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The Canadian Conference of the Arts announces its national arts awards winners for 2006

Ottawa, ON (August 23, 2006) — The Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) is pleased to announce that its Diplôme d’honneur will be pre­sented to phil­an­thropist and the­atre pro­ducer, Bluma Appel, while the Keith Kelly Award for Cul­tural Lead­er­ship will be given to one of Canada’s long time arts advo­cates, Pat Durr. The 2006 CCA National Arts Awards cer­e­mony will be hosted by the ...

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The CCA Releases its Analysis of the 2006 Federal Budget — How would culture fare under a majority Conservative government?

Ottawa, ON (August 3, 2006) — The Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) has released its annual in-depth Annual Fed­eral Bud­get Analy­sis. The doc­u­ment exam­ines fed­eral fund­ing to the Depart­ment of Cana­dian Her­itage (DCH), cul­tural agen­cies and crown cor­po­ra­tions in Cana­dian Heritage’s port­fo­lio and other note­wor­thy devel­op­ments. It also addresses other fis­cal...

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Some good news for Canada’s arts and culture sector announced in 2006 Federal Budget

Ottawa, ON (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 by mem­bers of the country’s arts and cul­tural sec­tor, who were...

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CCA conference provides opportunity to influence new government’s cultural priorities

Ottawa, ON (Feb­ru­ary 10, 2006) — Rep­re­sen­ta­tives of Canada’s arts and cul­tural sec­tor from all dis­ci­plines and regions of Canada will gather in Ottawa March 2 to 4, 2006 to dis­cuss key sec­toral pri­or­i­ties and estab­lish strate­gies to influ­ence the cul­tural pol­icy of the new Gov­ern­ment of Canada. “Map­ping Canada’s Cul­tural Pol­icy: Where do we go from here?” will pro­vide a three-day forum for del­e­gates from across Canada to col­lec­tively iden­tify pol­icy issues that...

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The Canadian Conference of the Arts urges the new Government of Canada to maintain the planned Canada Council budget increase, as well as to strengthen Canada’s arts and culture on the national and international fronts

Ottawa - The Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) con­grat­u­lates all new and return­ing Mem­bers of Par­lia­ment for their elec­tion to the 39th Par­lia­ment of Canada, and wel­comes the new gov­ern­ment cho­sen by Cana­di­ans.  As an impor­tant first order of busi­ness for the cul­tural sec­tor, 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 Council’s bud­get by $150 mil­lion...

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The Canadian Conference of the Arts Welcomes a New National Director

OTTAWA – The Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts, the most impor­tant interest-based coali­tion aimed at pro­mot­ing arts and cul­ture in Canada, is pleased to announce the appoint­ment of Alain Pineau as National Direc­tor. Mr. Pineau comes to the CCA with an impres­sive track record in broad­cast­ing, cul­tural indus­tries and vol­un­teerism in the arts. At the Cana­dian Broad­cast­ing Cor­po­ra­tion, he was amongst other things Man­ag­ing Edi­tor of National News for French radio, Vice Pres­i­dent, Plan­ning...

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The Canadian Conference of the Arts announces its National Arts Award winners for 2005

OTTAWA – The Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) is pleased to announce Nini Baird and Roch Car­rier as its national arts award win­ners for 2005. The 2005 National Arts Awards cer­e­mony will take place at the National Arts Cen­tre in Ottawa on Sep­tem­ber 28, 2005 from 6-9pm. The Keith Kelly Award for Cul­tural Lead­er­ship will be pre­sented to one of Canada’s long time arts advo­cate Nini Baird. A West Van­cou­ver res­i­dent for many years, Nini Baird has devoted 40 years to the man­age­ment; pro­mo­tion and...

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Release from the INCD — Cultural Diversity: Encouraging Human Development

The 6th Annual Meet­ing of the Inter­na­tional Net­work for Cul­tural Diver­sity, to be held 17–20 Novem­ber 2005 in Dakar, Sene­gal, is tak­ing place a cru­cial time. Shortly before, UNESCO is expected to approve the terms of the Con­ven­tion on cul­tural diversity that has been at the fore­front of the INCD’s work since its first meet­ing in 2000. We will look at the results. But, even the most effec­tive Con­ven­tion, while an essen­tial foun­da­tion, will not bring diver­sity. Achiev­ing greater cul­tural...

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CCA Releases Study of Government Spending on Culture

report on gov­ern­ment fund­ing for the arts. The report, titled “Gov­ern­ment Spend­ing on Cul­ture in Canada, 1992–93 to 2002–03”, was com­mis­sioned by the CCA from Hill Strate­gies Research Inc. The report exam­ines spend­ing on cul­ture by fed­eral, provin­cial, and munic­i­pal gov­ern­ments in Canada, focus­ing largely on changes in spend­ing between the years 1992–93 and 2002-03. It also pro­vides a more detailed overview of gov­ern­ment cul­tural spend­ing for fis­cal year 2002-03. Using...

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Important board and staff changes at the Canadian Conference of the Arts

June 30, 2005 OTTAWA – The Board of Gov­er­nors of the Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts is pleased to announce that Andrew David Ter­ris has been appointed as Interim National Direc­tor of the CCA. In order to accept this key posi­tion, Mr. Ter­ris has stepped down as CCA Pres­i­dent and resigned from the Board. The Board has filled the vacancy by elect­ing Vice Pres­i­dent Robert Spick­ler as Pres­i­dent and Karl Siegler, Chair of the CCA’s Pol­icy and Plan­ning Com­mit­tee, as Vice Pres­i­dent. “With the...

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