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About the Canada News Centre

The News Centre has two primary purposes:

• A central publishing and distribution service for GC organizations to publish their news and other related products for distribution across three access channels: the News Centre Web site, News Centre RSS news feeds and the News Wireless Portal.
• A central news source for Canadians and the media to access from three access channels up-to-the-minute news and other related news resources published by GC organizations.

Content published to the News Centre is presented under different views in order to give you greater flexibility over the way you choose to receive and view GC news. Today's news items are found either on the National News page or on the News by Region page. Or you can choose to view news by a specific Audience group. You can also view current and archived news items using the Advanced Search page.

Search

You can search this site for specific news releases, media advisories, warning and advisories, speeches, reports and other news and background related information.The Advanced Search is best used to limit your search criteria.

For a search not related to the News Centre, use the Government of Canada search engine.

Stay In Touch

• RSS News Feeds: Find out how to get GC news directly to your desktop. Subscribe to one or more RSS news feeds subscriptions
• News Wireless Portal: Find out how to get GC news on your Web-enabled wireless device

Web Site Enquiries

If you have comments, questions or suggestions regarding the Canada News Centre, we would appreciate hearing from you. Please send an e-mail message to the webmaster or write to us at:

Postal Address:
Service Canada
Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0J9
Attention: Canada News Centre

Accessibility Help

• Accessibility Features Statement
• Increasing Text Size
  • Internet Explorer
  • Mozilla Firefox
  • Opera
  • Netscape
• Client-side CSS for enhancing accessibility

Accessibility Features Statement

In order to make this site more accessible, the Canada Site has employed templates which:

• are XHTML 1.0 Strict conformant, to improve compatibility with adaptive technologies, handheld devices, browsers, and search engines;
• have been successfully tested on a wide range of adaptive technologies and browser/platform combinations to ensure that Canadians can access Web pages regardless of the technology used;
• include major components, such as the common menu bar, side menu, and content area that are properly marked up with headings to simplify navigation with a screen reader;
• employ table-less layout and design to simplify screen reader navigation by reducing the structural complexity of Web pages;
• improve accessibility by allowing visitors to configure visual elements to meet their accessibility needs;
• use scaleable fonts and text-based navigational elements to improve accessibility and simplify navigation using adaptive technologies;
• provide printer-friendly functionality in the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to render pages more compatible with printers and to prevent printing unnecessary page elements;
• separate visual presentation from the document structure;
• avoid truncated and overlapped elements at very large font sizes;
• display the title value when a link gains keyboard focus; and
• employ skip navigation links at the beginning of the page for quickly moving to the content or the institutional links. These skip navigation links become visible when a mouse pointer hovers over top or when selected using a keyboard or other alternate input device.

Increasing Text Size

To increase the text size on our Web pages, you can change the settings in your Web browser. Just follow the instructions below based on the browser you are using or see your browser's help for details.

Internet Explorer

1. Select "View" in the menu bar.
2. Select "Text Size".
3. Select "Larger" or "Largest".

Mozilla Firefox

1. Select "View" in the menu bar.
2. Select "Text Size".
3. Select "Increase".
4. To increase the text size further, continue selecting "Increase".

Opera

1. Select "View" in the menu bar.
2. Select "Zoom".
3. From the menu, select the size with which you would like to view the Web site.
4. To increase the text size further, increase the percentage.

Netscape

1. Select "View" in the menu bar.
2. Select "Text Size".
3. From the menu, select the size with which you would like to view the Web site.

Client-Side CSS for Enhancing Accessibility

The design of the Web pages on this Web site is flexible enough to allow you to configure the visual presentation to meet your accessibility needs by using a client-side Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) file.

Most browsers provide the ability to specify a client-side CSS file, which would be applied to every Web page on this Web site that you visit. To take advantage of this feature, perform the following steps:

1. How to create a client-side CSS file, and
2. How to configure your browser to use the client-side CSS file