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Arts Education and the CCA

CCA Bul­letin 23/10   August 31, 2010   Just the Facts As edu­ca­tional insti­tu­tions across the coun­try rev up their pro­grams for the fall semes­ter, many arts edu­ca­tors, prac­ti­tion­ers and patrons wait with bated breath to see how enrol­ments will fare. Pro­grams in arts edu­ca­tion are as diverse as the coun­try itself. They offer a plethora of essen­tial learn­ing out­comes includ­ing cre­ative devel­op­ment, self expres­sion, aes­thet­ics and bol­ster­ing self-determination. Cre­ative...

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The Canadian Conference of the Arts Launches New Cultural Forum Series

Ottawa, ON (August 25, 2010) –The Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) is pleased to announce the launch of Think­ing Cul­ture, a new forum series focused on arts, cul­ture and her­itage issues. Pre­sented in part­ner­ship with the Uni­ver­sity of Ottawa’s Cen­tre for Con­tin­u­ing Edu­ca­tion, Cen­tre on Gov­er­nance and School of Polit­i­cal Stud­ies, the forums will explore the com­plex­i­ties of cul­ture in Canada and abroad and how it con­tin­ues to affect society. This series will pro­vide...

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Remuneration for charity staff: the CCA joins chorus of concern over Bill C-470

CCA Bul­letin 22/10 August 23, 2010   Just the Facts As reported in CCA Bul­letin 16/10, Bill C-470 passed sec­ond read­ing in the House of Com­mons in April and is now on its way to hear­ings by the Stand­ing Com­mit­tee on Finance. Intro­duced by the Hon. Albina Guarnieri, Lib­eral MP for Mis­sis­sauga East – Cooksville, this bill would allow the Min­is­ter of National Rev­enue to dereg­is­ter any char­i­ta­ble orga­ni­za­tion, pub­lic foun­da­tion or pri­vate foun­da­tion that paid any employee...

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CCA urges the government to keep investing in arts and culture beyond Canada’s Economic Action Plan

CCA Bul­letin 21/10 August 16, 2010     Just the Facts On Fri­day August 13, the Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) sub­mit­ted its pre-budget brief for 2011 to the House of Com­mons Stand­ing Com­mit­tee on Finance. In it, the CCA frames the man­ner in which the fed­eral gov­ern­ment should invest in arts and cul­ture, and empha­sizes the need for the gov­ern­ment to con­tinue its com­mit­ment of sta­ble fund­ing for arts and cul­ture as we come to the end of Canada’s Eco­nomic Action Plan. The CCA...

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The Long-Form Census Controversy and the Arts

CCA Bul­letin 20/10 July 20, 2010   Just the Facts On June 26, as Cana­di­ans were focused on the G-8 and G-20 meet­ings in Toronto, the gov­ern­ment dis­cretely announced its deci­sion that the long-form cen­sus would no longer be com­pul­sory. The cen­sus, which is sent every five years by Sta­tis­tics Canada to a fifth of Cana­dian house­holds, would be replaced by a vol­un­tary sur­vey of a full third of Cana­dian house­holds. The short ver­sion of the national cen­sus, which con­tains only eight ...

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What are the Department of Canadian Heritage’s Priorities for 2010-11?

CCA Bul­letin 19/10 July 19, 2010     The Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) is still work­ing on its detailed Analy­sis of the 2010 Fed­eral Bud­get, which is delayed as we wait for answers from the gov­ern­ment on a num­ber of issues. As part of its Bud­get Analy­sis on arts, cul­ture and her­itage, the CCA exam­ines the Depart­ment of Cana­dian Heritage’s Report on Plans and Pri­or­i­ties pub­lished in the spring. This doc­u­ment is the expen­di­ture plan for the Depart­ment. It pro­vides...

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Arts, Culture and a National Digital Strategy

CCA Bul­letin 18/10 July 12, 2010   Just the facts In a brief filed as part of the nation-wide con­sul­ta­tion launched last May, the Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) urges the gov­ern­ment to make con­tent cre­ation a cen­tre­piece of the national strat­egy for the dig­i­tal econ­omy. The con­sul­ta­tion, which was due to end on July 9, has been extended to July 13, midnight. The CCA’s fun­da­men­tal approach to a national strat­egy is based on the belief that infra­struc­ture, wires, ...

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Canadian Conference of the Arts Announces Details for National Policy Conference

Ottawa, ON (June 29, 2010) – The Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) has announced details for its upcom­ing National Pol­icy Con­fer­ence, Artists: Pow­er­ing the Cre­ative Econ­omy?, tak­ing place Novem­ber 1–3, 2010 at the National Arts Cen­tre in Ottawa. The con­fer­ence will fea­ture pan­els, pre­sen­ta­tions and white­board ses­sions explor­ing poli­cies and issues affect­ing the arts, cul­ture and her­itage sec­tor within the cre­ative econ­omy. As Canada and other coun­tries move towards an...

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FROM THE DESK of Alain Pineau: CCA’s Year in Review

CCA Bul­letin 17/10   June 25, 2010 The House has adjourned, the weather is warm and muggy and the earth has shaken in Ottawa. It’s now late June and after our wrap-up of the par­lia­men­tary ses­sion, it is time to review what the CCA has accom­plished over the past year. The CCA’s accom­plish­ments were dis­cussed last week in Ottawa dur­ing its annual gen­eral meet­ing and dur­ing a board meet­ing.  While the board meet­ing was occu­pied in good part by dis­cus­sions on impor­tant pol­icy issues like...

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The House of Commons is off for the summer

CCA Bul­letin 16/10   June 22, 2010       Just the Facts Last week, mem­bers of the House of Com­mons left the Hill for the sum­mer, with MPs return­ing to their rid­ings to mull over the work ahead in the fall. Mean­while, the Sen­ate is still try­ing to deal with the mas­sive omnibus bud­get bill, C-9. Mem­bers of its Finance Com­mit­tee are say­ing that they will stay as long as it takes to get through the 904 page document. So, from the arts and cul­ture per­spec­tive, what has been accom­plished in the...

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