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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: Taking Stock of the Renewed CCA

  CCA Bul­letin 01/07 Jan­u­ary 10, 2007 As I start my sec­ond year at the helm of the Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA), I would like to take a moment to review with you what we have accom­plished over the past year… and what a very busy and chal­leng­ing year 2006 turned out to be! The main objec­tive of the CCA’s Board and Sec­re­tariat over 2006 was to refo­cus on the core mis­sion of the orga­ni­za­tion, as decided by the Board at its meet­ings in Sep­tem­ber 2005. This refo­cussing, ...

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FROM OF THE DESK of Alain Pineau: Update on CCA’s 2006 Federal Election Advocacy

CCA Bul­letin 03/06 Decem­ber 8, 2005 The fed­eral elec­tion cam­paign is now in full swing and the CCA is on the case. If you are inter­ested in the pro­mo­tion and pro­tec­tion of the arts and cul­tural sec­tor in Canada,keep an eye on your email and take action!!  In the course of the next sev­eral weeks, this is what you can expect to see from the CCA elec­tion desk: · a pro­file of how each fed­eral party fared in the last Par­lia­ment, what was achieved, what wasn’t and what is promised for the future, · key...

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The CCA updates its mission statement

CCA Bul­letin 46/06 Novem­ber 2, 2006 Just the Facts The Board of Gov­er­nors of the Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) recently held meet­ings on Octo­ber 20 & 21 2006 at the Cana­dian Cen­tre for Archi­tec­ture in Mon­tréal. The CCA Board of Gov­er­nors is con­tin­u­ing its work to firmly restore the focus of the CCA on cul­tural pol­icy analy­sis and...

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FROM THE DESK of Alain Pineau

CCA Bul­letin 41/06 Sep­tem­ber 29, 2006 As the week­end approaches, I am reflect­ing on one of the busiest weeks I have expe­ri­enced since becom­ing National Direc­tor of the Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts. The week kicked off with the details of the bil­lion dol­lar real­lo­ca­tion exer­cise. Our staff pored over every item on the list to assess the impact these reduc­tions would have on...

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The Canadian Conference of the Arts announces its National Arts Awards winners for 2006

CCA Bul­letin 35/06 August 23, 2006 Just the facts The Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) is pleased to announce Pat Durr and Bluma Appel as its National Arts Awards win­ners for 2006. The 2006 National Arts Awards cer­e­mony will be hosted by the Lieu­tenant Gov­er­nor of Ontario, the Hon­ourable James K. Bartle­man, at Queen’s Park in Toronto on Sep­tem­ber 15, 2006. The ...

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FROM THE DESK of Alain Pineau:Midsummer CCA Update (Part Three)

CCA Bul­letin 32/06 August 10, 2006 Satel­lite radio rides again — CCA files CRTC inter­ven­tion against Bell Video Group On July 25 the CCA filed an inter­ven­tion against Bell Video Group’s appli­ca­tion to the CRTC to get autho­riza­tion to dis­trib­ute, at its dis­cre­tion, either or both of the licensed Satel­lite sub­scrip­tion ser­vices. This appli­ca­tion, which is sim­i­lar to...

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FROM THE DESK of Alain Pineau: Midsummer CCA Update (Part Two)

CCA Bul­letin 31/06 August 3, 2006 CCA proudly launches “CCA’ s @gora”, its new inter­ac­tive on– line forum! Well, I am glad to say: here it is at last ! As announced at our March 2006 con­fer­ences held in Ottawa , the Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) is launch­ing the first issue of it new elec­tronic mag­a­zine, CCA’s @gora! CCA’s @gora is the...

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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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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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