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Canadian Heritage Minister, the honourable Beverly J. Oda has announced a recurring $30 million dollar increase to the Canada Council for the Arts

CCA Bul­letin 26/07 Ottawa, Tues­day July 24, 2007 Cana­dian Her­itage Min­is­ter, the hon­ourable Bev Oda announced in Toronto on Fri­day, July 20, 2007 that the Canada Coun­cil for the Arts will receive an addi­tional $30 mil­lion annu­ally in fund­ing. This sum will raise the total annual bud­get of the Canada Coun­cil for the Arts to a lit­tle over $180 mil­lion. More­over, the Min­is­ter indi­cated that this announce­ment was meant by the gov­ern­ment to high­light the 50th anniver­sary of the...

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FROM THE DESK of Alain Pineau: CRTC Task Force Report on the Canadian Television Fund crisis: an unconditional capitulation to broadcast distributors

  CCA Bul­letin 25/07 July 19, 2007 The CRTC Task Force on the Cana­dian Tele­vi­sion Fund (CTF) has pub­lished its Report on June 29, just before the long Canada Day week­end and the begin­ning of sum­mer hol­i­days. All inter­ested par­ties have until July 27 to make their views known on the 24 rec­om­men­da­tions of the Task Force, one of which is that these rec­om­men­da­tions  start being imple­mented by the CRTC by Sep­tem­ber 15, in order “to cre­ate a market-oriented pri­vate sec­tor...

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CCA Prepares its 2008-09 Federal Pre-Budget Submission

CCA BULLETIN 24/07 Ottawa, Fri­day, July 12, 2007 Just the Facts The CCA has begun con­sul­ta­tions on the 2008-09 fed­eral pre-budget sub­mis­sion. The Stand­ing Com­mit­tee on Finance has set a dead­line of August 15, 2007 for briefs. This is about one month ear­lier than pre­vi­ous years. They have also asked inter­ven­ers to limit their briefs to five pages. The Stand­ing Com­mit­tee will hold hear­ings on the pre-budget exer­cise in the Fall. The CCA has already made known its inten­tion to appear in...

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The Minister of Finance Replies to the CCA Advantage Canada Brief

CCA Bul­letin 23/07 June 21, 2007 Just the Facts Late last year, the Min­is­ter of Finance released a long-range eco­nomic plan for Canada under the title of Advan­tage Canada. At the same time he called upon inter­ested indi­vid­u­als or orga­ni­za­tions to respond to the doc­u­ment. The CCA accepted this invi­ta­tion and sub­mit­ted a brief which put for­ward many of the same rec­om­men­da­tions included in our 2007-08 pre-budget sub­mis­sion to the Stand­ing Com­mit­tee on Finance. On May 24, 2007...

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FROM THE DESK of Alain Pineau: Investing in Canadian Arts and Culture: Distinguishing “Need” From “Demand”?

CCA Bul­letin 22/07 June 6, 2007 Secur­ing increased and sta­ble fund­ing for the arts and cul­ture sec­tor has been high on the pri­or­ity list of objec­tives for the Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) for decades. As the arts and cul­ture sec­tor cel­e­brates the fifti­eth anniver­sary of the Canada Coun­cil for the Arts, this issue has once again re-emerged as a “top-of-mind” issue.  The infu­sion and dis­tri­b­u­tion of $50 mil­lion dol­lars to the bud­get of the Coun­cil over...

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The Canadian Conference of the Arts (CCA) Releases Its Annual In-Depth Analysis of the Federal Budget re: Arts and Culture Issues

CCA Bul­letin 21/07 June 5, 2007 The Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) is pleased to announce the pub­li­ca­tion of its annual in-depth analy­sis of the fed­eral bud­get related to arts and cul­ture issues.  E-mail us if you would like a copy of this year’s analysis. This doc­u­ment ana­lyzes the Bud­get pre­sented by the Min­is­ter of Finance, the Hon. Jim Fla­herty, on March 19, 2007, by look­ing at fed­eral fund­ing to the Depart­ment of Cana­dian Her­itage (DCH), its agen­cies and crown...

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The CCA looks for government leadership on the issue of federal grants and contributions

  CCA Bul­letin 20/07 Ottawa, May 11, 2007 Of grants and con­tri­bu­tion agree­ments The Canada Coun­cil for the arts launches a con­sul­ta­tion CCA Vice Pres­i­dent honoured The Grants and con­tri­bu­tion agree­ments file The Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) has, for some time now, been mak­ing the case for less oner­ous account­abil­ity require­ments that should be reflec­tive of the amounts of money in ques­tion.  The CCA was pleased to see that the Blue Rib­bon Panel (BRP) on...

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2007–2008 Report on Plans and Priorities (RPP) Provides Further Clues to Federal Government’s Cultural Policy

CCA Bul­letin 19/07 May 8, 2007 In the Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts’ (CCA) first analy­sis of the 2007–2008 fed­eral bud­get we com­mented that there is no obvi­ous, over­ar­ch­ing cul­tural plan or pol­icy the announced expen­di­tures can be linked to.  Try­ing to deter­mine where the Gov­ern­ment may be head­ing with regards to the arts and cul­ture sec­tor requires read­ing into a series of seem­ingly ad-hoc deci­sions and occa­sional pro­nounce­ments, as illus­trated in our...

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First new national museum created outside of National Capital Region

CCA Bul­letin 18/07 May 1, 2007 Just the Facts The Prime Min­is­ter of Canada, the Right Hon­ourable Stephen Harper, was recently in Win­nipeg, Man­i­toba, to announce the des­ig­na­tion of Canada’s newest national museum, the Cana­dian Museum for Human Rights. This project was cham­pi­oned by the late Israel Asper and his fam­ily has con­tin­ued to work for the cre­ation of this insti­tu­tion, which will be sit­u­ated at The Forks in Win­nipeg.  The com­mit­ment of the fed­eral gov­ern­ment...

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Ontario Inches Towards Status of the Artist Policies as the CCA publishes a national “Status of Status” review

April 12, 2007 Just the Facts After over a decade of promises by three con­sec­u­tive gov­ern­ments, the provin­cial gov­ern­ment of Ontario has made some very mod­est pro­pos­als to address sta­tus of the artist issues in the province, join­ing Québec and Saskatchewan as the third provin­cial gov­ern­ment to address sta­tus of the artist issues in leg­is­la­tion or policy Bill 187, An Act respect­ing bud­get mea­sures, interim appro­pri­a­tions and other mat­ters, includes a pro­posal for the...

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