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Canada seeks key role in the implementation of UNESCO Cultural Diversity Convention

  CCA Bul­letin 16/07 April 10 2007 Just the facts As announced in the CCA’s Jan­u­ary 24 Bul­letin, the UNESCO Con­ven­tion on the pro­tec­tion and pro­mo­tion of the diver­sity of cul­tural expres­sions has come into force on March 18, 2007. Devel­op­ments in this file con­tinue to occur rapidly and inter­na­tional sup­port for this impor­tant treaty is grow­ing. Fifty-six coun­tries are now par­ties to the Con­ven­tion and more are expected to join in the com­ing months. In express­ing...

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Disappointments Continue for Canada’s Museums

CCA Bul­letin 15/07 April 3, 2007 Just the facts For over a year now the Cana­dian muse­ums sec­tor has been hop­ing that the Min­is­ter of Cana­dian Her­itage, the Hon. Bev Oda, would finally deliver a new national muse­ums pol­icy, which she sup­ported so heart­edly when she was the Con­ser­v­a­tive Party’s Her­itage critic while in opposition. After the ini­tial dis­ap­point­ment of see­ing noth­ing reflected in the first May 2, 2006 fed­eral bud­get of the “new” Gov­ern­ment of Canada,...

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Update on the Canadian Television Fund (CTF)

CCA Bul­letin 14/07 April 2, 2007 Just the facts… Whereas lengthy and open pub­lic processes have char­ac­ter­ized the CRTC’s review of its com­mer­cial radio and over-the-air tele­vi­sion poli­cies, the exam­i­na­tion of the Cana­dian Tele­vi­sion Fund (CTF) cri­sis has left the pub­lic arena pro­vided by the Par­lia­men­tary Stand­ing Com­mit­tee on Her­itage and moved behind closed doors, with the promise of maybe a pub­lic hear­ing at the end of the process. On Feb­ru­ary 20, 2007 the CRTC...

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CCA Presentation to the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage for its CBC Mandate Review

  CCA Bul­letin 13/07 March 26, 2007 The CCA has tabled a brief to the Stand­ing Com­mit­tee on Cana­dian Her­itage for its cur­rent review of the man­date of the CBC.  The CCA will appear in front of the Com­mit­tee on Tues­day March 27. While the CCA wel­comes the oppor­tu­nity of this pub­lic debate about the man­date of the CBC/SRC in the 21st cen­tury, we must point to the fact that what is required is a full-picture exam­i­na­tion of Cana­dian Broadcasting’s “eco­log­i­cal sys­tem” and...

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Deconstructing the Federal Budget 2007 from a cultural point of view

CCA Bul­letin 12/07 March 22, 2007 A sec­ond look at Monday’s budget For the past two days, since Bud­get Day in the House of Com­mons, the CCA has been look­ing at the Government’s Main Esti­mates for 2007-08. The Main Esti­mates are the pro­jected spend­ing of the fed­eral gov­ern­ment in all gov­ern­ment depart­ments and agen­cies for any given fis­cal year. This is where the Bud­get starts to make con­crete sense and where close scrutiny reveals whether the money announced is new or not or whether...

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Federal Budget 2007 falls well short of adopting CCA’s “Creative New Way of Thinking”

CCA Bul­letin 11/07 March 19, 2007 The Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA), the largest national forum for the arts and cul­ture sec­tor in Canada, greets today’s 2007 bud­get announce­ment by the Min­is­ter of Finance, the Hon. Jim Fla­herty, with some mea­sure of disappointment. “It is unfor­tu­nate that the Gov­ern­ment did not seize this impor­tant oppor­tu­nity to artic­u­late a long-term vision for the arts and cul­ture sec­tor in Canada.  This is an encour­ag­ing fed­eral bud­get, but not...

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FROM THE DESK of Alain Pineau: CCA Intervention on Proposed “Code of Conduct for Procurement”, plus Important Announcements

CCA Bul­letin 10/07 March 13, 2007 Job oppor­tu­nity: the CCA is look­ing for a pol­icy advisor Nom­i­na­tion Dead­line for the 2007 Gov­er­nor General’s Per­form­ing Arts Awards Extended until March 30th “Les États généraux des arts et de la cul­ture” in Cara­quet, NB May 2–6 2007 IETM Ple­nary Meet­ing 30 May-3 June 2007 in Montreal Fur­ther to the pre­vi­ous Bul­letin 08/07, the Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) recently sent a let­ter to the Hon. Michael Fortier, Min­is­ter of...

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Report on CCA Policy and Advocacy 2006-07 Priorities and publication of the 2007-08 priorities

  CCA Bul­letin 09/07 Ottawa, Fri­day, March 9, 2007 Just the Facts… As the Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts looks back at its National Pol­icy Con­fer­ence held just one year ago in early March 2006, this exer­cise pro­vides us with the oppor­tu­nity to report on the progress the orga­ni­za­tion has achieved in deal­ing with the pri­or­i­ties that con­fer­ence del­e­gates rec­om­mended to the CCA Board of Governors: increased and sta­ble fund­ing for the arts and cul­ture sector, equity for...

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Federal Government Seeks Input on a Code of Conduct for Procurement, plus Important Announcements

  CCA Bul­letin 08/07 Ottawa, Thurs­day, Feb­ru­ary 22, 2007 Fed­eral Gov­ern­ment Seeks Input on a Code of Con­duct for Procurement Delays on the Fed­eral Account­abil­ity Act unac­counted for Update on the CCA Cul­tural Pol­icy Mandate A New Plan­ning Tool for arts, cul­tural and her­itage organizations Fed­eral Code of Con­duct for Procurement On Feb­ru­ary 9 2007, the Hon. Michael Fortier, Min­is­ter of Pub­lic Works and Gov­ern­ment Ser­vices Canada, announced that the fed­eral...

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The CCA Applauds the Blue Ribbon Panel’s Report on Grants and Contributions

CCA Bul­letin 06/07 Ottawa, Mon­day, Feb­ru­ary 19, 2007 Dear reg­u­lar CCA Bul­letin reader – Please note that in the next two weeks we are antic­i­pat­ing an unusu­ally heavy cycle of bul­letin com­mu­ni­ca­tions ema­nat­ing from our Ottawa bureau.   So, please keep your eyes peeled on your inbox for devel­op­ments regard­ing our activ­i­ties and the won­der­ful world of Cana­dian fed­eral cul­tural policy! Just the Facts The Blue Rib­bon Panel on Grants and Con­tri­bu­tions has finally released...

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