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FROM THE DESK of Alain Pineau: Open Letter to Canadian Political Leaders and Cultural Organization Leaders

CCA Bul­letin 40/08 Octo­ber 2, 2008 For many years Cana­dian cre­ators, artists and arts pro­fes­sion­als have longed to have a national dis­cus­sion on the role and value of the arts and cul­ture sec­tor in our national life. The cur­rent fed­eral elec­tion cam­paign has quite unex­pect­edly pro­vided this opportunity. Unfor­tu­nately, the cur­rent debate has focused on two polar­i­ties, those who see the arts and cul­ture sec­tor as a frill for the elite, and those for whom the pro­grams and ...

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Funding Arts and Culture under Canada’s 39th Parliament

CCA Bul­letin 39/08 Sep­tem­ber 22, 2008 This doc­u­ment looks at the Depart­ment of Cana­dian Heritage’s bud­gets from 2005/06 to 2008/09. It is based on the Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts’ Fed­eral Bud­get Annual Analy­ses for those years. By lin­ing up side by side the fund­ing allo­cated over that period to the Depart­ment of Cana­dian Her­itage, its agen­cies and pro­grams, this analy­sis points to trends in spend­ing dur­ing Canada’s 39th Parliament. The Depart­ment of Cana­dian...

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Federal Election 2008 – What to ask candidates when they solicit your vote? (Part Three)

CCA Bul­letin 38/08 Sep­tem­ber 17, 2008 In order to assist all those who are pre­oc­cu­pied with the place arts and cul­ture in the cur­rent elec­toral cam­paign, the Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) has iden­ti­fied seven broad areas of prime impor­tance for artists, cre­ators, cul­tural insti­tu­tions and indus­tries. The CCA has devel­oped a set of ques­tions for each issue: these ques­tions can be asked to all can­di­dates when they come knock­ing at the door or par­tic­i­pate in an all...

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Federal Election 2008: What to ask candidates when they solicit your vote? (Part Two)

  CCA Bul­letin 37/08 Ottawa, Mon­day, Sep­tem­ber 16, 2008 In order to assist all those who are pre­oc­cu­pied with the place arts and cul­ture occupy in the cur­rent elec­toral cam­paign, the Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) has iden­ti­fied seven broad areas of prime impor­tance for artists, cre­ators, cul­tural insti­tu­tions and indus­tries. The CCA has devel­oped a set of ques­tions for each issue: these ques­tions can be asked to all can­di­dates when they come knock­ing at the door or...

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Federal Election 2008 – What to ask candidates when they solicit your vote? (Part One)

  CCA Bul­letin 36/08 Ottawa, Mon­day, Sep­tem­ber 15, 2008 In order to assist all those who are pre­oc­cu­pied with the place arts and cul­ture occupy in the cur­rent elec­toral cam­paign, the Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) has iden­ti­fied seven broad areas of prime impor­tance for artists, cre­ators, cul­tural insti­tu­tions and indus­tries. The CCA has devel­oped a set of ques­tions for each issue: these ques­tions can be asked to all can­di­dates when they come knock­ing at the door...

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The CCA Hits the Road This Fall: Join the Conversation!

CCA Bul­letin 33/08 Ottawa, Sep­tem­ber 5, 2008   Pre­oc­cu­pa­tions about arts and cul­ture have been very much in the press lately, but one can­not say that they are nor­mally at the top of the pub­lic agenda. The lat­ter has been a pre­oc­cu­pa­tion of the CCA for quite some time and this is why, over the past six months, we have been work­ing here at the Sec­re­tariat on plan­ning a series of four­teen regional forums which will allow me to meet with mem­bers of the cul­tural sec­tor and other...

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More Budget Cuts to Culture and some news from the CCA

CCA Bul­letin 32/08 Ottawa, Sep­tem­ber 2, 2008 New cuts to fed­eral pro­grams for arts and cul­ture have sur­faced just before the long Labour Day week­end. It has been con­firmed that the gov­ern­ment has put an end to the Canada New Media Fund designed to fur­ther the devel­op­ment, pro­duc­tion, and marketing/ dis­tri­b­u­tion of high-quality, orig­i­nal, inter­ac­tive or on-line Cana­dian cul­tural new media works, in both offi­cial lan­guages, at home and abroad. The New Media Fund was a decade-old...

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Heritage Spending Cuts Part Two: An Ongoing Saga?

CCA Bul­letin 29/08 Ottawa, Mon­day, August 26, 2008   Just the Facts Over the course of the past sev­eral weeks, the Depart­ment of Cana­dian Her­itage has been qui­etly announc­ing the reduc­tion or elim­i­na­tion of fund­ing pro­grams and other ser­vices of impor­tance to the arts and cul­ture sec­tor. To date, over $ 42 mil­lion of pro­gram and ser­vice cuts have been made by the Depart­ment and redi­rected to other government’s pri­or­i­ties, like the 2010 Olympic Torch Relay. To these cuts, one must...

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Revenue Canada’s Rules for Fundraising by Registered Charities: the CCA Raises a Red Flag

CCA Bul­letin 30/08 Ottawa, Mon­day, August 26, 2008     Just the Facts As reported in CCA Bul­letin 28/08, the Canada Rev­enue Agency is seek­ing com­ments on the new draft pol­icy for fundrais­ing activ­i­ties by reg­is­tered char­i­ties and set a dead­line of August 31 for inter­ested par­ties to react. The Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) has inter­vened today endors­ing  the posi­tions taken by Imag­ine Canada on this issue, but also rais­ing con­cerns about the inclu­sion of the phrase...

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Cultural Spending Cuts Part One: Trade Routes and PromArt Cuts in Context

  CCA Bul­letin 27/08 August 25, 2008   While many of us were enjoy­ing the sum­mer, the fed­eral gov­ern­ment has announced a series of cuts of around $40 mil­lion to cul­tural pro­grams and the elim­i­na­tion of oth­ers. Today, the CCA is pub­lish­ing a com­pre­hen­sive list of the pro­grams that are affected by those cuts and we will be pro­vid­ing fur­ther infor­ma­tion on these mea­sures in the next few days. Today, the focus will be on the elim­i­na­tion of the Pro­mArt pro­gram at the...

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