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The rules of the new Canada Periodical Fund: The impact on arts and culture magazines

CCA Bul­letin 4/10 Jan­u­ary 28, 2010   Just the Facts On Wednes­day Jan­u­ary 20, 2010, the Hon. James Moore, Min­is­ter of Cana­dian Her­itage announced that the cri­te­ria for receiv­ing fund­ing from the Canada Peri­od­i­cal Fund (CPF) will dif­fer from the pre­vi­ous Cana­dian Mag­a­zine Fund (CMF) and the Pub­li­ca­tions Assis­tance Pro­gram (PAP. also known as the “postal sub­sidy”), which it is replac­ing as of April 1, 2010. The CPF pro­vides finan­cial assis­tance to the Cana­dian...

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Parliament’s Prorogation: What does it mean for the arts and culture sector?

  CCA Bul­letin 1/10 Jan­u­ary 6, 2010   Just the facts On Decem­ber 30, 2009, the Gov­er­nor Gen­eral of Canada approved a pro­ro­ga­tion which put an end to the sec­ond ses­sion of Canada’s 40th Par­lia­ment.  The Par­lia­ment of Canada will be sus­pended until its return on March 3, 2010 when the Speech from the Throne will be given, fol­lowed the next day by the pre­sen­ta­tion of the 2010 fed­eral budget. This is the sec­ond such pro­ro­ga­tion under the 40th Par­lia­ment: just a year ago, the...

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Musical Diversity Funding: a pre-Holiday Discordant Report

CCA Bul­letin 30/09 Decem­ber 14, 2009 Just the facts On Decem­ber 9, the Stand­ing Com­mit­tee on Her­itage pre­sented its report on the three hear­ings on the abo­li­tion of the Musi­cal Diver­sity Pro­grams ($ 1.3m) admin­is­tered by the Canada  Coun­cil of the Arts on behalf of the Depart­ment of Cana­dian Heritage. The pro­grams abol­ished tar­geted the record­ing and dis­tri­b­u­tion of so-called “spe­cial­ized” music, i.e. “music whose intent or con­tent is not shaped by the desire for...

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2010 Pre-budget Consultations Report: Arts and Culture pushed to the back burner once again!

CCA Bul­letin 29/09 Decem­ber 11, 2009       Just the Facts On Decem­ber 9, the Stand­ing Com­mit­tee on Finance pre­sented to the House of Com­mons its Report on the 2010 pre-budget con­sul­ta­tions titled A pros­per­ous and sus­tain­able future for Canada: needed fed­eral actions. Over 400 orga­ni­za­tions appeared in front of the Com­mit­tee in hear­ings held across the coun­try over the past three months, at a cost of “half a mil­lion dol­lars to tax­pay­ers”, accord­ing to the Lib­er­als....

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FROM THE DESK of Alain Pineau: Update on CCA Activities

CCA Bul­letin 28/09 Decem­ber 1, 2009   The past sev­eral weeks have been quite busy here at the Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) and it is about time I bring you up to date on what has been going on, par­tic­u­larly on the advo­cacy front. In this bul­letin, I will dis­cuss the following: CCA’s pre­sen­ta­tion to the newly formed all-party Arts Caucus; CCA‘s quest for reli­able and timely cul­tural statistics; CCA’s call on the CRTC to ensure Cana­di­ans have access to qual­ity Cana­dian...

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CCA urges CRTC to regulate cable and satellite rates

CCA Bul­letin 27/09 Novem­ber 3, 2009   Just the Facts The fed­eral gov­ern­ment has recently instructed the CRTC to hold a pub­lic hear­ing to ask the assess the impact on con­sumers of com­pen­sat­ing over-the-air tele­vi­sion broad­cast­ers – such as CTV, Global and CBC – for the dis­tri­b­u­tion of  their sig­nals by the cable and satel­lite indus­try. This is an impor­tant issue indeed because, as the Order in Coun­cil (OIC) points out, the vast major­ity of Cana­di­ans receive their...

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Privatized Culture in Bad Times: Evaluating the American System of Cultural Patronage

CCA Bul­letin 26/09 Octo­ber 29, 2009     Just the Facts On Tues­day, Octo­ber 20, the Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA), in part­ner­ship with the Uni­ver­sity of Ottawa, pre­sented a lec­ture by Pro­fesseur Kevin Mulc­ahy, Shel­don Bey­chok Dis­tin­guished Pro­fes­sor in the Depart­ment of Polit­i­cal Sci­ence at Louisiana State Uni­ver­sity, who dis­cussed the evolv­ing model of Amer­i­can cul­tural pol­icy within the con­text of the eco­nomic downturn. Tell me more The...

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The CCA urges the government to keep investing in musical development and diversity

CCA Bul­letin 25/09 Octo­ber 28, 2009   Just the facts Last week, the CCA appeared in front of the Stand­ing Com­mit­tee on Her­itage which is cur­rently study­ing the impacts of los­ing two pro­grams abol­ished by the fed­eral gov­ern­ment: invest­ing in the record­ing and mar­ket­ing of “spe­cial­ized” Cana­dian music. These pro­grams gave grants to musi­cians pro­duc­ing works which, while not cur­rently com­mer­cially viable, are deemed artis­ti­cally inno­v­a­tive and capa­ble of...

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The CCA in front of the Finance Committee: First priority, market development!

CCA Bul­letin 23/09 Sep­tem­ber 21, 2009   Just the facts Last Thurs­day, the Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) appeared in front of the Stand­ing Com­mit­tee on Finance to present and defend its 2010 pre-budget sub­mis­sion. The rules guid­ing the sub­mis­sions to this annual con­sul­ta­tion are quite restric­tive, with each brief lim­ited to five pages, com­pris­ing no more than three rec­om­men­da­tions. Given the unique breadth of the CCA man­date, in our writ­ten sub­mis­sion, we...

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The CCA’s 2009 Federal Budget Analysis: Finding Solid Ground?

CCA Bul­letin 22/09 Sep­tem­ber 10, 2009     Today the Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) pub­lishes its 2009 Bud­get Analy­sis which exam­ines fed­eral fund­ing for arts, cul­ture and her­itage from 2008/09 — 2009/10. This analy­sis looks at orga­ni­za­tional and fund­ing changes within the Depart­ment of Cana­dian Her­itage (DCH); fed­eral fund­ing of key pro­grams across the arts, her­itage and cul­tural agen­cies and indus­tries as well as crown agen­cies. It also cov­ers other...

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