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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.

 

Musical Diversity Funding: a pre-Holiday Discordant Report

CCA Bul­letin 30/09 Decem­ber 14, 2009 Just the facts On Decem­ber 9, the Stand­ing Com­mit­tee on Her­itage pre­sented its report on the three hear­ings on the abo­li­tion of the Musi­cal Diver­sity Pro­grams ($ 1.3m) admin­is­tered by the Canada  Coun­cil of the Arts on behalf of the Depart­ment of Cana­dian Heritage. The pro­grams abol­ished tar­geted the record­ing and dis­tri­b­u­tion of so-called “spe­cial­ized” music, i.e. “music whose intent or con­tent is not shaped by the desire for...

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2010 Pre-budget Consultations Report: Arts and Culture pushed to the back burner once again!

CCA Bul­letin 29/09 Decem­ber 11, 2009       Just the Facts On Decem­ber 9, the Stand­ing Com­mit­tee on Finance pre­sented to the House of Com­mons its Report on the 2010 pre-budget con­sul­ta­tions titled A pros­per­ous and sus­tain­able future for Canada: needed fed­eral actions. Over 400 orga­ni­za­tions appeared in front of the Com­mit­tee in hear­ings held across the coun­try over the past three months, at a cost of “half a mil­lion dol­lars to tax­pay­ers”, accord­ing to the Lib­er­als....

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FROM THE DESK of Alain Pineau: Update on CCA Activities

CCA Bul­letin 28/09 Decem­ber 1, 2009   The past sev­eral weeks have been quite busy here at the Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) and it is about time I bring you up to date on what has been going on, par­tic­u­larly on the advo­cacy front. In this bul­letin, I will dis­cuss the following: CCA’s pre­sen­ta­tion to the newly formed all-party Arts Caucus; CCA‘s quest for reli­able and timely cul­tural statistics; CCA’s call on the CRTC to ensure Cana­di­ans have access to qual­ity Cana­dian...

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CCA urges CRTC to regulate cable and satellite rates

CCA Bul­letin 27/09 Novem­ber 3, 2009   Just the Facts The fed­eral gov­ern­ment has recently instructed the CRTC to hold a pub­lic hear­ing to ask the assess the impact on con­sumers of com­pen­sat­ing over-the-air tele­vi­sion broad­cast­ers – such as CTV, Global and CBC – for the dis­tri­b­u­tion of  their sig­nals by the cable and satel­lite indus­try. This is an impor­tant issue indeed because, as the Order in Coun­cil (OIC) points out, the vast major­ity of Cana­di­ans receive their...

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CCA TO CRTC: PROTECT CONSUMERS BY REGULATING CABLE AND SATELLITE RATES

The Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) weighed in yes­ter­day on the pub­lic debate on whether cable and satel­lite oper­a­tors should be called upon to pay over-the-air (OTA) tele­vi­sion broad­cast­ers for the dis­tri­b­u­tion of local signals. The CCA sup­ports the intro­duc­tion of a value for sig­nal pay­ment, pro­vided that the CRTC also imposes Cana­dian pro­gram­ming expen­di­ture require­ments on OTA broad­cast­ers equiv­a­lent to 6% of their rev­enue.  In order to pro­tect the inter­ests...

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Privatized Culture in Bad Times: Evaluating the American System of Cultural Patronage

CCA Bul­letin 26/09 Octo­ber 29, 2009     Just the Facts On Tues­day, Octo­ber 20, the Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA), in part­ner­ship with the Uni­ver­sity of Ottawa, pre­sented a lec­ture by Pro­fesseur Kevin Mulc­ahy, Shel­don Bey­chok Dis­tin­guished Pro­fes­sor in the Depart­ment of Polit­i­cal Sci­ence at Louisiana State Uni­ver­sity, who dis­cussed the evolv­ing model of Amer­i­can cul­tural pol­icy within the con­text of the eco­nomic downturn. Tell me more The...

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The CCA urges the government to keep investing in musical development and diversity

CCA Bul­letin 25/09 Octo­ber 28, 2009   Just the facts Last week, the CCA appeared in front of the Stand­ing Com­mit­tee on Her­itage which is cur­rently study­ing the impacts of los­ing two pro­grams abol­ished by the fed­eral gov­ern­ment: invest­ing in the record­ing and mar­ket­ing of “spe­cial­ized” Cana­dian music. These pro­grams gave grants to musi­cians pro­duc­ing works which, while not cur­rently com­mer­cially viable, are deemed artis­ti­cally inno­v­a­tive and capa­ble of...

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The CCA in front of the Finance Committee: First priority, market development!

CCA Bul­letin 23/09 Sep­tem­ber 21, 2009   Just the facts Last Thurs­day, the Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) appeared in front of the Stand­ing Com­mit­tee on Finance to present and defend its 2010 pre-budget sub­mis­sion. The rules guid­ing the sub­mis­sions to this annual con­sul­ta­tion are quite restric­tive, with each brief lim­ited to five pages, com­pris­ing no more than three rec­om­men­da­tions. Given the unique breadth of the CCA man­date, in our writ­ten sub­mis­sion, we...

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The CCA’s 2009 Federal Budget Analysis: Finding Solid Ground?

CCA Bul­letin 22/09 Sep­tem­ber 10, 2009     Today the Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) pub­lishes its 2009 Bud­get Analy­sis which exam­ines fed­eral fund­ing for arts, cul­ture and her­itage from 2008/09 — 2009/10. This analy­sis looks at orga­ni­za­tional and fund­ing changes within the Depart­ment of Cana­dian Her­itage (DCH); fed­eral fund­ing of key pro­grams across the arts, her­itage and cul­tural agen­cies and indus­tries as well as crown agen­cies. It also cov­ers other...

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Pre-Budget Submission: The CCA urges Ottawa to make strategic investments in the creative economy

CCA Bul­letin 21/09 August 17 , 2009       Just the Facts On Fri­day August 14, 2009, the Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) filed its writ­ten pre-budget sub­mis­sion with the House of Com­mons Stand­ing Com­mit­tee on Finance. In it, the CCA calls for the gov­ern­ment to tackle three broad pri­or­i­ties within the arts, cul­ture and her­itage port­fo­lio: fos­ter­ing mar­ket devel­op­ment for Cana­dian arts and cul­ture both in Canada and abroad; invest­ing in the cre­ative econ­omy, and...

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