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IMPORTANT REMINDER REGISTER NOW FOR CHALMERS TO AVOID DISAPPOINTMENT!">IMPORTANT REMINDER REGISTER NOW FOR CHALMERS TO AVOID DISAPPOINTMENT!

CCA Bul­letin 7/06 Jan­u­ary 31, 2006 As the coun­try set­tles down, post-election, to the real­i­ties of a Con­ser­v­a­tive minor­ity government,the next CCA con­fer­ence pro­vides a par­tic­u­larly timely oppor­tu­nity for the cul­tural com­mu­nity tocome together for a sector-wide con­sul­ta­tion around cul­tural pol­icy: what exists, what is still­needed, and how best to get it. As you already know, CCA’s National Pol­icy Con­fer­ence, Map­ping Canada’s Cul­tural Policy:Where do we go from here?, is sched­uled for March 3 and 4 in Ottawa.  This...

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The Canadian Conference of the Arts urges the new Government of Canada to maintain the planned Canada Council budget increase, as well as to strengthen Canada’s arts and culture on the national and international fronts

Ottawa - The Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) con­grat­u­lates all new and return­ing Mem­bers of Par­lia­ment for their elec­tion to the 39th Par­lia­ment of Canada, and wel­comes the new gov­ern­ment cho­sen by Cana­di­ans.  As an impor­tant first order of busi­ness for the cul­tural sec­tor, the CCA asks the new gov­ern­ment to hon­our the planned increase to the bud­get of the Canada Coun­cil for the Arts announced last Novem­ber 23.   “Increas­ing the Canada Council’s bud­get by $150 mil­lion over three years was not a mere pre-election...

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CCA urges the new Government of Canada to strengthen our arts and culture on national and international fronts">The CCA urges the new Government of Canada to strengthen our arts and culture on national and international fronts

CCA Bul­letin 6/06 Jan­u­ary 24, 2006 The Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) con­grat­u­lates all new andreturn­ing Mem­bers of Par­lia­ment for their elec­tion to the 39th Par­lia­ment of Canada, and wel­comes­the new gov­ern­ment cho­sen by Cana­di­ans.  As an impor­tant first order of busi­ness for the cul­tur­al­sec­tor, the CCA asks the new gov­ern­ment to hon­our the planned increase to the bud­get of the Canada Coun­cil for the Arts announced last Novem­ber 23. “Increas­ing the Canada Council’s bud­get by $150 mil­lion over three...

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FEDERAL ELECTION IS DRAWING TO A CLOSEAND THE CCA’S WORK HAS JUST BEGUN">2006 FEDERAL ELECTION IS DRAWING TO A CLOSEAND THE CCA’S WORK HAS JUST BEGUN

CCA Bul­letin 5/06 Jan­u­ary 20, 2006 The last few days of Canada’s first win­ter elec­tion in many years has seen­po­lit­i­cal cam­paign­ers go into over­drive as they push towards the vote next Mon­day Jan­u­ary 23rd.The media are scram­bling to cover the bar­rage of last-minute repar­tee and rhetoric, while the coun­try is abuzz with the ques­tion: “What will Par­lia­ment look like on Tues­day Jan­u­ary 24th?” When one con­sid­ers that the words “arts and cul­ture” never quite made it past the lips of the party lead­ers, from the sector’s point...

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FROM THE DESK of Alain Pineau: MARCH 2006 CONFERENCE REMINDER">FROM THE DESK of Alain Pineau: MARCH 2006 CONFERENCE REMINDER

CCA Bul­letin 4 /06 Jan­u­ary 19, 2006 – If you have been fol­low­ing the fed­eral elec­tion and pub­lic opin­ion polls as intently as the Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA), you will doubtlessly feel the winds of change pick­ing up. At the moment it appears that on Jan­u­ary 23 2006 the polit­i­cal land­scape in this coun­try will be altered when Cana­di­ans go to the polls to elect a new fed­eral gov­ern­ment.  Every Cana­dian 18 and older has a right to have their say at the polling booth, but what about Jan­u­ary 24 2006 and beyond? For those of us...

