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UNESCO Recommendation Concerning the Status of the Artist">Status of the Artist in Canada: An Update on the 30th Anniversary of the UNESCO Recommendation Concerning the Status of the Artist

Garry Neil Sep­tem­ber 2010 Sta­tus of the Artist describes a cat­e­gory of leg­is­la­tion and other pub­lic poli­cies directed at improv­ing the eco­nomic and social sta­tus of pro­fes­sional artists. The con­cept has two components. • The impor­tant role that artists play in every human soci­ety should be acknowledged. • Gov­ern­ment leg­is­la­tion and pro­grams should encour­age cre­ative expres­sion and ensure equi­table treat­ment for artists by respond­ing to the atyp­i­cal man­ner in which they work. Sta­tus of the Artist was first used in a...

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The Canadian Conference of the Arts Launches New Cultural Forum Series

Ottawa, ON (August 25, 2010) –The Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) is pleased to announce the launch of Think­ing Cul­ture, a new forum series focused on arts, cul­ture and her­itage issues. Pre­sented in part­ner­ship with the Uni­ver­sity of Ottawa’s Cen­tre for Con­tin­u­ing Edu­ca­tion, Cen­tre on Gov­er­nance and School of Polit­i­cal Stud­ies, the forums will explore the com­plex­i­ties of cul­ture in Canada and abroad and how it con­tin­ues to affect society. This series will pro­vide aca­d­e­mics, civil ser­vants, decision-makers,...

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Canadian Conference of the Arts Announces Details for National Policy Conference

Ottawa, ON (June 29, 2010) – The Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) has announced details for its upcom­ing National Pol­icy Con­fer­ence, Artists: Pow­er­ing the Cre­ative Econ­omy?, tak­ing place Novem­ber 1–3, 2010 at the National Arts Cen­tre in Ottawa. The con­fer­ence will fea­ture pan­els, pre­sen­ta­tions and white­board ses­sions explor­ing poli­cies and issues affect­ing the arts, cul­ture and her­itage sec­tor within the cre­ative econ­omy. As Canada and other coun­tries move towards an increas­ingly flex­i­ble, digitally-based, mobile...

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CRTC to put communities back in community television">The Canadian Conference of the Arts urges the CRTC to put communities back in community television

Ottawa, ON (May 4, 2010) — Today, Alain Pineau, National Direc­tor of the Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA), urged the CRTC to put com­mu­ni­ties back in com­mu­nity tele­vi­sion. He also deplored the lack of data made avail­able for a full eval­u­a­tion of how cable oper­a­tors use the $ 130 mil­lion they col­lect for com­mu­nity television. The cur­rent hear­ing explores how best to achieve the social and cul­tural objec­tives of com­mu­nity broad­cast­ing as set in the Broad­cast­ing Act. Over the years, cable oper­a­tors have...

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CCA TO CRTC: PROTECT CONSUMERS BY REGULATING CABLE AND SATELLITE RATES">CCA TO CRTC: PROTECT CONSUMERS BY REGULATING CABLE AND SATELLITE RATES

The Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) weighed in yes­ter­day on the pub­lic debate on whether cable and satel­lite oper­a­tors should be called upon to pay over-the-air (OTA) tele­vi­sion broad­cast­ers for the dis­tri­b­u­tion of local signals. The CCA sup­ports the intro­duc­tion of a value for sig­nal pay­ment, pro­vided that the CRTC also imposes Cana­dian pro­gram­ming expen­di­ture require­ments on OTA broad­cast­ers equiv­a­lent to 6% of their rev­enue.  In order to pro­tect the inter­ests of Cana­dian con­sumers, the CCA urges the CRTC...

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Work Flows and Flexicurity: Canadian Cultural Labour in the Era of the Creative Economy

Mir­jam Gollmitzer and Cather­ine Murray May 2009 The cul­tural sec­tor is expe­ri­enc­ing mas­sive changes due to glob­al­iza­tion, tech­no­log­i­cal inno­va­tion, the with­drawal of pub­lic fund­ing and dereg­u­la­tion. At the same time, there is a height­ened inter­est of local, provin­cial, national and inter­na­tional policy-makers – from cre­ative city ini­tia­tives to the United Nations – in the eco­nomic as well as social rel­e­vance of the sec­tor.  The authors of this report wel­come this increased atten­tion to cre­ative work but think...

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CCA applauds CRTC’s decision to support Canada’s cultural sector">CCA applauds CRTC’s decision to support Canada’s cultural sector

Ottawa, ON (Octo­ber 30, 2008) — The CRTC’s deci­sion to sup­port local Cana­dian pro­gram­ming clearly meets the require­ments of Canada’s broad­cast­ing leg­is­la­tion and Cana­di­ans’ desire, for more and better-funded Cana­dian pro­gram­ming, says Canada’s old­est and largest arts advo­cacy and cul­tural pol­icy devel­op­ment orga­ni­za­tion, the Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA). “By strength­en­ing cable and satel­lite com­pa­nies’ finan­cial com­mit­ments to Cana­dian con­tent and enabling broad­cast­ers in all but...

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CCA and Freedom of Expression – The Endless Battle">The CCA and Freedom of Expression – The Endless Battle

Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts Octo­ber 2008 Free­dom of expres­sion is one of the hall­marks of a truly demo­c­ra­tic soci­ety. In Canada, as in other nations around the world, this free­dom is enshrined in the Con­sti­tu­tion Act as an essen­tial ele­ment of the  Char­ter of Rights and Free­doms. This anno­tated time­line will explore the evo­lu­tion of Free­dom of Expres­sion in  Canada – through judi­cial processes, law, and the insti­tu­tion­al­iza­tion of the Char­ter of Rights and Freedoms. Down­load the full...

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Making a Single Case for the Arts: An International Perspective

Alexan­dra Slaby Octo­ber 2008   In Canada, the cul­tural sec­tor is diver­si­fied and rather frag­mented and, for a vari­ety of rea­sons, it has been impos­si­ble so far to artic­u­late a coher­ent cul­tural pol­icy at the national level. There was a time when the Cana­dian Con­fer­ence for the Arts was the sin­gle, over­ar­ch­ing orga­ni­za­tion rep­re­sent­ing the inter­ests of all artis­tic dis­ci­plines in all regions. Nowa­days, pro­fes­sional, discipline-specific orga­ni­za­tions have devel­oped to rep­re­sent their own inter­ests....

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The Effects of Administrative Reforms on the Activities of Advocacy Groups

Pierre­-André Hudon Sep­tem­ber 2008 In recent years, the  role of orga­ni­za­tions in  the cul­tural sec­tor has under­gone rad­i­cal change.  Hav­ing started out as rel­a­tively autonomous inter­est rep­re­sen­ta­tion groups act­ing in the polit­i­cal realm, they now find them­selves  to be part­ners of gov­ern­ment at var­i­ous lev­els  in  the plan­ning and imple­men­ta­tion of pub­lic  pol­icy.  The adap­ta­tion of orga­ni­za­tional capa­bil­i­ties  to  this new par­a­digm,  in  which  gov­ern­ment  fund­ing  is ...

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