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The New Canada Media Fund: A glass half full, or half empty?

CCA Bul­letin 8/09 March 12, 2009   Why this should inter­est you The audio-visual sec­tor in Canada rep­re­sents a large source of employ­ment for the cul­tural sec­tor and the most widely con­sumed form of cul­tural expres­sion. Hill Strate­gies recently noted that “although artists work in many dif­fer­ent sec­tors of the econ­omy, the indus­try with the high­est num­ber of artists is arts, enter­tain­ment, and recre­ation (52,600 or 38% of all artists).” In 2004 The Cul­tural Human Resources...

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The 2009–2010 Main Estimates Provide an Imperfect Picture of Government Spending

CCA Bul­letin 7/09 March 2, 2009 Just the Facts The Pres­i­dent of the Trea­sury Board, the Hon. Vic Toews, tabled the Main Esti­mates of Gov­ern­ment Spend­ing for 2009–2010 on Feb­ru­ary 26. 2009. Usu­ally, this doc­u­ment presents a rel­a­tively com­plete pic­ture of where spend­ing has increased or decreased through­out the entire net­work of gov­ern­ment depart­ments and agencies. Per­haps because of the polit­i­cally tumul­tuous past few months and the unfore­seen eco­nomic cri­sis,...

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CCA Urges the CRTC to Create a Fund for New Media Productions

CCA Bul­letin 5/09 Feb­ru­ary 19 , 2009 Just the Facts Ten years after decid­ing not to reg­u­late inter­net and two years after extend­ing that deci­sion to wire­less ser­vices, the Cana­dian Radio-television and Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Commission’s (CRTC) has reopened the issue. The Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) was the first wit­ness to appear at the Hear­ing on New Media which started ear­lier this week in Gatineau (Québec). In his open­ing state­ment, CCA’s National Direc­tor...

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More Budget Details: Where is the $335 million going?

  CCA Bul­letin 4/09 Feb­ru­ary 9 , 2009 Just the facts It has been two weeks since the Min­is­ter of Finance, the Hon. James Fla­herty, unveiled the 2009 Fed­eral Bud­get.  This doc­u­ment con­tained $ 335 mil­lion in sup­port of cul­ture and the arts. The Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) has been delv­ing into the announced fund­ing ini­tia­tives to bet­ter under­stand how this invest­ment trans­lates into sup­port for the arts and cul­ture sec­tor and what por­tion of the sums...

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The 2009–2010 Federal Stimulus Budget and Culture: More Status Quo than Economic Stimulus

CCA Bul­letin 3/09 Jan­u­ary 27, 2009   Just the Facts Fol­low­ing the Speech from the Throne on Jan­u­ary 26th, mark­ing the open­ing of the sec­ond ses­sion of Canada’s 40th Par­lia­ment, the Fed­eral Stim­u­lus Bud­get was released today by Finance Min­is­ter Fla­herty. Unlike pre­vi­ous bud­get releases, this announce­ment came in the wake of unprece­dented media leaks, lead­ing to nation­wide con­jec­ture on the stim­u­lus fund­ing expected for the arts and cul­ture sector. On first...

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Speech From The Throne — Prelude to the Federal Stimulus Budget

CCA Bul­letin 2/09 Jan­u­ary 26, 2009   Just the Facts On a day where the wind-chill was –31 Cel­sius, the Gov­er­nor Gen­eral of Canada, the CRT. Hon. Michaëlle Jean, deliv­ered the Speech from the Throne that was all about economy. The usual tra­di­tional trap­pings of hon­our guards and trum­pet salutes were dis­posed of in favour of a stripped down pre­sen­ta­tion which lasted just over eight min­utes. The Speech was a pre­lude to the unveil­ing of the Fed­eral Stim­u­lus Bud­get which will...

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The Cultural Sector – Part of the Solution for Economic Stimulus

CCA Bul­letin 52/08 Decem­ber 18, 2008 Just the Facts The Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) has sent today to the min­is­ter of Finance, the Hon. James Fla­herty, as well as to all Oppo­si­tion par­ties, a sub­mis­sion where it stakes the arts and cul­ture sec­tor as a sound place to invest for the eco­nomic stim­u­lus sought by the gov­ern­ment to counter the impacts of the cur­rent cri­sis on Cana­dian citizens. Ear­lier this year, the CCA sub­mit­ted to the Stand­ing Com­mit­tee on...

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The Political Crisis Almost Eclipses the Economic Crisis

CCA Bul­letin 50/08 Decem­ber 8, 2008 Just the Facts Cana­di­ans wit­nessed high polit­i­cal drama this past week as the gov­ern­ment was chal­lenged with a pos­si­ble suc­cess­ful non-confidence vote on the Eco­nomic Update deliv­ered the pre­ced­ing week by the Min­is­ter of Finance, the Hon. James Fla­herty. The cre­ation of a coali­tion by the Lib­eral and New Demo­c­rat par­ties, sup­ported by the Bloc Québé­cois, threat­ened to defeat the gov­ern­ment on Decem­ber 8, 2008. The polit­i­cal ...

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The Economic Meltdown: Arts Organizations Feel the Heat and Finance Minister Flaherty Seeks Ideas for Economic Stimulation

  CCA Bul­letin 49/08   Novem­ber 25, 2008 Just the Facts As bad news on the econ­omy keeps rolling in, arts orga­ni­za­tions and insti­tu­tions are begin­ning to feel the pinch as endow­ments are fail­ing to gen­er­ate income. Endow­ment funds have been pro­moted by the fed­eral and some provin­cial gov­ern­ments as a pru­dent way to build finan­cial secu­rity and pro­mote longer-term plan­ning. In Saturday’s edi­tion of the Globe and Mail, jour­nal­ist James Brad­shaw fea­tured an...

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They’re Baaaaaack ! Canada’s 40th Parliament Gets To Work

CCA Bul­letin 48/08 Novem­ber 20, 2008 Just the Facts On Novem­ber 18, Canada’s 40th Par­lia­ment began its work with the re-election of Speaker of the House, Hon. Peter Mil­liken. Novem­ber 19th saw the Gov­er­nor Gen­eral lay out the plans of the gov­ern­ment in the Speech from the Throne deliv­ered in the Sen­ate chambers. There are a few ele­ments which are of spe­cific inter­est to the arts and cul­ture sector. “Cul­tural cre­ativ­ity and inno­va­tion are vital not only to a lively Cana­dian...

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