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The CCA com­mu­ni­cates reg­u­larly with its mem­bers and the pub­lic regard­ing its work pro­mot­ing and defend­ing the arts, cul­ture and her­itage sec­tor. From time to time, Alain Pineau adds his per­sonal touch as pre­sented in this blog. Read on and share your thoughts by post­ing replies.

 

 

FROM THE DESK OF Alain Pineau: What’s happening with the CCA?

CCA Bul­letin 29/11 Octo­ber 24, 2011 I am back from pre-consultation ses­sions in Toronto and Mon­tréal, with my head full of the sev­eral expres­sions of sup­port and the con­struc­tive sug­ges­tions offered, and I real­ize that I have not com­mu­ni­cated with you in a long time.  I can assure you that it is not because we have been idle at the CCA dur­ing the past month, far from it! I will come back to the con­sul­ta­tion process at the end of this bul­letin, but first, here is a quick wrap-up of high­lights of...

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FROM THE DESK of Alain Pineau: The CCA enters summer on a high note

CCA  Bul­letin 23/11 June 27, 2011 Last week, on the very day of its 66th anniver­sary, the CCA held its June board meet­ing in Ottawa, lead­ing up to the first day of sum­mer. Out­go­ing and new incom­ing board mem­bers engaged in an extremely stim­u­lat­ing strate­gic con­ver­sa­tion on the future direc­tion of the CCA.  This was a larger group than usual, bring­ing many regions, dis­ci­plines and per­spec­tives to the con­ver­sa­tion. Among other top­ics, the board dis­cussed the role that advo­cacy...

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FROM THE DESK of Alain Pineau: Cold grey weather welcomes Parliamentarians to Ottawa

CCA Bul­letin 20/11 June 2, 2011     Sum­mer was with us at the begin­ning of the week, but it’s cold grey weather that marks the return of our Par­lia­men­tar­i­ans to Ottawa, to the start of Canada’s 41st Par­lia­ment. Today, our mem­bers of Par­lia­ment will vote by secret bal­lot to elect a new Speaker of the House of Com­mons. This may take quite a few rounds of vot­ing… or not! Tomor­row after­noon, the Gov­er­nor Gen­eral will go to Par­lia­ment to deliver his first Speech from the Throne, in which...

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FROM THE DESK of Alain Pineau: Members of Parliament return to the Hill

CCA Bul­letin 4/11 Jan­u­ary 31, 2011   With Jan­u­ary already behind us, politi­cians are back in Ottawa today to resume their leg­isla­tive busi­ness. All this in the midst of increas­ing spec­u­la­tion that the life of this Par­lia­ment may come to an end as soon as the Min­is­ter of Finance stands up in the House of Com­mons to deliver the bud­get speech. Spec­u­la­tion will likely con­tinue for the next eight to 10 weeks. As it hap­pens, the CCA will be very active around the Hill this week with a ...

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FROM THE DESK of Alain Pineau: A nice way to start the year!

CCA Bul­letin 1/11 Jan­u­ary 11, 2011     I hope the hol­i­day break was great for all of you! It sure was for the CCA sec­re­tariat and frankly, it’s a good thing because we have a very busy cal­en­dar ahead of us! On the pol­icy front, Bill C-32 and copy­right are major pri­or­i­ties, but there are also the upcom­ing CRTC hear­ings regard­ing the pur­chase of CTV­globe­me­dia by BCE. We are in the final stages of prepa­ra­tion for our third Think­ing Cul­ture forum (on copy­right on Jan­u­ary 25)....

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FROM THE DESK of Alain Pineau: A follow-up to the 2010 National Policy Conference

CCA Bul­letin 29/10 Novem­ber 15, 2010 It was close to a year in the mak­ing and accord­ing to all of the feed­back received so far, the CCA’s National Pol­icy Con­fer­ence Artists: Pow­er­ing the Cre­ative Econ­omy? was a suc­cess and a thought pro­vok­ing two days which placed artists at the cen­tre of the con­ver­sa­tion. Com­ments on the three main pan­els were very pos­i­tive, as were reac­tions to two new com­po­nents included in this year’s con­fer­ence. The Emerg­ing Thinkers Speed Speaker...

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FROM THE DESK of Alain Pineau: A Summer Roundup

CCA Bul­letin 24/10 Sep­tem­ber 7, 2010   Labour Day week­end has come and gone, and one can only hope that the sum­mer weather will last a lit­tle longer. In just two weeks, the House of Com­mons will resume its work after the tra­di­tional sum­mer BBQ cir­cuits most MPs have been trekking on come to an end. Spec­u­la­tion is rife as to whether or not we will have a fall elec­tion, and the first few days of sit­ting may shed some light on the like­li­hood of such an event. How­ever, the sum­mer was not recess...

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FROM THE DESK of Alain Pineau: CCA’s Year in Review

CCA Bul­letin 17/10   June 25, 2010 The House has adjourned, the weather is warm and muggy and the earth has shaken in Ottawa. It’s now late June and after our wrap-up of the par­lia­men­tary ses­sion, it is time to review what the CCA has accom­plished over the past year. The CCA’s accom­plish­ments were dis­cussed last week in Ottawa dur­ing its annual gen­eral meet­ing and dur­ing a board meet­ing.  While the board meet­ing was occu­pied in good part by dis­cus­sions on impor­tant pol­icy issues like...

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FROM THE DESK of Alain Pineau: CCA talks culture to the Federal Liberal caucus

CCA Bul­letin 3/10 Jan­u­ary 22, 2010   On Jan­u­ary 19, the Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA)  was part of a panel of experts address­ing the Lib­eral Party of Canada’s Cau­cus held on Par­lia­ment Hill. I had the priv­i­lege of hear­ing pre­sen­ta­tions by Anne Golden, Pres­i­dent and CEO, Con­fer­ence Board of Canada, Sherri Tor­j­man, VP, Cale­don Insti­tute of Social Pol­icy, and C. Scott Clark, a for­mer civil ser­vant with a 20 year career in the Depart­ment of Finance as...

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FROM THE DESK of Alain Pineau: CCA call for Award Nominations

CCA Bul­letin 2/10 Jan­u­ary 11, 2010   The Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) is call­ing on its mem­bers to present nom­i­na­tions for its 2009 National Arts Awards. The CCA Awards are pre­sented annu­ally to mem­bers of Canada’s cul­tural com­mu­nity who have made sig­nif­i­cant con­tri­bu­tions to the spirit and vital­ity of the arts and cul­ture in this country. With so many wor­thy indi­vid­u­als nation­wide, we encour­age all CCA mem­bers to put forth nom­i­nees. Nom­i­na­tion...

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