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Of this and that and other things: A pre-holiday wrap up (Part 1)

CCA Bul­letin 31/10 Decem­ber 16, 2010     Well, it’s that time of the year again. Par­lia­ment Hill is ablaze with hol­i­day lights, the House of Com­mons is in recess until Jan­u­ary 31 and we are all fret­ting for a well deserved break after a remark­ably busy fall. Before wrap­ping the season’s gifts, it is time to wrap-up a num­ber of issues before we all take off.  In this first bul­letin, you will find the lat­est on: C-32 — Revi­sion of the Copy­right Act The next fed­eral bud­get: no input...

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Why Bill C-470 should be defeated

CCA Bul­letin 30/10 Novem­ber 17, 2010   Just the facts As reported in CCA Bul­letin 22/10, Bill C-470 has passed sec­ond read­ing in the House of Com­mons and is now head­ing for study by the stand­ing com­mit­tee on finance. Intro­duced by the Hon. Albina Guarnieri (Lib­eral, Mis­sis­sauga East – Cooksville), this pri­vate member’s bill would allow the Min­is­ter of National Rev­enue to dereg­is­ter any char­i­ta­ble orga­ni­za­tion, pub­lic foun­da­tion or pri­vate foun­da­tion that has paid...

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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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The Economic Update: what does it mean for the cultural sector?

CCA Bul­letin 28/10 Novem­ber 8, 2010     Just the facts On Octo­ber 12, fed­eral Finance Min­is­ter Jim Fla­herty deliv­ered his Eco­nomic and Fis­cal Update. The speech pro­vided updated infor­ma­tion on Canada’s eco­nomic and fis­cal con­text, but did not con­tain any spend­ing announce­ments, as has some­times been the case in past years. On the eco­nomic side, so far, Canada is per­form­ing quite strongly in rela­tion to its G7 coun­ter­parts, notably the United States. On the fis­cal side,...

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After 30 years, what has UNESCO’s Recommendation concerning the Status of the Artist achieved?

CCA Bul­letin 27/10 Octo­ber 26, 2010   Just the Facts This year marks the 30th anniver­sary of the UNESCO Rec­om­men­da­tion con­cern­ing the Sta­tus of the Artist. With the sup­port of the Cana­dian Artists and Pro­duc­ers Pro­fes­sional Rela­tions Tri­bunal, the Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) has con­ducted a crit­i­cal review of this ini­tia­tive in Canada.  After 30 years of efforts, what exactly has been achieved for artists and cre­ators in this coun­try and abroad? The ques­tion...

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Copyright: the Parliamentary debate is about to begin

CCA Bul­letin 26/10 Octo­ber 25, 2010     Just the Facts Bill C-32, the Copy­right Mod­ern­iza­tion Act, is sched­uled to be pre­sented in the House of Com­mons for sec­ond read­ing next week on Tues­day, Novem­ber 2. Debate in sec­ond read­ing cov­ers the basic prin­ci­ples of the pro­posed piece of leg­is­la­tion. In an excep­tional turn of events, in the case of C-32, the gov­ern­ment has obtained the agree­ment of the three oppo­si­tion par­ties to limit debate to a min­i­mum so that the bill...

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The CCA Publishes its Annual Analysis of the Federal Budget

CCA Bul­letin 25/10 Sep­tem­ber 14, 2010     Just the Facts Hav­ing received answers to the ques­tions raised with the gov­ern­ment, the Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) is now pleased to pub­lish its annual Analy­sis of the Fed­eral Bud­get from the per­spec­tive of the arts, cul­ture and cul­tural industries. The analy­sis of the 2010 bud­get exam­ines fed­eral fund­ing to the Depart­ment of Cana­dian Her­itage, cul­tural agen­cies and Crown Cor­po­ra­tions; orga­ni­za­tional and...

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The Canadian Conference of the Arts Announces its National Arts Award Winners for 2009

(Ottawa, ON) Sep­tem­ber 13, 2010 — The Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) is pleased to announce the win­ners of its national arts awards for 2009. Françoise Sul­li­van and Joyce Zemans will receive the Diplôme d’honneur, while Mau­rice For­get and Robert Jekyll will receive the Keith Kelly Award for Cul­tural Lead­er­ship. The win­ners will be pre­sented with their awards dur­ing the CCA’s 65th anniver­sary Gala din­ner, tak­ing place on Novem­ber 1, 2010 at the National Arts Cen­tre (NAC) in Ottawa. The...

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PAUL GROSS ANNOUNCED AS KEYNOTE SPEAKER AT CCA 65 TH ANNIVERSARY GALA DINNER

Ottawa, ON (Sep­tem­ber 8, 2010) – The Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) is pleased to announce that acclaimed Cana­dian actor and direc­tor Paul Gross will be the keynote speaker at its 65  anniver­sary gala din­ner. The gala will take place on Novem­ber 1, 2010 at the National Arts Cen­tre (NAC) in Ottawa and will cel­e­brate the CCA’s accom­plish­ments and legacy in Canada’s arts, cul­ture and her­itage sec­tor since its incep­tion in 1945. “We are hon­oured to have Paul Gross deliver the keynote address...

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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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