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The CCA Releases its Analysis of the 2006 Federal Budget

CCA Bul­letin 29/06 Ottawa, Fri­day July 21, 2006 Just the Facts The Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) is pleased to announce that our annual in-depth analy­sis of the Fed­eral Bud­get is now avail­able for order­ing. This cur­rent bul­letin presents the polit­i­cal con­text of the bud­get analy­sis. High­lights of the Fed­eral Bud­get Analy­sis will be given in...

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The Federal Accountability Act Passes the House and Heads to the Senate

CCA Bul­letin 28/06 Ottawa, Thurs­day June 28, 2006 Just the Facts Bill C-2, known com­monly as the “Fed­eral Account­abil­ity Act” (or “FAA” for short), has cleared a major hur­dle on its way to becom­ing law with its pas­sage through the House of Com­mons on June 21 2006. At first sight, it almost looked at first as if it may get the same speedy pas­sage in the Upper...

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Canadian music threatened once again by last year’s CRTC Satellite Radio decision!

CCA Bul­letin 27/06 Ottawa, June 13, 2006 Those of us who objected strongly to the Cana­dian Radio-television and Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Com­mis­sion (CRTC) deci­sion last year to license satel­lite radio will find they were right to describe the new ser­vice (and the con­di­tions of license attached to it) as bring­ing a Tro­jan Horse within the walls of Cana­dian Con­tent regulation. We saw the...

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Late Spring Echoes from the Hill

CCA Bul­letin 26/06 Ottawa, June 5, 2006 The Hon. Bev Oda appeared before the Stand­ing Com­mit­tee on Cana­dian Her­itage on Thurs­day June 1 to dis­cuss her Department’s pri­or­i­ties. Obvi­ously, like so many other things on the Hill these days, the pro­ceed­ings were largely coloured by elec­toral pre­oc­cu­pa­tions. The Min­is­ter spent a con­sid­er­able amount of time and effort...

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Will the CRTC increase Canadian content rules for commercial radio?

CCA Bul­letin 25/06 Ottawa, May 24, 2006 The Cana­dian Radio-television and Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Com­mis­sion (CRTC) spent all of last week in Gatineau , Québec, hold­ing a pub­lic hear­ing on the review of its Com­mer­cial Radio Pol­icy.  The Com­mis­sion received a total of 183 briefs from var­i­ous indi­vid­u­als and orga­ni­za­tions from all over the coun­try. Of...

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FROM THE DESK of Alain Pineau: “Is the new Federal Accountability Act a responsible piece of legislation to pass ‘full steam ahead’?”

CCA Bul­letin 24/06 Ottawa, May 15, 2006 This was the ques­tion on everyone’s mind after a two and a half hour brief­ing meet­ing last week in the 22 nd floor board­room of the Depart­ment of Finance, orga­nized by the Cana­dian Asso­ci­a­tion of Man­u­fac­tur­ers and Exporters and attended by myself and Cul­tural Pol­icy Advi­sor, James Mis­sen , on behalf of the Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of...

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Some Good News for Canada’s Arts and Culture Sector Announced in 2006 Federal Budget

CCA Bul­letin 23/06 For imme­di­ate release Ottawa, May 2, 2006 The Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) is encour­aged by the announce­ment of new monies for the Canada Coun­cil for the Arts con­tained in the 2006 Fed­eral Bud­get unveiled today by the Hon. Jim Fla­herty, Min­is­ter of Finance. This announce­ment comes on the heels of months of sus­tained advo­cacy ...

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FROM THE DESK of Alain Pineau: The federal budget: where will arts and culture be?

CCA Bul­letin 22/06 April 28, 2006 If the Main Esti­mates pre­sented by the gov­ern­ment on Tues­day were more than a tech­ni­cal­ity to keep the machin­ery of Gov­ern­ment work­ing prior to the bud­get, there should be seri­ous con­cerns in the cul­tural sec­tor. Noth­ing to be found there about the long-overdue fed­eral invest­ment in artis­tic cre­ativ­ity and ...

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FROM THE DESK of Alain Pineau: Pre-budget Consultation: Finance Minister Flaherty expresses interest in at least two of the CCA’s priorities!

CCA Bul­letin 21/06 April 20, 2006 The CCA par­tic­i­pated Wednes­day in a meet­ing with Fed­eral Finance Min­is­ter James Fla­herty, Par­lia­men­tary Sec­re­tary Diane Ablon­czy and Finance Depart­ment Offi­cers, in the con­text of the pre-budget con­sul­ta­tions launched by the Min­is­ter on April 6. The meet­ing regrouped rep­re­sen­ta­tives from 18 national orga­ni­za­tions, ...

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ADVOCACY ALERT! SMALL WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY TO PARTICIPATE IN ONLINE 2006 PRE-BUDGET CONSULTATIONS!

CCA Bul­letin 20/06 April 10, 2006 The Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) has learned that just last Thurs­day April 6 the Hon. Jim Fla­herty, Min­ster of Finance, announced that the Gov­ern­ment of Canada is indeed car­ry­ing out pre-budget con­sul­ta­tions for its upcom­ing 2006-07 fed­eral bud­get. How­ever, this year’s process dif­fers sig­nif­i­cantly from the pre-budget con­sul­ta­tions ...

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