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Letter from the President

The Canadian Conference of the Arts (CCA) is happy to meet its commitment to publish its Analyses of the Provincial and Territorial 2012-13 Budgets from the perspective of arts, culture and heritage.

National Director’s Blog

This morn­ing the CCA issued a press release titled, The Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts closes its doors after 67 years. I don’t need to tell you how dif­fi­cult it has been to write those words down and how we have tried our best not to express them. But there comes a moment when real­ity stares down the most hope­ful out­look on things. It is seven years to the day that I was given the job of National Direc­tor of the CCA. Dur­ing these years I have devel­oped the great­est of respect for this orga­ni­za­tion and the incred­i­ble con­tri­bu­tion it has made to the...

The Canadian Conference of the Arts to Close Doors after 67 Years

Press Release   The Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA), the largest national alliance of the arts, cul­ture and her­itage sec­tor across Canada, announces that it will begin wind­ing down its oper­a­tions imme­di­ately. Founded in 1945 by a group of emi­nent artists, includ­ing painters Lawren S. Har­ris, of the Group of Seven, and André Biéler, the CCA has the unique man­date in the Cana­dian cul­tural sec­tor of pro­mot­ing the inter­ests of Cana­dian artists and of the cul­tural sec­tor at large at the fed­eral level, and of pro­vid­ing a national forum...

Letter From the Chair

It is with great sadness that the Board of Governors of the CCA came to the conclusion last week that we have to shut down operations immediately. I can tell you that the decision announced today, while not a surprise given the known challenges we were facing, was most difficult to take...

Testimonials

Everybody’s talking about us!  And this is what they are saying . . .

“The Culture Office of the City of London belongs to the Canadian Conference for the Arts because it helps us to continue to be informed about arts and cultural issues which are happening at the national level which provides us with a context for issues that are affecting our municipality and local cultural community.” - Robin Armistead, Culture Manager, City of London

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CBC Special Edition

On the eve of public hearings on the CBC license renewals, we present a special issue including an interview with CEO Hubert Lacroix and an overview of issues facing our public broadcaster.

Decision Time

Issues and Chal­lenges for the CBC The CRTC hear­ings on the CBC’s license renewal will begin on Novem­ber 19th. It is impos­si­ble to deny that things have changed in the world of com­mu­ni­ca­tions in the 13years since the Corporation’s last license renewal. The broad­cast­ing ecosys­tem has been turned upside down. “We could already sense it in 2000 dur­ing the last CBC renewal. The CBC had begun to mark its pres­ence. But the last two years con­firmed the mag­ni­tude of the phe­nom­e­non,” says Pierre Bélanger. The Major Changes Since 1999 Dig­i­tal The...

A Controversial Request

For the past 40 years, CBC and Radio-Canada radio has been a haven free from the bar­rage of com­mer­cials typ­i­cal of most other radio providers. As it stands, one can lis­ten to music or the debat­ing of impor­tant ques­tions on CBC/Radio-Canada radio with­out inter­rup­tion. But fol­low­ing recent cuts intro­duced in Jim Flaherty’s 2012 fed­eral bud­get, the Cor­po­ra­tion has asked the CRTC for per­mis­sion to broad­cast national com­mer­cials over Radio 2 and Espace Musique air­waves. Accord­ing to the CBC, this will lead to $15–20 mil­lion in rev­enue...

CBC Calling">CBC Calling

Alright, I admit it. The CBC is a part of me. Like Obélix, I fell in the caul­dron of elixir when I was young. I was brought up with the CBC. I remem­ber Sun­day morn­ings in our liv­ing room, my brother and I play­ing while my par­ents read. We all lis­tened to Sun­day clas­si­cal music pro­gram­ming on CBC radio. And then there were tele­vi­sion pro­grams like Pépinot and Marie4poches… It seems so long ago! But it’s clear that the time for nos­tal­gia has passed. We have changed, and the CBC too. The world of com­mu­ni­ca­tions is a uni­verse away from where it...

CBC But…">We Love the CBC But…

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It seems the old adage is true: everyone’s a cri­tique! In Novem­ber 2012 the CBC/SRC appear in front of the CRTC for the renewal of its mul­ti­ple licenses. In the weeks lead­ing up to the hear­ing, orga­ni­za­tions and indi­vid­u­als across Canada have been sub­mit­ting their opin­ions on the pro­posed changes to Canada’s national broad­caster. It is clear from the sub­mis­sions that Cana­di­ans love the CBC, but have very strong feel­ings on the way it should be run. The CBC is an inte­gral part of Cana­dian soci­ety and, as a Crown Cor­po­ra­tion, its...