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“Contrary to Public Policy”: from Bill C-10 to Revenue Canada’s Rules for Fundraising by Registered Charities

CCA Bul­letin 28/08 Ottawa, Mon­day, August 25, 2008   Just the Facts After promis­ing it for sev­eral months, Canada Rev­enue Agency dis­cretely posted on its website at the end of June draft new rules for reg­is­tered char­i­ties and set a dead­line of August 31 for inter­ested par­ties to react.  The con­sul­ta­tion focuses on new pol­icy on fundrais­ing activ­i­ties by all reg­is­tered charities. The doc­u­ment pro­vides a frame­work explain­ing how to dis­tin­guish between fundrais­ing and other ...

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Canadian Television Fund: the CCA opposes the CRTC’s main recommendations

  CCA Bul­letin 26/08 July 31, 2008     Just the facts The Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) has writ­ten to the Min­is­ter of Cana­dian Her­itage, the Hon. Josée Verner, to oppose strongly to the Min­is­ter of Cana­dian Her­itage, the Hon. Josée Verner, to oppose strongly the main rec­om­men­da­tions of the report that the Cana­dian Radio-television and Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Com­mis­sion (CRTC) pre­sented to her in June con­cern­ing the future of the Cana­dian Tele­vi­sion Fund (CTF)....

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Copyright Reform: from balancing competing interest to establishing a market-place approach to rights?

  CCA Bul­letin 25/08 July 22, 2008 Just the Facts The least one can say is that the long-awaited tabling of Bill C-61 in June by the Min­is­ter of Indus­try, the Hon. Jim Pren­tice and the Min­is­ter of Cana­dian Her­itage, the Hon. Josée Verner has been greeted with mixed reviews.  There are those who sup­port the pro­posed revi­sions and oth­ers who sug­gest that many of the mea­sures in the bill are unen­force­able. Recent crit­i­cisms even denounce Bill C-61 as detri­men­tal to the envi­ron­ment...

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The CCA Publishes its Annual Analysis of the Federal Budget

CCA Bul­letin 24/08 July 17, 2008   Main find­ings The CCA pub­lishes today its 2008 Bud­get Analy­sis in which it exam­ines fed­eral fund­ing from 2007/08 to 2008/09 to the Depart­ment of Cana­dian Her­itage (DCH), cul­tural agen­cies and crown corporations. After almost three years, it is still dif­fi­cult to estab­lish what posi­tion the gov­ern­ment may take towards cul­ture as sig­nif­i­cant fund­ing reduc­tions might be forth­com­ing given the known gov­ern­ment pri­or­i­ties, the down­turn...

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Summer Means… 2009-10 Federal Budget Consultations!

CCA Bul­letin 23/08 July 10, 2008 Just the Facts The Stand­ing Com­mit­tee on Finance has announced it is receiv­ing sub­mis­sions for the 2009-10 fed­eral bud­get con­sul­ta­tions. This is an oppor­tu­nity for the pub­lic to put for­ward rec­om­men­da­tions and other ideas about what the 2009-10 fed­eral bud­get should contain. The CCA will be releas­ing in a few days its com­pre­hen­sive Analy­sis of the 2008-09 Fed­eral Bud­get, which should help orga­ni­za­tions and indi­vid­u­als in...

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“Compete to Win”– Competition Policy Review Panel Tables Final Report

CCA Bul­letin 22/08 Ottawa, Thurs­day, July 3, 2008 Just the facts On June 26, 2008, the Com­pe­ti­tion Pol­icy Review Panel tabled its final report enti­tled “Com­pete to Win”. In July 2007, then Min­is­ter of Indus­try Maxime Bernier had given the Panel the mandate “…to make rec­om­men­da­tions to the gov­ern­ment on ways to estab­lish the domes­tic con­di­tions that both encour­age Cana­dian firms to be active and aggres­sive investors at home and abroad, and max­i­mize Canada’s...

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Bill C-10 – Could the Liberal Senator’s Amendments trigger an election?

CCA Bul­letin 21/08 June 23, 2008 Just the Facts For months now, the Stand­ing Sen­ate Com­mit­tee on Bank­ing, Trade and Com­merce has been hear­ing wit­nesses pre­oc­cu­pied with sec­tion 120, (3) of Bill C-10 . While other sec­tions of this mam­moth omnibus Act have also raised con­cerned from var­i­ous quar­ters, it is this short sec­tion of the 568 page doc­u­ment that has caused the most tur­moil, as it per­tains to give to the Min­is­ter of Her­itage the author­ity to refuse to issue tax...

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Bill C-61 — The Devil is in the Details: Revisions to the Copyright Act Finally Unveiled

  CCA Bul­letin 20/08 June 20 , 2008 Back­ground On June 12, 2008, the Min­is­ter of Indus­try, the Hon Jim Pren­tice and the Min­is­ter of Cana­dian Her­itage, the Hon. Josée Verner, tabled pro­posed revi­sions to the Cana­dian Copy­right Act. Bill C-61 is the first major revi­sion to the Copy­right Act since the ‘90s. The moti­va­tion for reform comes from two sources,   Canada signed onto a World Intel­lec­tual Prop­erty Orga­ni­za­tion inter­net treaties and has not fully imple­mented the...

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CCA Annual General Meeting Ushers in New Board Members and Bylaw Changes

CCA Bul­letin 19/08 June 18 , 2008     Just the Facts The Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts held its annual gen­eral meet­ing at the Ontario Col­lege of Art and Design on June 12, 2008. The Pres­i­dent of the CCA, Robert Spick­ler and the National Direc­tor, Alain Pineau also gave their reports on the state of the CCA. Mem­bers greeted the news that through strict man­age­ment of resources, the CCA had man­age to expunge its accu­mu­lated deficit and had recorded a mod­est sur­plus for the 2007-08...

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The Federal Action Plan on Grants and Contributions Unveiled

  CCA Bul­letin 18/08 June 6 , 2008     Just the Facts On May 27, 2008, the Pres­i­dent of the Trea­sury Board of Canada, the Hon. Vic Toews, out­lined at the Vol­un­tary Sec­tor Sum­mit in Toronto the Action Plan of the fed­eral gov­ern­ment to improve the man­age­ment of grants and contributions. The action plan is the government’s response to the Report of the Blue Rib­bon Panel on Grants and Con­tri­bu­tions deliv­ered to the gov­ern­ment on Feb­ru­ary 14, 2007. The Report reached three...

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