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New Brunswick Tour — Part One

New Brunswick Tour — Part One

Feb­ru­ary 9, 2012 I finally have some free time to tell you about my tour of New Brunswick: what a heavy agenda that was! This is the only province where I have vis­ited three cities: Fred­er­ic­ton, Saint John and Monc­ton. All in all, five pub­lic pre­sen­ta­tions, five small group meet­ings, and some 125 peo­ple heard the CCA mes­sage over those three days… not count­ing those who fol­lowed one pre­sen­ta­tion on Twit­ter (more about that in a moment)! It all started in Fred­er­ic­ton where I arrived on Sun­day...

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The National Director’s Blog — On the way back from Edmonton

The National Director’s Blog — On the way back from Edmonton

Feb­ru­ary 2, 2012 EDMONTON — My too-short visit to Edmon­ton was a fit­ting con­clu­sion to a very excit­ing week in Alberta. I arrived in the provin­cial cap­i­tal Tues­day night on the Red Arrow bus from Cal­gary (what high qual­ity travel on board of those buses, some­thing to shame Voyageur ser­vices back East!). Tom McFall, Exec­u­tive Direc­tor of the Alberta Craft Coun­cil and CCA Board mem­ber, was wait­ing for me at the sta­tion and after drop­ping my lug­gage at the hotel, we went out for din­ner to...

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The National Director’s Blog – On the Red Arrow bus from Calgary to Edmonton

The National Director’s Blog – On the Red Arrow bus from Calgary to Edmonton

Jan­u­ary 31 CALGARY — Ah Cal­gary! What a warm wel­come, and I am not refer­ring to the spring-like tem­per­a­ture or the radi­ant sun­shine of the past two days! It began yes­ter­day at the air­port where Michael Green, Cura­tor and Artis­tic Direc­tor for Cal­gary 2012 was wait­ing to take me to my hotel and it went on until Tom McCarthy, Gen­eral Man­ager of Cal­gary Arts Devel­op­ment, dropped me at the Red Arrow bus ter­mi­nal today. I was wel­comed with open arms in this mod­ern metrop­o­lis in...

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From the traveling desk of Alain Pineau — Written from the tarmac in Winnipeg

From the traveling desk of Alain Pineau — Written from the tarmac in Winnipeg

Jan­u­ary 27, 2012 WINNIPEG — The weather gods are no longer smil­ing upon me! Freez­ing rain in Toronto and Ottawa means that I have at least three hours of leisure time at the Win­nipeg air­port: who knows at what time I’ll get home today! I may as well take advan­tage of this delay to blog on my short visit in Manitoba’s cap­i­tal. CCA Board mem­ber Nicole Mati­a­tion and Thom Spar­ling, Exec­u­tive Direc­tor of the Arts and Cul­tural Indus­tries Asso­ci­a­tion of Man­i­toba (ACI) pre­pared a fully loaded...

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What to expect with the return of the House in Ottawa?

CCA Bulletin 01/12 January 27, 2012 highlights federal legislation on the horizon: Bill C-11, new CRA guidelines for arts organizations and potential changes at the CRTC.

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From the traveling desk of Alain Pineau — Latest news from Regina

From the traveling desk of Alain Pineau — Latest news from Regina

  Jan­u­ary 24, 2012 REGINA — The weather gods have been good to me so far. While Saskatchewan was a frigid –40º C last week, today was a balmy –2º C and the sun was shin­ing bright and warm, cer­tainly more pleas­ant weather to deal with as Marnie Glad­well gen­er­ously drove me from meet­ing to meet­ing. I must say that when it comes to mak­ing sure not a sec­ond of my stay here is wasted, Marnie has very few rivals. She had us booked from 8 in the morn­ing to 6 at night, with barely a break for a soup...

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From the traveling desk of Alain Pineau — A full day in Saskatoon and off to Regina

From the traveling desk of Alain Pineau — A full day in Saskatoon and off to Regina

Jan­u­ary 23, 2012 REGINA — So here I am, finally set­tled into my hotel room after a three hour bus ride that took me from Saska­toon to Regina with my knees pressed against the seat in front of me. At least I had inter­net access along the way so I could catch up on the day’s e-mails and read an excel­lent inter­view by Greg O’Brien from cartt.ca with Kon­rad Von Finck­en­stein, the chair­man of the CRTC whose term is fin­ish­ing up in a few days. It was a long and busy day! I was up at 6 a.m. for a tele­phone...

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From the traveling desk of Alain Pineau — January 23, 2012

From the traveling desk of Alain Pineau — January 23, 2012

SASKATOON — Already time to head back to the air­port. My only week in the office between Jan­u­ary 9 and Feb­ru­ary 21 has gone by like a flash of light­ning: so many things to do before return­ing to the on-the-road vir­tual office, hostage to tech­no­log­i­cal haz­ards and human frailty! So, back to the national tour: after Vic­to­ria and Van­cou­ver, BC, on to Saskatchewan and Man­i­toba. I knew my first stop, Saska­toon, was referred to as the City of Bridges. Last Fri­day, I learned on CBC’s National that it is...

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From the traveling desk of Alain Pineau — January 13, 2012

From the traveling desk of Alain Pineau — January 13, 2012

VANCOUVER — After an excel­lent meet­ing Tues­day with the Gen­eral Direc­tor of the BC Arts Coun­cil, Gillian Wood, I made my way to the port of Vic­to­ria to ride the sea­plane to Van­cou­ver. This was a first for me, and what an expe­ri­ence! It was sunny and the ride was smooth con­sid­er­ing the small size of the plane. It was sim­ply mar­vel­lous to see the islands dot­ting the strait sep­a­rat­ing the island of Van­cou­ver from the main­land. The arrival in Van­cou­ver was one of the best expe­ri­ences...

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Quebec gets a move on!

In Novem­ber 2011, we received two new reports exam­in­ing the impact of dig­i­tal tech­nolo­gies on Que­bec. The first from SODEC, Porte grande ouverte sur le numérique, reports on a con­sul­ta­tion under­taken in 2010. The sec­ond report comes from the Que­bec Coun­cil of Arts and Let­ters (Con­seil des arts et des let­tres du Québec or CALQ) and a sum­mary is pro­vided below. SODEC: Doors Wide Open on Digital This report details the impact of the dig­i­tal tech­nolo­gies on the cul­tural indus­tries in Que­bec:...

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