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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.

 

CCA urges the government to keep investing in arts and culture beyond Canada’s Economic Action Plan

CCA Bul­letin 21/10 August 16, 2010     Just the Facts On Fri­day August 13, the Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) sub­mit­ted its pre-budget brief for 2011 to the House of Com­mons Stand­ing Com­mit­tee on Finance. In it, the CCA frames the man­ner in which the fed­eral gov­ern­ment should invest in arts and cul­ture, and empha­sizes the need for the gov­ern­ment to con­tinue its com­mit­ment of sta­ble fund­ing for arts and cul­ture as we come to the end of Canada’s Eco­nomic Action Plan. The CCA...

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The Long-Form Census Controversy and the Arts

CCA Bul­letin 20/10 July 20, 2010   Just the Facts On June 26, as Cana­di­ans were focused on the G-8 and G-20 meet­ings in Toronto, the gov­ern­ment dis­cretely announced its deci­sion that the long-form cen­sus would no longer be com­pul­sory. The cen­sus, which is sent every five years by Sta­tis­tics Canada to a fifth of Cana­dian house­holds, would be replaced by a vol­un­tary sur­vey of a full third of Cana­dian house­holds. The short ver­sion of the national cen­sus, which con­tains only eight ...

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What are the Department of Canadian Heritage’s Priorities for 2010-11?

CCA Bul­letin 19/10 July 19, 2010     The Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) is still work­ing on its detailed Analy­sis of the 2010 Fed­eral Bud­get, which is delayed as we wait for answers from the gov­ern­ment on a num­ber of issues. As part of its Bud­get Analy­sis on arts, cul­ture and her­itage, the CCA exam­ines the Depart­ment of Cana­dian Heritage’s Report on Plans and Pri­or­i­ties pub­lished in the spring. This doc­u­ment is the expen­di­ture plan for the Depart­ment. It pro­vides...

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Arts, Culture and a National Digital Strategy

CCA Bul­letin 18/10 July 12, 2010   Just the facts In a brief filed as part of the nation-wide con­sul­ta­tion launched last May, the Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) urges the gov­ern­ment to make con­tent cre­ation a cen­tre­piece of the national strat­egy for the dig­i­tal econ­omy. The con­sul­ta­tion, which was due to end on July 9, has been extended to July 13, midnight. The CCA’s fun­da­men­tal approach to a national strat­egy is based on the belief that infra­struc­ture, wires, ...

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Canadian Conference of the Arts Announces Details for National Policy Conference

Ottawa, ON (June 29, 2010) – The Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) has announced details for its upcom­ing National Pol­icy Con­fer­ence, Artists: Pow­er­ing the Cre­ative Econ­omy?, tak­ing place Novem­ber 1–3, 2010 at the National Arts Cen­tre in Ottawa. The con­fer­ence will fea­ture pan­els, pre­sen­ta­tions and white­board ses­sions explor­ing poli­cies and issues affect­ing the arts, cul­ture and her­itage sec­tor within the cre­ative econ­omy. As Canada and other coun­tries move towards an...

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The House of Commons is off for the summer

CCA Bul­letin 16/10   June 22, 2010       Just the Facts Last week, mem­bers of the House of Com­mons left the Hill for the sum­mer, with MPs return­ing to their rid­ings to mull over the work ahead in the fall. Mean­while, the Sen­ate is still try­ing to deal with the mas­sive omnibus bud­get bill, C-9. Mem­bers of its Finance Com­mit­tee are say­ing that they will stay as long as it takes to get through the 904 page document. So, from the arts and cul­ture per­spec­tive, what has been accom­plished in the...

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Amending the Copyright Act: What’s in it for Artists?

CCA Bul­letin 15/10   June 3, 2010   Analy­sis Yes­ter­day, the Con­ser­v­a­tive gov­ern­ment tabled for first read­ing in the House of Com­mons Bill C-32, an Act to mod­ern­ize the Cana­dian Copy­right Act. This much awaited piece of leg­is­la­tion has been the object of spec­u­la­tion and con­cern from both sides of what has been, and will no doubt con­tinue to be a hot pub­lic debate. The doc­u­ment has 65 pages of ref­er­ences for changes to the cur­rent Act and deci­pher­ing all of this...

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Harmonized Sales Tax: What does it mean for the arts?

CCA Bul­letin 14/10   May 25, 2010   Just the Facts In Decem­ber 2009, the Ontario leg­is­la­ture and the House of Com­mons and Sen­ate enacted leg­is­la­tion for a har­mo­nized sales tax (HST) to be imple­mented on July 1, 2010. Bill C-62 received Royal Assent in the House of Com­mons on Decem­ber 15, 2009 and laid out the Provin­cial Choice Tax Frame­work Act. This leg­is­la­tion replaces Ontario’s retail sales tax (RST) with the HST. The HST will have a com­bined sales tax rate of 13% (com­bin­ing...

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Towards a Canadian national digital strategy?

CCA Bul­letin 13/10   May 13, 2010     Just the facts This week, the fed­eral gov­ern­ment launched a nation-wide con­sul­ta­tion on the devel­op­ment of a national dig­i­tal strat­egy. The announce­ment was made jointly by Min­is­ters Clement (Indus­try), Moore (Her­itage) and Fin­ley (Human Resources and Skills Devel­op­ment) at the Canada 3.0 Con­fer­ence on dig­i­tal media. Min­is­ter Moore said, “Our gov­ern­ment is com­mit­ted to ensur­ing that cre­ators, inven­tors and...

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The Canadian Conference of the Arts urges the CRTC to put communities back in community television

Ottawa, ON (May 4, 2010) — Today, Alain Pineau, National Direc­tor of the Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA), urged the CRTC to put com­mu­ni­ties back in com­mu­nity tele­vi­sion. He also deplored the lack of data made avail­able for a full eval­u­a­tion of how cable oper­a­tors use the $ 130 mil­lion they col­lect for com­mu­nity television. The cur­rent hear­ing explores how best to achieve the social and cul­tural objec­tives of com­mu­nity broad­cast­ing as set in the Broad­cast­ing Act. ...

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