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The Economic Meltdown: Arts Organizations Feel the Heat and Finance Minister Flaherty Seeks Ideas for Economic Stimulation

  CCA Bul­letin 49/08   Novem­ber 25, 2008 Just the Facts As bad news on the econ­omy keeps rolling in, arts orga­ni­za­tions and insti­tu­tions are begin­ning to feel the pinch as endow­ments are fail­ing to gen­er­ate income. Endow­ment funds have been pro­moted by the fed­eral and some provin­cial gov­ern­ments as a pru­dent way to build finan­cial secu­rity and pro­mote longer-term plan­ning. In Saturday’s edi­tion of the Globe and Mail, jour­nal­ist James Brad­shaw fea­tured an...

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They’re Baaaaaack ! Canada’s 40th Parliament Gets To Work

CCA Bul­letin 48/08 Novem­ber 20, 2008 Just the Facts On Novem­ber 18, Canada’s 40th Par­lia­ment began its work with the re-election of Speaker of the House, Hon. Peter Mil­liken. Novem­ber 19th saw the Gov­er­nor Gen­eral lay out the plans of the gov­ern­ment in the Speech from the Throne deliv­ered in the Sen­ate chambers. There are a few ele­ments which are of spe­cific inter­est to the arts and cul­ture sector. “Cul­tural cre­ativ­ity and inno­va­tion are vital not only to a lively Cana­dian...

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Statistics Canada Releases Data on Government Expenditures on Culture for 2004/2006

CCA Bul­letin 47/08 Novem­ber 13, 2008 Just the Facts Sta­tis­tics Canada has released new data on gov­ern­ment expen­di­tures on cul­ture for the fis­cal years 2004/05 and 2005/06. These data show that over the two years, provin­cial and ter­ri­to­r­ial government’s invest­ments in arts and cul­ture increased by $ 160 mil­lion, while the fed­eral government’s over­all con­tri­bu­tion decreased by $ 50 million. Over­all fed­eral spend­ing for 2005/06 was $ 3.55 bil­lion, down from spend­ing in...

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The CCA and Freedom of Expression – The Endless Battle

  CCA Bul­letin 46/08 Novem­ber 3, 2008 Paper pre­sented at the Pub­lic Issues Com­mu­nity Forum Uni­ver­sity of Vic­to­ria, Octo­ber 23, 2008 “The free com­mu­ni­ca­tion of thought and opin­ion is one of the most pre­cious rights of man; every cit­i­zen may there­fore speak, write and print freely.” French National Assem­bly, 1789 Free­dom of expres­sion is one of the hall­marks of a truly demo­c­ra­tic soci­ety. In Canada, as in other nations around the world, this free­dom is enshrined...

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Prime Minister Harper’s New Cabinet: New Faces and Roles

CCA Bul­letin 45/08 Octo­ber 30th, 2008 Just the Facts This morn­ing, the Gov­er­nor Gen­eral of Canada, the Right Hon. Michaëlle Jean, presided over the swear­ing in of Canada’s new Cab­i­net. The Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) would like to take this oppor­tu­nity to wel­come the new Min­is­ter of Cana­dian Her­itage and Offi­cial Lan­guages, the Hon. James Moore. The CCA looks for­ward to work­ing with the Min­is­ter and Depart­ment of Cana­dian Her­itage to encour­age a promi­nent...

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CCA applauds CRTC’s decision to support Canada’s cultural sector

Ottawa, ON (Octo­ber 30, 2008) — The CRTC’s deci­sion to sup­port local Cana­dian pro­gram­ming clearly meets the require­ments of Canada’s broad­cast­ing leg­is­la­tion and Cana­di­ans’ desire, for more and better-funded Cana­dian pro­gram­ming, says Canada’s old­est and largest arts advo­cacy and cul­tural pol­icy devel­op­ment orga­ni­za­tion, the Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA). “By strength­en­ing cable and satel­lite com­pa­nies’ finan­cial com­mit­ments to Cana­dian...

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The Votes are In: CCA Getting Ready for the 40th Parliament!

  CCA Bul­letin 44/08 Octo­ber 15, 2008 Just the Facts Cana­di­ans have spo­ken and now all atten­tion turns to the busi­ness of the 40th Par­lia­ment and the renewed minor­ity man­date of the Con­ser­v­a­tive Party of Canada. The Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) con­grat­u­lates all those who ran as can­di­dates in the gen­eral elec­tion, whether they were suc­cess­ful or not. Their con­vic­tion to serve Canada is some­thing that we can all appre­ci­ate and is the very heart of...

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FROM THE DESK of Alain Pineau – The CCA enters the Blogosphere!

CCA Bul­letin 43/08 Octo­ber 10, 2008 Thanks to a set of cir­cum­stances which nobody could have fore­seen, arts and cul­ture have occu­pied with politi­cians and jour­nal­ists a most unusual place in the course of the fed­eral elec­tion cam­paign. The ques­tion is: what will hap­pen on the day after the election? Sev­eral months ago, the CCA had cho­sen the theme of its March 2009 National Pol­icy Con­fer­ence and of the series of Regional Forums which will pre­cede it: how can we best work together to...

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CCA Research Report: The Effects of Administrative Reforms on the Activities of Advocacy Groups

CCA Bul­letin 42/08  Octo­ber 9, 2008 Just the facts In prepa­ra­tion for the con­sul­ta­tions it has orga­nized over the com­ing two months in 14 cities through­out Canada, lead­ing to the March 11–12, 2009 National Pol­icy Con­fer­ence in Ottawa, the Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) has com­mis­sioned research papers to pro­vide a com­mon back­ground for the dis­cus­sions with its mem­bers and other stake­hold­ers inter­ested in art and cul­ture in the country. We are pleased to...

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Making a Single Case for the Arts: An International Perspective

Exec­u­tive summary   In Canada, the cul­tural sec­tor is diver­si­fied and rather frag­mented and, for a vari­ety of rea­sons, it has been impos­si­ble so far to artic­u­late a coher­ent cul­tural pol­icy at the national level. There was a time when the Cana­dian Con­fer­ence for the Arts was the sin­gle, over­ar­ch­ing orga­ni­za­tion rep­re­sent­ing the inter­ests of all artis­tic dis­ci­plines in all regions. Nowa­days, pro­fes­sional, discipline-specific orga­ni­za­tions have devel­oped to...

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