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FROM THE DESK of Alain Pineau: A bit of this, a bit of that…

CCA Bul­letin 05/07 Ottawa, Fri­day, Feb­ru­ary 16, 2007 CCA 2007 Awards Reminder: Call for Nom­i­na­tions Cuts to Pub­lic Diplo­macy Pro­gram: a clarification A last minute Online Pre-Budget 2007! Elec­tion readi­ness: CCA writes to the 5 Major Fed­eral Polit­i­cal Parties As awards sea­son heats up in Canada, with the Junos and the Jutras fast approach­ing, the Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) would like to remind mem­bers to give seri­ous con­sid­er­a­tion to pre­sent­ing nom­i­nees...

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Mid-Winter Update from Parliament Hill

  CCA Bul­letin 04/07 Ottawa, Wednes­day, Feb­ru­ary 7, 2007 CBC Man­date Review Changes within the Stand­ing Com­mit­tee on Cana­dian Heritage Cana­dian Tele­vi­sion Fund cri­sis and other issues The Canada Coun­cil for the Arts launches spe­cial 50th anniver­sary website The House of Com­mons resumed sit­ting last Mon­day, Jan­u­ary 29 th, mark­ing the...

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Dispute Erupts over the Canadian Television Fund (CTF)

CCA Bul­letin 03/07 Jan­u­ary 30, 2007 Just the Facts Some of Canada’s largest cable firms have decided that they will no longer be con­trib­u­tors to the Cana­dian Tele­vi­sion Fund (CTF). In a series of state­ments from Shaw Com­mu­ni­ca­tions and Videotron, these cable com­pa­nies have said that they can no longer jus­tify the con­tri­bu­tions that they make to the fund while the CBC...

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UNESCO Cultural Diversity Convention set to be implemented

  CCA Bul­letin 02/07 Jan­u­ary 24 2007 Just the facts The UNESCO Con­ven­tion on the pro­tec­tion and pro­mo­tion of the diver­sity of cul­tural expres­sions will come into force on March 18, 2007. This is the lat­est stage in a remark­able cam­paign and process in which the Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) has been an impor­tant player. The CCA cel­e­brates ...

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FROM THE DESK of Alain Pineau: Taking Stock of the Renewed CCA

  CCA Bul­letin 01/07 Jan­u­ary 10, 2007 As I start my sec­ond year at the helm of the Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA), I would like to take a moment to review with you what we have accom­plished over the past year… and what a very busy and chal­leng­ing year 2006 turned out to be! The main objec­tive of the CCA’s Board and Sec­re­tariat over 2006 was to refo­cus on the core mis­sion of the orga­ni­za­tion, as decided by the Board at its meet­ings in Sep­tem­ber 2005. This refo­cussing, ...

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Wrapping up 2006: Useful Information on “Odds & Ends”

CCA Bul­letin 54/06 Ottawa, Decem­ber 21, 2006 This CCA Bul­letin, our last one for 2006, con­tains use­ful infor­ma­tion about: Self-employed sta­tus: CCA’s let­ter of clar­i­fi­ca­tion to the Stand­ing Com­mit­tee on Finance The Canada Coun­cil for the Arts’ new “50 for 50″ Arts Challenge Arts Fund­ing: record dona­tions by indi­vid­u­als to cul­tural orga­ni­za­tions ...

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The CRTC and Canadian Cultural Content

CCA Bul­letin 53/06 Ottawa, Decem­ber 20, 2006 •  The satel­lite radio re-distribution decision •  The new Com­mer­cial Radio Policy •  The Over the Air Tele­vi­sion Pol­icy hearings •  New Media: the deci­sion to take no decision.again! Just the facts. The pro­duc­tion and...

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Accountability Act passes into law and the CCA weighs in on “Advantage Canada”

CCA Bul­letin 52/06 Decem­ber 14, 2006 Just the Facts Her Excel­lency Michaëlle Jean gave Royal Assent to Bill C-2, known pop­u­larly as the “Fed­eral Account­abil­ity Act” (FAA), on Decem­ber 12, 2006.  The leg­is­la­tion is now law and the next step of the process is the devel­op­ment of the reg­u­la­tions that will guide how the Act is interpreted. In our June 28 let­ter to the Sen­ate and sub­se­quent Octo­ber 4 pre­sen­ta­tion to the Stand­ing Sen­ate Com­mit­tee on Legal and...

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House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance Releases Report on Pre-Budget 2007 Recommendations

CCA Bul­letin 51/06 Decem­ber 11, 2006 Just the Facts On Decem­ber 7, the Stand­ing Com­mit­tee on Finance released its report to the Min­is­ter of Finance, the Hon. James Fla­herty, regard­ing its 2007 fed­eral pre-budget con­sul­ta­tions. Over­all, the Com­mit­tee has made forty-two rec­om­men­da­tions about mea­sures it would like to see reflected in the next fed­eral bud­get. The...

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FROM OF THE DESK of Alain Pineau: Update on CCA’s 2006 Federal Election Advocacy

CCA Bul­letin 03/06 Decem­ber 8, 2005 The fed­eral elec­tion cam­paign is now in full swing and the CCA is on the case. If you are inter­ested in the pro­mo­tion and pro­tec­tion of the arts and cul­tural sec­tor in Canada,keep an eye on your email and take action!!  In the course of the next sev­eral weeks, this is what you can expect to see from the CCA elec­tion desk: · a pro­file of how each fed­eral party fared in the last Par­lia­ment, what was achieved, what wasn’t and what is promised for the future, · key...

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