Thinking Culture: Thinking Festivals

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The Standing Committee on Finance Report and the Arts

CCA Bul­letin 34/11 Just the facts The Stand­ing Com­mit­tee on Finance pre­sented this week a report on its pan-Canadian con­sul­ta­tions. The Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts was the first of five cul­tural orga­ni­za­tions[1] to appear before the Com­mit­tee. This report com­prises 53 pro­pos­als tar­get­ing four areas: fed­eral finances, busi­nesses, com­mu­ni­ties and individuals. In the intro­duc­tion, the Com­mit­tee describes arts and cul­ture as one of the fac­tors con­tribut­ing to the strength of a com­mu­nity. Addi­tion­ally, three pages...

Our National Director Takes Off!

Alain Pineau took off on a cross-Canada tour on January 9 to meet with supporters of Canadian arts and culture, including CCA members of course. Take a gander at this page for more details on tour stops!

Legislative Committee on C-11

The Leg­isla­tive Com­mit­tee on Bill C-11 com­prises 13 mem­bers and was struck at the end of  Octo­ber 2011. Chair Glenn Thibeault NDP Sud­bury, ON Room 970 — La Prom­e­nade Build­ing House of Com­mons Ottawa, Ontario  K1A 0A6 Tele­phone: 613–996-8962 Fax: 613–995-2569 E-Mail: glenn.thibeault@parl.gc.ca Con­stituency address 40 Elm Street, Unit 103A Sud­bury, Ontario  P3C 1S8 Mem­bers Char­lie Angus NDP Timmins—James Bay, ON Room 900 – La Prom­e­nade Build­ing House of Com­mons Ottawa, Ontario  K1A 0A6Telephone: 613–992-2919 Fax:...

Federal budget: Economic and Fiscal Update and the Second Set of Supplementary Estimates

CCA Bul­letin 32/11 Novem­ber 17, 2011 Just the facts Last week, the gov­ern­ment released its Update of Eco­nomic and Fis­cal Pro­jec­tions. One main mes­sage emerged from the doc­u­ment:  owing to con­tin­ued weak­ness in the global econ­omy, down­ward revi­sions for eco­nomic growth in Canada and con­sid­er­able eco­nomic uncer­tainty going for­ward, the gov­ern­ment will not return to fis­cal bal­ance until 2015–2016, a year later than pro­jected in Bud­get 2011. This does not alter the seri­ous­ness and resolve of the gov­ern­ment to adhere to the...

FROM THE DESK OF Alain Pineau: Time for an update!">FROM THE DESK OF Alain Pineau: Time for an update!

CCA Bul­letin 31/11 Novem­ber 15, 2011 How time flies! This fall is par­tic­u­larly busy for all of us: I’m not not sure exactly why, but it seems that every­one is run­ning on an accel­er­at­ing tread­mill! So it is time again to keep you posted on a num­ber of cur­rent files. The Com­pre­hen­sive Eco­nomic and Trade Agreement Let’s start with the nego­ti­a­tions between Canada and the Euro­pean Com­mu­nity. I par­tic­i­pated in the brief­ing ses­sion orga­nized by the Depart­ment of For­eign Affairs and Inter­na­tional Trade on Octo­ber 28. The main...

Annual Analysis of the Federal Budget (Budget 2011) — ‘The axe will fall but where exactly?

Bill C-11, the Legislative Committee Has Been Struck

CCA Bul­letin 30/11 Octo­ber 31, 2011 It is Hal­loween: what could be more ter­ri­fy­ing than to speak of copy­right! So here is the bul­letin promised in our last missive. Just the facts Sev­eral names were cir­cu­lat­ing for a few days and as per its oblig­a­tion to name com­mit­tee mem­bers within five days of the start of the sec­ond read­ing debates, the Stand­ing Com­mit­tee on Pro­ce­dure and House Affairs has estab­lished the Leg­isla­tive Com­mit­tee on Bill C-11. The com­mit­tee is made up of 12 mem­bers and can­not begin its work before the House...

Past Thinking Culture Forums

2011 Where is the Cana­dian Pub­lish­ing Indus­try Going? Speaker: Dou­glas  Gibson Date: Novem­ber 17, 2011 Time: 5:00 — 7:00 pm Loca­tion: Uni­ver­sity of Ottawa, Des­marais Build­ing, 12th floor   Cul­ture and Sus­tain­able Communities Speak­ers: Nancy Duxbury, Michel-Rémi Lafond Date: Octo­ber 11, 2011 Time: 5:00 — 7:00 pm Loca­tion: Uni­ver­sity of Ottawa, Des­marais Build­ing, 12th floor, Room 120   Provin­cial Cul­tural Pol­icy: Then and Now Speak­ers: Mon­ica Gat­tinger, Diane Saint-Pierre, M. Sharon Jeannotte Date: June 20, 2011 Time: 5:00...

January 2012: Clothilde Cardinal

Clothilde co-directs the Danse Danse series, working alongside Pierre Des Marais since 2000. She has almost 30 years of experience in the performing arts field both as a funder and a promoter. Throughout her career, she has participated in performing arts festivals and fairs in Canada and around the world. Clothilde is currently based in Montréal.