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CCA Presentation to the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage for its CBC Mandate Review

  CCA Bul­letin 13/07 March 26, 2007 The CCA has tabled a brief to the Stand­ing Com­mit­tee on Cana­dian Her­itage for its cur­rent review of the man­date of the CBC.  The CCA will appear in front of the Com­mit­tee on Tues­day March 27. While the CCA wel­comes the oppor­tu­nity of this pub­lic debate about the man­date of the CBC/SRC in the 21st cen­tury, we must point to the fact that what is required is a full-picture exam­i­na­tion of Cana­dian Broadcasting’s “eco­log­i­cal sys­tem” and...

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Deconstructing the Federal Budget 2007 from a cultural point of view

CCA Bul­letin 12/07 March 22, 2007 A sec­ond look at Monday’s budget For the past two days, since Bud­get Day in the House of Com­mons, the CCA has been look­ing at the Government’s Main Esti­mates for 2007-08. The Main Esti­mates are the pro­jected spend­ing of the fed­eral gov­ern­ment in all gov­ern­ment depart­ments and agen­cies for any given fis­cal year. This is where the Bud­get starts to make con­crete sense and where close scrutiny reveals whether the money announced is new or not or whether...

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Federal Budget 2007 falls well short of adopting CCA’s “Creative New Way of Thinking”

CCA Bul­letin 11/07 March 19, 2007 The Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA), the largest national forum for the arts and cul­ture sec­tor in Canada, greets today’s 2007 bud­get announce­ment by the Min­is­ter of Finance, the Hon. Jim Fla­herty, with some mea­sure of disappointment. “It is unfor­tu­nate that the Gov­ern­ment did not seize this impor­tant oppor­tu­nity to artic­u­late a long-term vision for the arts and cul­ture sec­tor in Canada.  This is an encour­ag­ing fed­eral bud­get, but not...

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Report on CCA Policy and Advocacy 2006-07 Priorities and publication of the 2007-08 priorities

  CCA Bul­letin 09/07 Ottawa, Fri­day, March 9, 2007 Just the Facts… As the Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts looks back at its National Pol­icy Con­fer­ence held just one year ago in early March 2006, this exer­cise pro­vides us with the oppor­tu­nity to report on the progress the orga­ni­za­tion has achieved in deal­ing with the pri­or­i­ties that con­fer­ence del­e­gates rec­om­mended to the CCA Board of Governors: increased and sta­ble fund­ing for the arts and cul­ture sector, equity for...

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Federal Government Seeks Input on a Code of Conduct for Procurement, plus Important Announcements

  CCA Bul­letin 08/07 Ottawa, Thurs­day, Feb­ru­ary 22, 2007 Fed­eral Gov­ern­ment Seeks Input on a Code of Con­duct for Procurement Delays on the Fed­eral Account­abil­ity Act unac­counted for Update on the CCA Cul­tural Pol­icy Mandate A New Plan­ning Tool for arts, cul­tural and her­itage organizations Fed­eral Code of Con­duct for Procurement On Feb­ru­ary 9 2007, the Hon. Michael Fortier, Min­is­ter of Pub­lic Works and Gov­ern­ment Ser­vices Canada, announced that the fed­eral...

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The CCA Applauds the Blue Ribbon Panel’s Report on Grants and Contributions

CCA Bul­letin 06/07 Ottawa, Mon­day, Feb­ru­ary 19, 2007 Dear reg­u­lar CCA Bul­letin reader – Please note that in the next two weeks we are antic­i­pat­ing an unusu­ally heavy cycle of bul­letin com­mu­ni­ca­tions ema­nat­ing from our Ottawa bureau.   So, please keep your eyes peeled on your inbox for devel­op­ments regard­ing our activ­i­ties and the won­der­ful world of Cana­dian fed­eral cul­tural policy! Just the Facts The Blue Rib­bon Panel on Grants and Con­tri­bu­tions has finally released...

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FROM THE DESK of Alain Pineau: A bit of this, a bit of that…

CCA Bul­letin 05/07 Ottawa, Fri­day, Feb­ru­ary 16, 2007 CCA 2007 Awards Reminder: Call for Nom­i­na­tions Cuts to Pub­lic Diplo­macy Pro­gram: a clarification A last minute Online Pre-Budget 2007! Elec­tion readi­ness: CCA writes to the 5 Major Fed­eral Polit­i­cal Parties As awards sea­son heats up in Canada, with the Junos and the Jutras fast approach­ing, the Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) would like to remind mem­bers to give seri­ous con­sid­er­a­tion to pre­sent­ing nom­i­nees...

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Mid-Winter Update from Parliament Hill

  CCA Bul­letin 04/07 Ottawa, Wednes­day, Feb­ru­ary 7, 2007 CBC Man­date Review Changes within the Stand­ing Com­mit­tee on Cana­dian Heritage Cana­dian Tele­vi­sion Fund cri­sis and other issues The Canada Coun­cil for the Arts launches spe­cial 50th anniver­sary website The House of Com­mons resumed sit­ting last Mon­day, Jan­u­ary 29 th, mark­ing the...

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Dispute Erupts over the Canadian Television Fund (CTF)

CCA Bul­letin 03/07 Jan­u­ary 30, 2007 Just the Facts Some of Canada’s largest cable firms have decided that they will no longer be con­trib­u­tors to the Cana­dian Tele­vi­sion Fund (CTF). In a series of state­ments from Shaw Com­mu­ni­ca­tions and Videotron, these cable com­pa­nies have said that they can no longer jus­tify the con­tri­bu­tions that they make to the fund while the CBC...

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UNESCO Cultural Diversity Convention set to be implemented

  CCA Bul­letin 02/07 Jan­u­ary 24 2007 Just the facts The UNESCO Con­ven­tion on the pro­tec­tion and pro­mo­tion of the diver­sity of cul­tural expres­sions will come into force on March 18, 2007. This is the lat­est stage in a remark­able cam­paign and process in which the Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) has been an impor­tant player. The CCA cel­e­brates ...

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