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Wel­come to the CCA’s Media Cen­tre. This is your one stop shop to find our lat­est press releases, use­ful sta­tis­tics and other information.

 

Election 2011: What about arts and culture?

Election 2011: What about arts and culture?

      Date: April 20, 2011 Time: 5 pm — 6:30 pm Loca­tion: Uni­ver­sity of Ottawa, Des­marais Build­ing, 12th floor, Room 110 With the 2011 fed­eral elec­tion set to take place on May 2, the polit­i­cal land­scape in Canada will inevitably change. No mat­ter the out­come, the arts, cul­ture and her­itage sec­tor will be impacted in one way or another. As it now stands how­ever, are the arts even a pri­or­ity for the country’s lead­ing polit­i­cal parties? Join us as we seek to answer this ques­tion and more...

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Federal Election 2011: Political party responses

CCA Bul­letin 16/11 April 18, 2011 On April 5, the Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) sent the lead­ers of the five major fed­eral par­ties a series of ques­tions rel­e­vant to the arts, cul­ture and her­itage sec­tor. We are pub­lish­ing the responses we received in their entirety, with­out any edits or com­men­tary. In order to facil­i­tate com­par­i­son among the par­ties’ responses, we have for­mat­ted their answers in a table for­mat, accord­ing to each indi­vid­ual ques­tion asked. An...

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Federal Election 2011 – The party platforms: what about culture?

CCA Bul­letin 15/11 April 15, 2011 The Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) has taken the plat­forms avail­able from the five major fed­eral polit­i­cal par­ties and bro­ken them down for you. Below, you will find all per­ti­nent ele­ments of the party plat­forms divided into dif­fer­ent pri­or­i­ties iden­ti­fied by the CCA. These pri­or­i­ties are areas of focus for the arts, cul­ture and her­itage sec­tor in terms of pub­lic invest­ments in cul­ture, cul­tural poli­cies, reg­u­la­tion and...

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Federal Election 2011: What to ask your local candidates (Part 2)

CCA Bul­letin 14/11 April 6, 2011   The Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts’ main man­date — one that has been finan­cially sup­ported by the fed­eral gov­ern­ment for over 40 years — is to con­tribute to an informed pub­lic debate on cul­tural issues. In keep­ing with this man­date and in order to assist Cana­di­ans inter­ested in learn­ing about how arts and cul­ture are being dis­cussed dur­ing the 2011 elec­toral cam­paign, the CCA has iden­ti­fied six broad areas of impor­tance for artists,...

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Federal Election 2011: What to ask your local candidates (Part 1)

  CCA Bul­letin 13/11 April 5, 2011   The Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts’ main man­date — one that has been finan­cially sup­ported by the fed­eral gov­ern­ment for over 40 years — is to con­tribute to an informed pub­lic debate on cul­tural issues,. In keep­ing with this man­date and in order to assist Cana­di­ans inter­ested in learn­ing about how arts and cul­ture are being dis­cussed dur­ing the 2011 elec­toral cam­paign, the CCA has iden­ti­fied six broad areas of impor­tance for...

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Off to the races! The CCA welcomes you to your 2011 general federal election!

CCA Bul­letin 12/11 March 28, 2011   Just the facts On March 26, 2011, a day after a vote of no-confidence defeated the cur­rent Con­ser­v­a­tive minor­ity gov­ern­ment, the 2011 gen­eral fed­eral elec­tion was called, end­ing weeks of ris­ing polit­i­cal fer­vor and spec­u­la­tion. The Gov­er­nor Gen­eral dropped the writ this past Sat­ur­day send­ing us all to the polls on May 2nd.  In this bul­letin, you will find:   What you can expect from us in the next 35 days; An analy­sis of the state of cul­ture...

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2011 federal budget from the arts and culture perspective

CCA Bul­letin 11/11 March 22, 2011 Just the Facts After releas­ing the 2011 Main Esti­mates sev­eral weeks ago, the Hon. Min­is­ter of Finance, James Fla­herty, today tabled a much antic­i­pated 2011 fed­eral bud­get. Titled: The Next Phase of Canada’s Eco­nomic Action Plan: A Low-Tax Plan for Jobs and Growth, this is the first bud­get fol­low­ing the end of the government’s Eco­nomic Action Plan. Accord­ing to the gov­ern­ment, the reces­sion has ended, and thus, the econ­omy no longer requires...

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An alliterated update: CRTC, C-470 and CETA

CCA Bul­letin 10/11 March 21, 2011   Just the Facts CRTC — On March 7, the Cana­dian Radio-television and Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Com­mis­sion (CRTC) approved BCE’s acqui­si­tion of CTV­globe­me­dia (CTVgm) and laid out the ben­e­fits pack­age and con­di­tions linked to its approval. In its sub­mis­sion to the con­sul­ta­tion on the sale of CTVgm to BCE, the Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) had 1) asked for a robust pub­lic ben­e­fits pack­age for Cana­di­ans com­men­su­rate with...

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Revenue at risk through C-32: The CCA stands by its estimate of $126M a year

CCA Bul­letin 9/11 March 14, 2011   Just the facts On Feb­ru­ary 7, 2011, the Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) pub­lished a bul­letin pre­sent­ing the rev­enue received by cre­ators and other rights hold­ers which are at risk if Bill C-32 is adopted with­out amendments. In his March 3rd blog titled “The CCA’s $126 Mil­lion Wheel of For­tune: Guess­ing at Bill C-32’s Costs”, Uni­ver­sity of Ottawa Pro­fes­sor Michael Geist raised seri­ous ques­tions about the CCA’s cred­i­bil­ity...

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National Digital Strategy: the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage makes a series of recommendations

CCA Bul­letin 8/11 March 1, 2011   Just the Facts Almost a year after it began its study of dig­i­tal media, the Stand­ing Com­mit­tee on Cana­dian Her­itage has pub­lished its report Emerg­ing and Dig­i­tal Media: Oppor­tu­ni­ties and Chal­lenges. The con­text for the study relates to two ear­lier reports pub­lished by the com­mit­tee: one on the impact of emerg­ing and dig­i­tal media on Cana­dian pub­lic broad­cast­ing (CBC/Radio-Canada: Defin­ing Dis­tinc­tive­ness in the Chang­ing...

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