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ONE WEEK TO GO IN THE 2006 FEDERAL ELECTION CAMPAIGNADVOCACY UPDATE FROM THE CCA">ONE WEEK TO GO IN THE 2006 FEDERAL ELECTION CAMPAIGNADVOCACY UPDATE FROM THE CCA

CCA Bulletin3/06 Jan­u­ary 17, 2006 Only seven days remain before Cana­di­ans go to the polls in the first fed­eral win­ter elec­tion in a num­ber of years.  The Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) con­tin­ues to work steadily to pro­vide our mem­bers, stake­hold­ers and sup­port­ers with as much use­ful infor­ma­tion as pos­si­ble with respect to the fed­eral par­ties’ posi­tions on arts and cul­ture issues.  Since our last bul­letin 02/06 sent Jan­u­ary 9 2006, the fol­low­ing par­ties have released their offi­cial platforms: The Lib­eral Party...

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Reality check – Where business left off in the House of Commons

CCA Bul­letin 2/06 Jan­u­ary 9, 2006 The dis­so­lu­tion of Par­lia­ment for a win­ter elec­tion means that work in the House of Com­mons grinds to a halt.  Now that the writ has dropped, there is much to report on where busi­ness left off.  Sev­eral pieces of leg­is­la­tion that would have impacted Canada’s artists, arts orga­ni­za­tions, and cul­tural indus­tries fell from the Order Paper; oth­ers passed and received Royal Assent; and the activ­i­ties of var­i­ous Stand­ing Com­mit­tees cer­tainly lost momentum. ACTIVITIES OF THE STANDING COMMITTEE ON...

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FROM THE DESK of Alain Pineau: CCA’S NEW YEAR BEGINS WITH FURTHER FEDERAL ELECTION ADVOCACY">FROM THE DESK of Alain Pineau: CCA’S NEW YEAR BEGINS WITH FURTHER FEDERAL ELECTION ADVOCACY

CCA Bul­letin 1/06 Jan­u­ary 3, 2006 After a short break for the hol­i­day sea­son, the Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) greets the begin­ning of 2006 in full “elec­tions advo­cacy mode”.  We will con­tinue our efforts to put arts and cul­ture issues on the agenda dur­ing the cur­rent cam­paign and I invite all mem­bers, stake­hold­ers, and the pub­lic to visit the grow­ing sec­tion of our web­site www.ccarts.ca/en/2005ElectionNews1.htm ded­i­cated to CCA’s 2006 fed­eral elec­tion advocacy. This bul­letin will high­light the grow­ing list of...

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The Canadian Conference of the Arts Welcomes a New National Director

OTTAWA – The Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts, the most impor­tant interest-based coali­tion aimed at pro­mot­ing arts and cul­ture in Canada, is pleased to announce the appoint­ment of Alain Pineau as National Direc­tor. Mr. Pineau comes to the CCA with an impres­sive track record in broad­cast­ing, cul­tural indus­tries and vol­un­teerism in the arts. At the Cana­dian Broad­cast­ing Cor­po­ra­tion, he was amongst other things Man­ag­ing Edi­tor of National News for French radio, Vice Pres­i­dent, Plan­ning and Reg­u­la­tory Affairs and Asso­ciate Vice...

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CCA Update from Parliament Hill">CCA Update from Parliament Hill

Bul­letin 40/05 Ottawa, Octo­ber 19, 2005 – The Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) pre­sented “Set­ting the Stage”, its 2005 pre-budget sub­mis­sion, to the Stand­ing Com­mit­tee on Finance on Wednes­day Octo­ber 5. The CCA appeared as wit­nesses along­side ACTRA, one of its mem­ber orga­ni­za­tions, as well as the Cana­dian Arts Sum­mit, the Cana­dian Library Asso­ci­a­tion, the Cana­dian Asso­ci­a­tion of Archivists and the Cana­dian Asso­ci­a­tion of Research Libraries. The full text of the 2005 pre-budget sub­mis­sion is available on our...

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