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Bulletin

Update on various files

  CCA Bul­letin 36/07 Novem­ber 20, 2007 The Gov­ern­ment of Canada Launches a National Com­pe­ti­tion to Deter­mine the Loca­tion of the Future Por­trait Gallery of Canada A New Inter­na­tional Orga­ni­za­tion is Formed: the Inter­na­tional Fed­er­a­tion of Coali­tions for Cul­tural Diver­sity (IFCCD) The CCA Writes to the Hon­ourable Jim Pren­tice, Min­is­ter of Industry Good News for Festivals Fed­eral Sub­si­dies and Con­tri­bu­tion Agree­ments: Where Do Things Stand? The ...

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Financial Update, Supplementary Estimates and Canadian Ownership Review

CCA Bul­letin 35/07 Novem­ber 1, 2007     Just the Facts Octo­ber 30, 2007 was a hec­tic day in Ottawa, with the gov­ern­ment releas­ing the Sup­ple­men­tary Esti­mates, the Min­is­ter of Finance deliv­er­ing his Eco­nomic Update, and the Fed­eral Panel charged to review for­eign own­er­ship restric­tions in key areas of fed­eral pol­icy (includ­ing cul­ture and broad­cast­ing) set­ting out the terms of its man­date and con­sul­ta­tion process. The Eco­nomic Update includes sev­eral mea­sures...

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Speech from the Throne: Little new: Copyright and the Infrastructure program on the Agenda

  CCA Bul­letin 34/07 Octo­ber 17, 2007 On Octo­ber 16, 2007, the Gov­er­nor Gen­eral, the Right Hon­ourable Michaëlle Jean, deliv­ered the Speech from the Throne, mark­ing the open­ing of the sec­ond ses­sion of the 39th Par­lia­ment of Canada. The Speech, which is an out­line of the Government’s plans for the Par­lia­men­tary ses­sion, included five gen­eral areas:   Strength­en­ing Canada’s Sov­er­eignty and Place in the World Strength­en­ing the Fed­er­a­tion and our Demo­c­ra­tic...

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Supreme Court Decision A Relief to Charities

CCA Bul­letin 33/07 Octo­ber 10, 2007     Just the Facts On Fri­day Octo­ber 5, 2007, the Supreme Court of Canada released its deci­sion on the case of the Ama­teur Youth Soc­cer Asso­ci­a­tion. The case revolved around the quest by this Ontario based orga­ni­za­tion to be rec­og­nized as a charity. The Rev­enue Canada Agency had rejected the appli­ca­tion for char­i­ta­ble sta­tus on the basis that sports were not a char­ity. The Asso­ci­a­tion appealed to the Fed­eral Court of Appeals cit­ing the...

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Concentration of media ownership: who controls what in Canada?

CCA Bul­letin 31/07 August 29, 2007     Just the facts This week, the Cana­dian Radio-television and Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Com­mis­sion begins the first in a series of pub­lic hear­ings that will touch on issues con­cern­ing con­cen­tra­tion of media own­er­ship, cross-media own­er­ship and the abil­ity of for­eign firms to buy into the Cana­dian broad­cast­ing sys­tem.  As tech­no­log­i­cal change con­tin­ues to sweep across the broad­cast­ing and telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions sec­tors around the...

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2008 Pre-Budget Consultation: the CCA Urges the Government to Invest in the Creative Economy!

  CCA BULLETIN 30/07 August 16, 2007 Just the facts The Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) has filed yes­ter­day its sub­mis­sion to the Stand­ing Com­mit­tee on Finance in the con­text of the 2008 pre-budget con­sul­ta­tion: A Cre­ative Cana­dian Econ­omy: tax­a­tion and beyond. The CCA has been a par­tic­i­pant in pre-budget con­sul­ta­tions for over twenty years. Dur­ing this time, a broad series of rec­om­men­da­tions have been put for­ward to the Min­is­ter of Finance and the Stand­ing...

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The CCA welcomes the Honourable Josée Verner as the new Minister of Canadian Heritage

CCA Bul­letin 29/07 Ottawa, August 15, 2007   Prime Min­is­ter Stephen Harper has appointed the Hon­ourable Josée Verner as the new Min­is­ter of Cana­dian Her­itage, switch­ing places with the Hon­ourable Bev Oda who has gone to replace her at Inter­na­tional Coop­er­a­tion.  The Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts wel­comes Ms Verner’s appoint­ment and looks for­ward to work­ing with her and the offi­cials of her Depart­ment for the advance­ment of arts and cul­ture in Canada. First elected Mem­ber of...

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Canada will Host Important UNESCO Intergovernmental Meeting in December 2007

CCA Bul­letin 28/07 August 1, 2007 Just the facts As reported pre­vi­ously (CCA Bul­letins Jan­u­ary 24, 2007 and April 10, 2007), inter­est among states in the UNESCO Con­ven­tion on the Pro­tec­tion and Pro­mo­tion of the Diver­sity of Cul­tural Expres­sions remains high.  Sixty-three states, as well as the Euro­pean Com­mu­nity, have now joined.  The first Con­fer­ence of Par­ties to the Con­ven­tion was held in Paris from 18 to 20 June 2007, the sec­ond will be held in June 2009. While the...

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CCA Participates in Canada Council Strategic Planning Process

CCA Bul­letin 27/07 July 26, 2007 Just the Facts The Canada Coun­cil for the Arts has launched a major con­sul­ta­tive exer­cise to inform the devel­op­ment of its next three-year strate­gic plan. The Coun­cil has met with artists, cre­ators and arts orga­ni­za­tions in a series of meet­ings and has also spent one day in inten­sive dis­cus­sions with arts ser­vice orga­ni­za­tions. Alain Pineau, National Direc­tor, and Guil­laume Sirois, Cul­tural Pol­icy Advi­sor, par­tic­i­pated in the...

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Canadian Heritage Minister, the honourable Beverly J. Oda has announced a recurring $30 million dollar increase to the Canada Council for the Arts

CCA Bul­letin 26/07 Ottawa, Tues­day July 24, 2007 Cana­dian Her­itage Min­is­ter, the hon­ourable Bev Oda announced in Toronto on Fri­day, July 20, 2007 that the Canada Coun­cil for the Arts will receive an addi­tional $30 mil­lion annu­ally in fund­ing. This sum will raise the total annual bud­get of the Canada Coun­cil for the Arts to a lit­tle over $180 mil­lion. More­over, the Min­is­ter indi­cated that this announce­ment was meant by the gov­ern­ment to high­light the 50th anniver­sary of the...

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