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Speech from the Throne: A Stronger Canada. A Stronger Economy. How it Affects Arts & Culture

CCA Bul­letin 6/10 March 3, 2010   Just the Facts After a two month long pro­ro­ga­tion the Gov­er­nor Gen­eral of Canada, the Rt. Hon. Michaëlle Jean, deliv­ered the Speech from the Throne, open­ing the third ses­sion of Canada’s 40th Par­lia­ment. For a sec­ond time in as many Speeches, the gov­ern­ment focused on Canada’s econ­omy. How­ever, this time, the gov­ern­ment moved away from lay­ing out stim­u­lus plans, and moved towards address­ing deficit reduc­tion, while pro­mot­ing the achieve­ments...

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Is a Change in Foreign Ownership Rules for Cultural Industries on the Horizon?

CCA Bul­letin 5/10 Feb­ru­ary 9, 2010   Just the facts On 10 Decem­ber 2009, the fed­eral Cab­i­net over­turned a CRTC deci­sion find­ing that Glob­alive Wire­less Man­age­ment Cor­po­ra­tion was inel­i­gi­ble to oper­ate a wire­less tele­phone ser­vice in Canada because it is con­trolled by a for­eign com­pany, Oras­com.  Within days, Wind Mobile, Globalive’s sub­sidiary, began to offer mobile phone ser­vices in Toronto and Calgary. This is an extremely impor­tant deci­sion which...

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The rules of the new Canada Periodical Fund: The impact on arts and culture magazines

CCA Bul­letin 4/10 Jan­u­ary 28, 2010   Just the Facts On Wednes­day Jan­u­ary 20, 2010, the Hon. James Moore, Min­is­ter of Cana­dian Her­itage announced that the cri­te­ria for receiv­ing fund­ing from the Canada Peri­od­i­cal Fund (CPF) will dif­fer from the pre­vi­ous Cana­dian Mag­a­zine Fund (CMF) and the Pub­li­ca­tions Assis­tance Pro­gram (PAP. also known as the “postal sub­sidy”), which it is replac­ing as of April 1, 2010. The CPF pro­vides finan­cial assis­tance to the Cana­dian...

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FROM THE DESK of Alain Pineau: CCA talks culture to the Federal Liberal caucus

CCA Bul­letin 3/10 Jan­u­ary 22, 2010   On Jan­u­ary 19, the Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA)  was part of a panel of experts address­ing the Lib­eral Party of Canada’s Cau­cus held on Par­lia­ment Hill. I had the priv­i­lege of hear­ing pre­sen­ta­tions by Anne Golden, Pres­i­dent and CEO, Con­fer­ence Board of Canada, Sherri Tor­j­man, VP, Cale­don Insti­tute of Social Pol­icy, and C. Scott Clark, a for­mer civil ser­vant with a 20 year career in the Depart­ment of Finance as...

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FROM THE DESK of Alain Pineau: CCA call for Award Nominations

CCA Bul­letin 2/10 Jan­u­ary 11, 2010   The Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) is call­ing on its mem­bers to present nom­i­na­tions for its 2009 National Arts Awards. The CCA Awards are pre­sented annu­ally to mem­bers of Canada’s cul­tural com­mu­nity who have made sig­nif­i­cant con­tri­bu­tions to the spirit and vital­ity of the arts and cul­ture in this country. With so many wor­thy indi­vid­u­als nation­wide, we encour­age all CCA mem­bers to put forth nom­i­nees. Nom­i­na­tion...

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Parliament’s Prorogation: What does it mean for the arts and culture sector?

  CCA Bul­letin 1/10 Jan­u­ary 6, 2010   Just the facts On Decem­ber 30, 2009, the Gov­er­nor Gen­eral of Canada approved a pro­ro­ga­tion which put an end to the sec­ond ses­sion of Canada’s 40th Par­lia­ment.  The Par­lia­ment of Canada will be sus­pended until its return on March 3, 2010 when the Speech from the Throne will be given, fol­lowed the next day by the pre­sen­ta­tion of the 2010 fed­eral budget. This is the sec­ond such pro­ro­ga­tion under the 40th Par­lia­ment: just a year ago, the...

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Musical Diversity Funding: a pre-Holiday Discordant Report

CCA Bul­letin 30/09 Decem­ber 14, 2009 Just the facts On Decem­ber 9, the Stand­ing Com­mit­tee on Her­itage pre­sented its report on the three hear­ings on the abo­li­tion of the Musi­cal Diver­sity Pro­grams ($ 1.3m) admin­is­tered by the Canada  Coun­cil of the Arts on behalf of the Depart­ment of Cana­dian Heritage. The pro­grams abol­ished tar­geted the record­ing and dis­tri­b­u­tion of so-called “spe­cial­ized” music, i.e. “music whose intent or con­tent is not shaped by the desire for...

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2010 Pre-budget Consultations Report: Arts and Culture pushed to the back burner once again!

CCA Bul­letin 29/09 Decem­ber 11, 2009       Just the Facts On Decem­ber 9, the Stand­ing Com­mit­tee on Finance pre­sented to the House of Com­mons its Report on the 2010 pre-budget con­sul­ta­tions titled A pros­per­ous and sus­tain­able future for Canada: needed fed­eral actions. Over 400 orga­ni­za­tions appeared in front of the Com­mit­tee in hear­ings held across the coun­try over the past three months, at a cost of “half a mil­lion dol­lars to tax­pay­ers”, accord­ing to the Lib­er­als....

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FROM THE DESK of Alain Pineau: Update on CCA Activities

CCA Bul­letin 28/09 Decem­ber 1, 2009   The past sev­eral weeks have been quite busy here at the Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) and it is about time I bring you up to date on what has been going on, par­tic­u­larly on the advo­cacy front. In this bul­letin, I will dis­cuss the following: CCA’s pre­sen­ta­tion to the newly formed all-party Arts Caucus; CCA‘s quest for reli­able and timely cul­tural statistics; CCA’s call on the CRTC to ensure Cana­di­ans have access to qual­ity Cana­dian...

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CCA urges CRTC to regulate cable and satellite rates

CCA Bul­letin 27/09 Novem­ber 3, 2009   Just the Facts The fed­eral gov­ern­ment has recently instructed the CRTC to hold a pub­lic hear­ing to ask the assess the impact on con­sumers of com­pen­sat­ing over-the-air tele­vi­sion broad­cast­ers – such as CTV, Global and CBC – for the dis­tri­b­u­tion of  their sig­nals by the cable and satel­lite indus­try. This is an impor­tant issue indeed because, as the Order in Coun­cil (OIC) points out, the vast major­ity of Cana­di­ans receive their...

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