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Agenda 21

Min­is­ter Chris­tine St-Pierre announced on Decem­ber 5th that Que­bec would be the first province to adopt its own Agenda 21 on Cul­ture. Agenda 21 allows us to carve a place for cul­ture in all polit­i­cal actions of the gov­ern­ment; Que­bec is the first province in the world to inte­grate this idea into their sus­tain­able devel­op­ment plans. The move is a response to the Con­ven­tion on the pro­tec­tion and pro­mo­tion of diver­sity of cul­tural expres­sion from UNESCO that pushes states to inte­grate...

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From the traveling desk of Alain Pineau — January 10, 2012

From the traveling desk of Alain Pineau — January 10, 2012

VICTORIA — Well, it’s on! After weeks of prepa­ra­tion, my cross-country con­sul­ta­tion tour started yes­ter­day in British Colum­bia where I am spend­ing the week. I must con­fess that after the snow and cold we’ve had in Ottawa these past weeks, it is agree­ably exotic to forego boots and scarf: it’s a pleas­ant 8° C in Vic­to­ria and the rain seems pleas­antly spring-like to some­one from the East­ern part of the country. Why this pan-Canadian tour which will take me to 14 cities between now and Feb­ru­ary...

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From the desk of the National Director: New Year and Renewal

First things first: there is still time to wish all of you health, for­ti­tude and seren­ity for 2012. I’m afraid we will all need that and then some! Every­one knows that the begin­ning of a new year is a time for renewal. This is espe­cially true for the CCA this year: 2012 will go down in its long his­tory as the year we recre­ated the CCA to ensure that it con­tinue its unique con­tri­bu­tion to the wel­fare of the Cana­dian arts, cul­ture and her­itage com­mu­ni­ties. Faced with the expected deci­sion of the...

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Digital New Brunswick

A new fund­ing appli­ca­tion process was cre­ated in New Brunswick for the film indus­try after con­sul­ta­tions with the tele­vi­sion, new media and film sec­tors in November. This may help to rec­tify some of the loss after the province can­celled a tax credit pro­gram for audio­vi­sual pro­duc­tions last spring. For films this could mean between 25–30% of the pro­duc­tion expen­di­tures spent in the province could be cov­ered. Accepted projects will also receive half of the funds imme­di­ately after being awarded...

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Creative Europe

Creative Europe

Europe : A 1.8 bil­lion Euros invest­ment in cul­ture to stim­u­late the economy On Novem­ber 23, the Euro­pean Com­mis­sion unveiled a plan to boost cul­tural and cre­ative sec­tors. With a pro­posed bud­get of €1.8 bil­lion for the period 2014–2020, it would be a much-needed boost for the cul­tural and cre­ative indus­tries, which are a major source of jobs and growth in Europe. The new pro­gram would allo­cate more than €900 mil­lion in sup­port of the cin­ema and audio­vi­sual sec­tor (area cov­ered by...

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Culture 3.0. : Impact of Emerging Digital Technologies on the Cultural Sector (October 2011),

The goal of the widely expected CHRC study Cul­ture 3.0: Impact of Emerg­ing Dig­i­tal Tech­nolo­gies On the Cul­tural Sec­tor was to assess the impact of dig­i­tal tech­nolo­gies on the eight cul­tural sub-sectors and rec­om­mend pri­or­ity solu­tions to address the chal­lenges and lever­age the oppor­tu­ni­ties aris­ing from dig­i­tal tech­nolo­gies. The study is the evo­lu­tion of the 2010 Cul­tural HR Study: Trends and Issues Report, which found dig­i­tal tech­nolo­gies was the third most impor­tant...

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FROM THE DESK OF Alain Pineau: A little of this, a little of that …

CCA Bul­letin 33/11 Decem­ber 1, 2011 Well, this week has been a lit­tle dif­fer­ent than oth­ers. For once, I was able to put aside my pri­mary pre­oc­cu­pa­tion of the last few months – the rein­ven­tion and finan­cial auton­omy of the CCA (I will come back to that at the end of this bul­letin!) – to par­tic­i­pate in other forums where the stakes were just as important. This started Mon­day morn­ing with a half-day ses­sion on the impor­tance and the chal­lenges of pub­lic broad­cast­ers. This event was...

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Federal budget: Economic and Fiscal Update and the Second Set of Supplementary Estimates

CCA Bul­letin 32/11 Novem­ber 17, 2011 Just the facts Last week, the gov­ern­ment released its Update of Eco­nomic and Fis­cal Pro­jec­tions. One main mes­sage emerged from the doc­u­ment:  owing to con­tin­ued weak­ness in the global econ­omy, down­ward revi­sions for eco­nomic growth in Canada and con­sid­er­able eco­nomic uncer­tainty going for­ward, the gov­ern­ment will not return to fis­cal bal­ance until 2015–2016, a year later than pro­jected in Bud­get 2011. This does not alter the seri­ous­ness...

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FROM THE DESK OF Alain Pineau: Time for an update!

CCA Bul­letin 31/11 Novem­ber 15, 2011 How time flies! This fall is par­tic­u­larly busy for all of us: I’m not not sure exactly why, but it seems that every­one is run­ning on an accel­er­at­ing tread­mill! So it is time again to keep you posted on a num­ber of cur­rent files. The Com­pre­hen­sive Eco­nomic and Trade Agreement Let’s start with the nego­ti­a­tions between Canada and the Euro­pean Com­mu­nity. I par­tic­i­pated in the brief­ing ses­sion orga­nized by the Depart­ment of For­eign Affairs and...

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Bill C-11, the Legislative Committee Has Been Struck

CCA Bul­letin 30/11 Octo­ber 31, 2011 It is Hal­loween: what could be more ter­ri­fy­ing than to speak of copy­right! So here is the bul­letin promised in our last missive. Just the facts Sev­eral names were cir­cu­lat­ing for a few days and as per its oblig­a­tion to name com­mit­tee mem­bers within five days of the start of the sec­ond read­ing debates, the Stand­ing Com­mit­tee on Pro­ce­dure and House Affairs has estab­lished the Leg­isla­tive Com­mit­tee on Bill C-11. The com­mit­tee is made up of 12...

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