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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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Cultural funding: where will the axe fall?

CCA Bul­letin 27/11 Sep­tem­ber 12, 2011 Just the facts The Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) today presents its analy­sis of the 2011 fed­eral bud­get, which was adopted in June by the 41st Par­lia­ment, fur­ther to the May gen­eral election.   Like last year, this year’s bud­get analy­sis reveals that over­all, fed­eral fund­ing to the cul­tural sec­tor remains sta­ble, which has more or less been the case since 2006 under suc­ces­sive Con­ser­v­a­tive minor­ity gov­ern­ments. While the CCA...

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The CCA urges the government to invest in a renewable resource: culture

CCA Bul­letin 26/11 August 11, 2011   Just the Facts Today, the Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) sub­mit­ted its 2012 pre-budget sub­mis­sion to the House of Com­mons’ Stand­ing Com­mit­tee on Finance. In con­sul­ta­tion with our mem­ber­ship, we encour­age the gov­ern­ment to main­tain and if pos­si­ble, increase its invest­ments in Cana­dian artis­tic cre­ativ­ity, a renew­able, non-polluting nat­ural resource that con­tributes greatly to the econ­omy, to our qual­ity of life and to our...

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Canadian programming: the CRTC returns to regulation

CCA Bul­letin 25/11 August 8, 2011 The CRTC requires pri­vate Eng­lish tele­vi­sion ser­vice providers to sup­port the pro­duc­tion of domes­tic pro­gram­ming, includ­ing “pro­grams of national inter­est” such as drama or com­edy series, doc­u­men­taries and awards shows that pro­mote Cana­dian culture. Fol­low­ing the group-based licence renewal process, the CRTC now requires Bell Media, Corus Enter­tain­ment and Shaw Media to devote at least 30% of their gross annual rev­enues to Cana­dian pro­gram­ming...

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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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Culture: what should go into the next federal budget?

CCA Bul­letin 24/11 July 11, 2011 Cul­ture: what should go into the next fed­eral budget? As is the case each sum­mer, the House of Com­mons’ Stand­ing Com­mit­tee on Finance has launched its annual national con­sul­ta­tion on what should be included or excluded in the next fed­eral bud­get. This year’s process is tak­ing place in par­al­lel with the secre­tive Strate­gic and Oper­a­tional Review which is cur­rently under­way within all gov­ern­ment depart­ments and agen­cies. The objec­tive of the review is...

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Who will be on the Heritage Standing Committee?

CCA Bul­letin 22/11 June 15, 2011 Just the Facts The 41st Par­lia­ment result­ing from the May 2 gen­eral elec­tion is get­ting set up. While a number of MPs are still mov­ing in and out of their offices, reflect­ing the sea of changes that has brought 111 new mem­bers to Par­lia­ment Hill, respon­si­bil­i­ties are slowly being assigned. On June 13, we learned a bit more with the announce­ment of the var­i­ous stand­ing com­mit­tees in the House of Commons. Under­stand­ably, the CCA is...

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Throne Speech and Federal Budget: it’s almost business as usual

CCA Bul­letin 21/11 June 7, 2011   Just the Facts On Fri­day, June 3, the Gov­er­nor Gen­eral gave a speech from the throne her­alded by many as pri­mar­ily cer­e­mo­nial. The speech toed a safe line with­out intro­duc­ing any new dras­tic pol­icy mea­sures, and we saw the same approach again in yesterday’s tabling of the fed­eral bud­get by the Min­is­ter of Finance, the Hon. James Flaherty. Min­is­ter Fla­herty tabled his sec­ond 2011 fed­eral bud­get, The Next Phase of Canada’s Eco­nomic Action...

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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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The cultural sector and the new Conservative cabinet

CCA Bul­letin 19/11 May 24, 2011 Just the Facts On May 2, 2011, Cana­di­ans went to the polls and elected a Con­ser­v­a­tive major­ity, the first major­ity gov­ern­ment in seven years. On Wednes­day, May 18, the first cab­i­net under the 41st Par­lia­ment was sworn in at Rideau Hall, the res­i­dence of the Gov­er­nor Gen­eral of Canada. The new cab­i­net is com­prised of 38 min­is­ters, with nine new faces and 10 women. On June 2, Par­lia­men­tar­i­ans will con­vene for a first time to elect the...

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