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Telecommunications Policy Review Panel Final Report: Time for global thinking, not tinkering!

CCA Bul­letin 18/06 The Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Pol­icy Review Panel issued its final report recently and the Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) has been sift­ing through the 369 page tome in order to dis­cern what its rec­om­men­da­tions bode for the future of Cana­dian cul­tural sovereignty. The Panel was exam­in­ing the rapidly chang­ing telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions envi­ron­ment to assess where Canada stands in the tele­com “rev­o­lu­tion”, and how the country’s cur­rent reg­u­la­tory and ...

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The Speech From the Throne — 39th Parliament of Canada “Turning a New Leaf”

CCA Bul­letins 17/06 April 5, 2006   The Gov­er­nor Gen­eral of Canada, the Rt. Hon. Michaëlle Jean, deliv­ered the Speech from the Throne yes­ter­day to an assem­bly of Mem­bers of Par­lia­ment, Sen­a­tors, the Supreme Court Jus­tices, Chief of the Defense Staff, mil­i­tary rep­re­sen­ta­tives and select invited guests. The Speech from the Throne is an impor­tant indi­ca­tor of the gen­eral direc­tions that the Gov­ern­ment of Canada intends to take dur­ing its man­date. As expected, the Speech dealt with...

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The CCA Defends Canadian Content Regulations and Supports Canadian music Talent Development in its Brief to the CRTC

CCA Bul­letin 15/06 March 31, 2006   A few months ago, the CRTC announced that it would pro­ceed to Review the 1998 Com­mer­cial Radio Pol­icy (see CRTC PN 2006–1). Com­mer­cial radio broad­cast­ers have been, and remain, an impor­tant part of the dis­tri­b­u­tion sys­tem for infor­ma­tion, music and enter­tain­ment mate­ri­als. Over the course of the hear­ings on May 15, 2006, the CRTC will review impor­tant cul­tural issues – explain­ing why the Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) deter­mined it...

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Beverley J. Oda, new Minister of Canadian Heritage

CCA Bul­letins 09/06 Feb­ru­ary 6, 2006   The new Prime Min­is­ter of Canada Stephen Harper has placed the Depart­ment of Cana­dian Her­itage in the hands of Bev­er­ley J. Oda, the re-elected Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment for the rid­ing of Durham (Ontario).  CCA con­grat­u­lates Ms. Oda on the occa­sion of her appoint­ment as Min­is­ter and looks for­ward to work­ing closely with her and the offi­cials in her Prime Department. The CCA’s mis­sion is to con­tribute to a clear-headed debate about Cana­dian...

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The CCA urges the new Government of Canada to strengthen our arts and culture on national and international fronts

CCA Bul­letin 6/06 Jan­u­ary 24, 2006 The Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) con­grat­u­lates all new andreturn­ing Mem­bers of Par­lia­ment for their elec­tion to the 39th Par­lia­ment of Canada, and wel­comes­the new gov­ern­ment cho­sen by Cana­di­ans.  As an impor­tant first order of busi­ness for the cul­tur­al­sec­tor, the CCA asks the new gov­ern­ment to hon­our the planned increase to the bud­get of the Canada Coun­cil for the Arts announced last Novem­ber 23. “Increas­ing the Canada...

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2006 FEDERAL ELECTION IS DRAWING TO A CLOSE… AND THE CCA’S WORK HAS JUST BEGUN

CCA Bul­letin 5/06 Jan­u­ary 20, 2006 The last few days of Canada’s first win­ter elec­tion in many years has seen­po­lit­i­cal cam­paign­ers go into over­drive as they push towards the vote next Mon­day Jan­u­ary 23rd.The media are scram­bling to cover the bar­rage of last-minute repar­tee and rhetoric, while the coun­try is abuzz with the ques­tion: “What will Par­lia­ment look like on Tues­day Jan­u­ary 24th?” When one con­sid­ers that the words “arts and cul­ture” never quite made it past the lips...

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ONE WEEK TO GO IN THE 2006 FEDERAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN… ADVOCACY UPDATE FROM THE CCA

CCA Bulletin3/06 Jan­u­ary 17, 2006 Only seven days remain before Cana­di­ans go to the polls in the first fed­eral win­ter elec­tion in a num­ber of years.  The Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) con­tin­ues to work steadily to pro­vide our mem­bers, stake­hold­ers and sup­port­ers with as much use­ful infor­ma­tion as pos­si­ble with respect to the fed­eral par­ties’ posi­tions on arts and cul­ture issues.  Since our last bul­letin 02/06 sent Jan­u­ary 9 2006, the fol­low­ing par­ties have...

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Reality check – Where business left off in the House of Commons

CCA Bul­letin 2/06 Jan­u­ary 9, 2006 The dis­so­lu­tion of Par­lia­ment for a win­ter elec­tion means that work in the House of Com­mons grinds to a halt.  Now that the writ has dropped, there is much to report on where busi­ness left off.  Sev­eral pieces of leg­is­la­tion that would have impacted Canada’s artists, arts orga­ni­za­tions, and cul­tural indus­tries fell from the Order Paper; oth­ers passed and received Royal Assent; and the activ­i­ties of var­i­ous Stand­ing Com­mit­tees cer­tainly lost...

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FROM THE DESK of Alain Pineau: CCA’S NEW YEAR BEGINS WITH FURTHER FEDERAL ELECTION ADVOCACY

CCA Bul­letin 1/06 Jan­u­ary 3, 2006 After a short break for the hol­i­day sea­son, the Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) greets the begin­ning of 2006 in full “elec­tions advo­cacy mode”.  We will con­tinue our efforts to put arts and cul­ture issues on the agenda dur­ing the cur­rent cam­paign and I invite all mem­bers, stake­hold­ers, and the pub­lic to visit the grow­ing sec­tion of our web­site www.ccarts.ca/en/2005ElectionNews1.htm ded­i­cated to CCA’s 2006 fed­eral elec­tion advocacy. This...

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What if CCA asked the questions in the federal leaders’ debates?

Bul­letin 53/05 CCA’s Fed­eral Elec­tion Advo­cacy 2006 Ottawa, Decem­ber 21, 2005 – The first round of party lead­ers’ debates for the 2006 fed­eral elec­tion have come and gone, and media pun­dits and party “war roomers” con­tinue to weigh the mer­its and draw­backs of the new for­mat while sip­ping their hol­i­day eggnog. The Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts is focused pri­mar­ily on the con­tent of both debates and not sur­pris­ingly, arts and cul­ture issues were absent from the four hours in total of...

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