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Receive Government of Ontario Headlines to Your Desktop

Now you can receive Government of Ontario news and information, delivered right to your desktop!  The newsroom includes headlines, summaries of the news article and links to the full text documents.

When a news item arrives, you will receive a headline and brief summary. The headline will be a hyperlink to the full news release located on a government website. If you close your news reader, you will not be advised of updates until the next time you open it.

Select a Government of Ontario News Feed

Government of Ontario Headline News Major Ontario Government Announcements

	Agriculture and Food		Attorney General
	Cabinet Office		Children and Youth Services
	Citizenship and Immigration		Community and Social Services
	Community Safety and Correctional Services		Culture
	Democratic Renewal Secretariat		Economic Development and Trade
	Education		Energy
	Environment		Finance
	Francophone Affairs		Government House Leader's Office
	Government Services		Health and Long-Term Care
	Intergovernmental Affairs		Labour
	Lieutenant governor of Ontario		Municipal Affairs and Housing
	Native Affairs Secretariat		Natural Resources
	Northern Development and Mines		Postsecondary Review Secretariat
	Premier of Ontario		Provincial World Youth Day Secretariat
	Public Infrastructure Renewal		Training, Colleges and Universities
	Tourism and Recreation		Transportation
	All Government of Ontario news

Rich Site Summary (RSS) or as some refer to it, Real Simple Syndication, is an XML-based format for content distribution in real time.  Ontario Headline News feeds will include the date, title, summary and a link to the full news article. If after reading a summary you want to view the full text, simply link to the full text document found on the Newsroom website.

Why use RSS?

There are a number of benefits to using RSS, including:

• You select what news you want. RSS allows you to select the type of news and information you receive from websites.
  
• You determine when you get your news. Once you download your news reader, you can customize it to go and fetch the news every five minutes, or every hour - depending on how you want it.
  
• Cut down on SPAM. Because RSS requires you to download a news reader, you aren't subscribing to e-mail lists, which can increase your risk of getting unwanted SPAM e-mail.

How to view the news feed

You will need to download an RSS reader and install it on your computer. There are numerous news reader applications available for free download or for purchase on the Internet. You will find these Web resources useful as they list a number of news readers available for download:

• http://blogspace.com/rss/readers

Once you have an RSS reader installed, Copy the Ontario Headline News feeds URL http://www.ontario.ca/rssnews, launch your news aggregator or news reader application and paste the news feed URL into an "add new feed" window. Detailed instructions on how to add news feeds are included in the news reader application.