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CCA Prepares its 2008-09 Federal Pre-Budget Submission

CCA BULLETIN 24/07 Ottawa, Fri­day, July 12, 2007 Just the Facts The CCA has begun con­sul­ta­tions on the 2008-09 fed­eral pre-budget sub­mis­sion. The Stand­ing Com­mit­tee on Finance has set a dead­line of August 15, 2007 for briefs. This is about one month ear­lier than pre­vi­ous years. They have also asked inter­ven­ers to limit their briefs to five pages. The Stand­ing Com­mit­tee will hold hear­ings on the pre-budget exer­cise in the Fall. The CCA has already made known its inten­tion to appear in...

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The Minister of Finance Replies to the CCA Advantage Canada Brief

CCA Bul­letin 23/07 June 21, 2007 Just the Facts Late last year, the Min­is­ter of Finance released a long-range eco­nomic plan for Canada under the title of Advan­tage Canada. At the same time he called upon inter­ested indi­vid­u­als or orga­ni­za­tions to respond to the doc­u­ment. The CCA accepted this invi­ta­tion and sub­mit­ted a brief which put for­ward many of the same rec­om­men­da­tions included in our 2007-08 pre-budget sub­mis­sion to the Stand­ing Com­mit­tee on Finance. On May 24, 2007...

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The Canadian Conference of the Arts (CCA) Releases Its Annual In-Depth Analysis of the Federal Budget re: Arts and Culture Issues

CCA Bul­letin 21/07 June 5, 2007 The Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) is pleased to announce the pub­li­ca­tion of its annual in-depth analy­sis of the fed­eral bud­get related to arts and cul­ture issues.  E-mail us if you would like a copy of this year’s analysis. This doc­u­ment ana­lyzes the Bud­get pre­sented by the Min­is­ter of Finance, the Hon. Jim Fla­herty, on March 19, 2007, by look­ing at fed­eral fund­ing to the Depart­ment of Cana­dian Her­itage (DCH), its agen­cies and crown...

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The CCA looks for government leadership on the issue of federal grants and contributions

  CCA Bul­letin 20/07 Ottawa, May 11, 2007 Of grants and con­tri­bu­tion agree­ments The Canada Coun­cil for the arts launches a con­sul­ta­tion CCA Vice Pres­i­dent honoured The Grants and con­tri­bu­tion agree­ments file The Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) has, for some time now, been mak­ing the case for less oner­ous account­abil­ity require­ments that should be reflec­tive of the amounts of money in ques­tion.  The CCA was pleased to see that the Blue Rib­bon Panel (BRP) on...

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2007–2008 Report on Plans and Priorities (RPP) Provides Further Clues to Federal Government’s Cultural Policy

CCA Bul­letin 19/07 May 8, 2007 In the Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts’ (CCA) first analy­sis of the 2007–2008 fed­eral bud­get we com­mented that there is no obvi­ous, over­ar­ch­ing cul­tural plan or pol­icy the announced expen­di­tures can be linked to.  Try­ing to deter­mine where the Gov­ern­ment may be head­ing with regards to the arts and cul­ture sec­tor requires read­ing into a series of seem­ingly ad-hoc deci­sions and occa­sional pro­nounce­ments, as illus­trated in our...

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First new national museum created outside of National Capital Region

CCA Bul­letin 18/07 May 1, 2007 Just the Facts The Prime Min­is­ter of Canada, the Right Hon­ourable Stephen Harper, was recently in Win­nipeg, Man­i­toba, to announce the des­ig­na­tion of Canada’s newest national museum, the Cana­dian Museum for Human Rights. This project was cham­pi­oned by the late Israel Asper and his fam­ily has con­tin­ued to work for the cre­ation of this insti­tu­tion, which will be sit­u­ated at The Forks in Win­nipeg.  The com­mit­ment of the fed­eral gov­ern­ment...

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Ontario Inches Towards Status of the Artist Policies as the CCA publishes a national “Status of Status” review

April 12, 2007 Just the Facts After over a decade of promises by three con­sec­u­tive gov­ern­ments, the provin­cial gov­ern­ment of Ontario has made some very mod­est pro­pos­als to address sta­tus of the artist issues in the province, join­ing Québec and Saskatchewan as the third provin­cial gov­ern­ment to address sta­tus of the artist issues in leg­is­la­tion or policy Bill 187, An Act respect­ing bud­get mea­sures, interim appro­pri­a­tions and other mat­ters, includes a pro­posal for the...

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Canada seeks key role in the implementation of UNESCO Cultural Diversity Convention

  CCA Bul­letin 16/07 April 10 2007 Just the facts As announced in the CCA’s Jan­u­ary 24 Bul­letin, the UNESCO Con­ven­tion on the pro­tec­tion and pro­mo­tion of the diver­sity of cul­tural expres­sions has come into force on March 18, 2007. Devel­op­ments in this file con­tinue to occur rapidly and inter­na­tional sup­port for this impor­tant treaty is grow­ing. Fifty-six coun­tries are now par­ties to the Con­ven­tion and more are expected to join in the com­ing months. In express­ing...

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Disappointments Continue for Canada’s Museums

CCA Bul­letin 15/07 April 3, 2007 Just the facts For over a year now the Cana­dian muse­ums sec­tor has been hop­ing that the Min­is­ter of Cana­dian Her­itage, the Hon. Bev Oda, would finally deliver a new national muse­ums pol­icy, which she sup­ported so heart­edly when she was the Con­ser­v­a­tive Party’s Her­itage critic while in opposition. After the ini­tial dis­ap­point­ment of see­ing noth­ing reflected in the first May 2, 2006 fed­eral bud­get of the “new” Gov­ern­ment of Canada,...

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Update on the Canadian Television Fund (CTF)

CCA Bul­letin 14/07 April 2, 2007 Just the facts… Whereas lengthy and open pub­lic processes have char­ac­ter­ized the CRTC’s review of its com­mer­cial radio and over-the-air tele­vi­sion poli­cies, the exam­i­na­tion of the Cana­dian Tele­vi­sion Fund (CTF) cri­sis has left the pub­lic arena pro­vided by the Par­lia­men­tary Stand­ing Com­mit­tee on Her­itage and moved behind closed doors, with the promise of maybe a pub­lic hear­ing at the end of the process. On Feb­ru­ary 20, 2007 the CRTC...

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