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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...
read moreHeritage 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...
read moreRevenue 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...
read moreCultural 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...
read more“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 ...
read moreCanadian 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)....
read moreCopyright 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...
read moreThe 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...
read moreSummer 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...
read more“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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