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Wrapping up 2006: Useful Information on “Odds & Ends”

CCA Bul­letin 54/06 Ottawa, Decem­ber 21, 2006 This CCA Bul­letin, our last one for 2006, con­tains use­ful infor­ma­tion about: Self-employed sta­tus: CCA’s let­ter of clar­i­fi­ca­tion to the Stand­ing Com­mit­tee on Finance The Canada Coun­cil for the Arts’ new “50 for 50″ Arts Challenge Arts Fund­ing: record dona­tions by indi­vid­u­als to cul­tural orga­ni­za­tions ...

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The CRTC and Canadian Cultural Content

CCA Bul­letin 53/06 Ottawa, Decem­ber 20, 2006 •  The satel­lite radio re-distribution decision •  The new Com­mer­cial Radio Policy •  The Over the Air Tele­vi­sion Pol­icy hearings •  New Media: the deci­sion to take no decision.again! Just the facts. The pro­duc­tion and...

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Accountability Act passes into law and the CCA weighs in on “Advantage Canada”

CCA Bul­letin 52/06 Decem­ber 14, 2006 Just the Facts Her Excel­lency Michaëlle Jean gave Royal Assent to Bill C-2, known pop­u­larly as the “Fed­eral Account­abil­ity Act” (FAA), on Decem­ber 12, 2006.  The leg­is­la­tion is now law and the next step of the process is the devel­op­ment of the reg­u­la­tions that will guide how the Act is interpreted. In our June 28 let­ter to the Sen­ate and sub­se­quent Octo­ber 4 pre­sen­ta­tion to the Stand­ing Sen­ate Com­mit­tee on Legal and...

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House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance Releases Report on Pre-Budget 2007 Recommendations

CCA Bul­letin 51/06 Decem­ber 11, 2006 Just the Facts On Decem­ber 7, the Stand­ing Com­mit­tee on Finance released its report to the Min­is­ter of Finance, the Hon. James Fla­herty, regard­ing its 2007 fed­eral pre-budget con­sul­ta­tions. Over­all, the Com­mit­tee has made forty-two rec­om­men­da­tions about mea­sures it would like to see reflected in the next fed­eral bud­get. The...

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“Advantage Canada” Poised To Stir Up Jurisdictional Issues — What could this mean for arts and culture?

CCA Bul­letin 50/06 Novem­ber 30, 2006 Just the Facts Last week the Min­is­ter of Finance, the Hon­ourable James Fla­herty, pre­sented his eco­nomic update to Par­lia­ment. Under the title “Advan­tage Canada : Build­ing a Strong Econ­omy for Cana­di­ans”, Min­is­ter Fla­herty intro­duced his Government’s long-range finan­cial plans for man­ag­ing our nation’s...

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Hope on the museum policy front, a mandate review for the CBC, and a clarification on “cultural rights”

CCA Bul­letin 49/06 Ottawa, Novem­ber 28, 2006 Let us start with a short update on a Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) pol­icy pri­or­ity, namely the need for a new Museum pol­icy. You will no doubt remem­ber that the cut of $4.6 M to the Museum Assis­tance Pro­gram (MAP) announced at the end of Sep­tem­ber as part of the fed­eral government’s real­lo­ca­tion...

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CCA Analysis of the 2006–2007 Supplementary Estimates (A)

CCA Bul­letin 48/06 Novem­ber 17, 2006 Just the Facts The 2006–2007 Sup­ple­men­tary Esti­mates (A) were tabled in the House of Com­mons recently. Of inter­est to mem­bers and sup­port­ers of the Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) is the com­bi­na­tion of new fund­ing, as well as inter­nal trans­fers of exist­ing fund­ing, announced for the Depart­ment of Cana­dian Her­itage ...

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Updates On Federal Reviews and Other News

CCA Bul­letin 47/06 Novem­ber 14, 2006 In Bul­letin 39/06, the Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) informed you about a series of reviews of pro­grams and poli­cies under­taken by “Canada’s new gov­ern­ment”. Some of these reviews have now been com­pleted and the reports are pub­lic. Other reviews have also been con­cluded and their out­comes are evi­dent in deci­sions that have been...

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How the Canada Council intends to spend its extra $50M if and when it gets it

CCA Bul­letin 45/06 Octo­ber 27, 2006 Just the Facts On Tues­day Octo­ber 24, the Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) attended, along with rep­re­sen­ta­tives of some 40 national arts ser­vice orga­ni­za­tions, a meet­ing con­vened by the Canada Coun­cil of the Arts ( the Coun­cil) to explain how it intends to dis­trib­ute the $20M + $30M it expects to see added respec­tively to its ...

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CCA Analysis of 2006-07 Government Plans and Priorities

CCA Bul­letin 44/06 Octo­ber 25, 2006 Just the Facts The Hon­ourable John Baird, Pres­i­dent of the Trea­sury Board, recently tabled the 2006–2007 Reports on Plans and Pri­or­i­ties (RPP) in the House of Com­mons. These reports con­tain the expen­di­ture plans for 90 fed­eral gov­ern­ment depart­ments and agen­cies includ­ing, and of par­tic­u­lar inter­est to mem­bers and...

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