384 | 0.6% | query |
northdeltareporter.com | 1,362 | 0.6% | query |
goldstreamgazette.com | 1,355 | 0.6% | query |
Languages published in Canada
What this country actually publishes in, which is often more than one language and rarely what a single language filter would suggest.
| Code | Name | Articles | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| en | English | 187,242 | 84.0% |
| fr | French | 31,349 | 14.1% |
| zh | Chinese | 479 | 0.2% |
| de | German | 354 | 0.2% |
| es | Spanish | 349 | 0.2% |
| ko | Korean | 310 | 0.1% |
| ru | Russian | 69 | 0.0% |
| sk | Slovak | 68 | 0.0% |
| cs | Czech | 41 | 0.0% |
| nl | Dutch | 39 | 0.0% |
| pl | Polish | 30 | 0.0% |
| it | Italian | 29 | 0.0% |
| tr | Turkish | 17 | 0.0% |
| ca | Catalan | 11 | 0.0% |
| no | Norwegian | 1 | 0.0% |
Domain zones used by Canada publishers
Publishers here do not all use the national zone. This is the split that country inference has to work against.
| Code | Name | Articles | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| com | global commercial | 137,824 | 61.9% |
| ca | Canada | 71,644 | 32.2% |
| net | global network | 4,593 | 2.1% |
| news | news publications | 3,735 | 1.7% |
| info | information | 3,602 | 1.6% |
| space | space | 706 | 0.3% |
| co | Colombia | 386 | 0.2% |
| org | organisations | 253 | 0.1% |
| me | personal | 17 | 0.0% |
| today | today | 13 | 0.0% |
| cat | cat | 11 | 0.0% |
| tv | media | 1 | 0.0% |
Volume by day
How much this slice produces daily. Useful for sizing a job before you run it, and for spotting whether a spike is real or an artefact of one publisher.
| Day | Articles | |
|---|---|---|
2026-10-22 | 2,728 | |
2026-10-21 | 3,387 | |
2026-10-20 | 2,691 | |
2026-10-19 | 2,124 | |
2026-10-18 | 2,202 | |
2026-10-17 | 1,896 | |
2026-10-16 | 3,287 | |
2026-10-15 | 4,387 | |
2026-10-14 | 3,705 | |
2026-10-13 | 3,449 | |
2026-10-12 | 1,529 | |
2026-10-11 | 1,624 | |
2026-10-10 | 1,978 | |
2026-10-09 | 3,198 |
Combine with other filters
# Canada, published today, full article bodies
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=CA&date=today&full_text=true&size=10"
# Canada, search phrase, ranked by relevance
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=CA&q=economy&sort=relevance&size=20"
# Canada, newly ingested in the last 15 minutes
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=CA&sort=crawled&from=now-15m&size=50"