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Federal Election 2008 – What to ask candidates when they solicit your vote? (Part One)

  CCA Bul­letin 36/08 Ottawa, Mon­day, Sep­tem­ber 15, 2008 In order to assist all those who are pre­oc­cu­pied with the place arts and cul­ture occupy in the cur­rent elec­toral cam­paign, the Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) has iden­ti­fied seven broad areas of prime impor­tance for artists, cre­ators, cul­tural insti­tu­tions and indus­tries. The CCA has devel­oped a set of ques­tions for each issue: these ques­tions can be asked to all can­di­dates when they come knock­ing at the door...

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Heritage Spending Cuts Part Two: An Ongoing Saga?

CCA Bul­letin 29/08 Ottawa, Mon­day, August 26, 2008   Just the Facts Over the course of the past sev­eral weeks, the Depart­ment of Cana­dian Her­itage has been qui­etly announc­ing the reduc­tion or elim­i­na­tion of fund­ing pro­grams and other ser­vices of impor­tance to the arts and cul­ture sec­tor. To date, over $ 42 mil­lion of pro­gram and ser­vice cuts have been made by the Depart­ment and redi­rected to other government’s pri­or­i­ties, like the 2010 Olympic Torch Relay. To these cuts, one must...

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Revenue Canada’s Rules for Fundraising by Registered Charities: the CCA Raises a Red Flag

CCA Bul­letin 30/08 Ottawa, Mon­day, August 26, 2008     Just the Facts As reported in CCA Bul­letin 28/08, the Canada Rev­enue Agency is seek­ing com­ments on the new draft pol­icy for fundrais­ing activ­i­ties by reg­is­tered char­i­ties and set a dead­line of August 31 for inter­ested par­ties to react. The Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) has inter­vened today endors­ing  the posi­tions taken by Imag­ine Canada on this issue, but also rais­ing con­cerns about the inclu­sion of the phrase...

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Cultural Spending Cuts Part One: Trade Routes and PromArt Cuts in Context

  CCA Bul­letin 27/08 August 25, 2008   While many of us were enjoy­ing the sum­mer, the fed­eral gov­ern­ment has announced a series of cuts of around $40 mil­lion to cul­tural pro­grams and the elim­i­na­tion of oth­ers. Today, the CCA is pub­lish­ing a com­pre­hen­sive list of the pro­grams that are affected by those cuts and we will be pro­vid­ing fur­ther infor­ma­tion on these mea­sures in the next few days. Today, the focus will be on the elim­i­na­tion of the Pro­mArt pro­gram at the...

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“Contrary to Public Policy”: from Bill C-10 to Revenue Canada’s Rules for Fundraising by Registered Charities

CCA Bul­letin 28/08 Ottawa, Mon­day, August 25, 2008   Just the Facts After promis­ing it for sev­eral months, Canada Rev­enue Agency dis­cretely posted on its website at the end of June draft new rules for reg­is­tered char­i­ties and set a dead­line of August 31 for inter­ested par­ties to react.  The con­sul­ta­tion focuses on new pol­icy on fundrais­ing activ­i­ties by all reg­is­tered charities. The doc­u­ment pro­vides a frame­work explain­ing how to dis­tin­guish between fundrais­ing and other ...

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Canadian Television Fund: the CCA opposes the CRTC’s main recommendations

  CCA Bul­letin 26/08 July 31, 2008     Just the facts The Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) has writ­ten to the Min­is­ter of Cana­dian Her­itage, the Hon. Josée Verner, to oppose strongly to the Min­is­ter of Cana­dian Her­itage, the Hon. Josée Verner, to oppose strongly the main rec­om­men­da­tions of the report that the Cana­dian Radio-television and Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Com­mis­sion (CRTC) pre­sented to her in June con­cern­ing the future of the Cana­dian Tele­vi­sion Fund (CTF)....

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Copyright Reform: from balancing competing interest to establishing a market-place approach to rights?

  CCA Bul­letin 25/08 July 22, 2008 Just the Facts The least one can say is that the long-awaited tabling of Bill C-61 in June by the Min­is­ter of Indus­try, the Hon. Jim Pren­tice and the Min­is­ter of Cana­dian Her­itage, the Hon. Josée Verner has been greeted with mixed reviews.  There are those who sup­port the pro­posed revi­sions and oth­ers who sug­gest that many of the mea­sures in the bill are unen­force­able. Recent crit­i­cisms even denounce Bill C-61 as detri­men­tal to the envi­ron­ment...

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The CCA Publishes its Annual Analysis of the Federal Budget

CCA Bul­letin 24/08 July 17, 2008   Main find­ings The CCA pub­lishes today its 2008 Bud­get Analy­sis in which it exam­ines fed­eral fund­ing from 2007/08 to 2008/09 to the Depart­ment of Cana­dian Her­itage (DCH), cul­tural agen­cies and crown corporations. After almost three years, it is still dif­fi­cult to estab­lish what posi­tion the gov­ern­ment may take towards cul­ture as sig­nif­i­cant fund­ing reduc­tions might be forth­com­ing given the known gov­ern­ment pri­or­i­ties, the down­turn...

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Summer Means… 2009-10 Federal Budget Consultations!

CCA Bul­letin 23/08 July 10, 2008 Just the Facts The Stand­ing Com­mit­tee on Finance has announced it is receiv­ing sub­mis­sions for the 2009-10 fed­eral bud­get con­sul­ta­tions. This is an oppor­tu­nity for the pub­lic to put for­ward rec­om­men­da­tions and other ideas about what the 2009-10 fed­eral bud­get should contain. The CCA will be releas­ing in a few days its com­pre­hen­sive Analy­sis of the 2008-09 Fed­eral Bud­get, which should help orga­ni­za­tions and indi­vid­u­als in...

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“Compete to Win”– Competition Policy Review Panel Tables Final Report

CCA Bul­letin 22/08 Ottawa, Thurs­day, July 3, 2008 Just the facts On June 26, 2008, the Com­pe­ti­tion Pol­icy Review Panel tabled its final report enti­tled “Com­pete to Win”. In July 2007, then Min­is­ter of Indus­try Maxime Bernier had given the Panel the mandate “…to make rec­om­men­da­tions to the gov­ern­ment on ways to estab­lish the domes­tic con­di­tions that both encour­age Cana­dian firms to be active and aggres­sive investors at home and abroad, and max­i­mize Canada’s...

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