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Bill C-11, the Legislative Committee Has Been Struck

CCA Bul­letin 30/11 Octo­ber 31, 2011 It is Hal­loween: what could be more ter­ri­fy­ing than to speak of copy­right! So here is the bul­letin promised in our last missive. Just the facts Sev­eral names were cir­cu­lat­ing for a few days and as per its oblig­a­tion to name com­mit­tee mem­bers within five days of the start of the sec­ond read­ing debates, the Stand­ing Com­mit­tee on Pro­ce­dure and House Affairs has estab­lished the Leg­isla­tive Com­mit­tee on Bill C-11. The com­mit­tee is made up of 12...

Past Thinking Culture Forums

2011 Where is the Cana­dian Pub­lish­ing Indus­try Going? Speaker: Dou­glas  Gibson Date: Novem­ber 17, 2011 Time: 5:00 — 7:00 pm Loca­tion: Uni­ver­sity of Ottawa, Des­marais Build­ing, 12th floor   Cul­ture and Sus­tain­able Communities Speak­ers: Nancy Duxbury, Michel-Rémi Lafond Date: Octo­ber 11, 2011 Time: 5:00 — 7:00 pm Loca­tion: Uni­ver­sity of Ottawa, Des­marais Build­ing, 12th floor, Room 120   Provin­cial Cul­tural Pol­icy: Then and Now Speak­ers: Mon­ica Gat­tinger, Diane Saint-Pierre, M....

Where is the Canadian Publishing Industry Going?

Speaker: Dou­glas  Gibson

Date: Novem­ber 17, 2011

Time: 5:00 — 7:00 pm

Loca­tion: Uni­ver­sity of Ottawa, Des­marais Build­ing, 12th floor

Culture and Sustainable Communities

    Date: Octo­ber 11, 2011 Time: 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. Loca­tion: Uni­ver­sity of Ottawa, Des­marais Build­ing, 55 Lau­rier Avenue East, 12th floor, Room 12120   This ses­sion will pro­vide insight into the evo­lu­tion of an increas­ingly impor­tant issue on Canada’s cul­tural landscape. Come and join us for an overview of the con­cep­tual issues fac­ing munic­i­pal­i­ties work­ing to inte­grate cul­ture into sus­tain­abil­ity plans, along with a brief dis­cus­sion about how Agenda 21 for Cul­ture is...

Cultural funding: where will the axe fall?

CCA Bul­letin 27/11 Sep­tem­ber 12, 2011 Just the facts The Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) today presents its analy­sis of the 2011 fed­eral bud­get, which was adopted in June by the 41st Par­lia­ment, fur­ther to the May gen­eral election.   Like last year, this year’s bud­get analy­sis reveals that over­all, fed­eral fund­ing to the cul­tural sec­tor remains sta­ble, which has more or less been the case since 2006 under suc­ces­sive Con­ser­v­a­tive minor­ity gov­ern­ments. While the CCA...

The CCA urges the government to invest in a renewable resource: culture

CCA Bul­letin 26/11 August 11, 2011   Just the Facts Today, the Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) sub­mit­ted its 2012 pre-budget sub­mis­sion to the House of Com­mons’ Stand­ing Com­mit­tee on Finance. In con­sul­ta­tion with our mem­ber­ship, we encour­age the gov­ern­ment to main­tain and if pos­si­ble, increase its invest­ments in Cana­dian artis­tic cre­ativ­ity, a renew­able, non-polluting nat­ural resource that con­tributes greatly to the econ­omy, to our qual­ity of life and to our...

Canadian programming: the CRTC returns to regulation

CCA Bul­letin 25/11 August 8, 2011 The CRTC requires pri­vate Eng­lish tele­vi­sion ser­vice providers to sup­port the pro­duc­tion of domes­tic pro­gram­ming, includ­ing “pro­grams of national inter­est” such as drama or com­edy series, doc­u­men­taries and awards shows that pro­mote Cana­dian culture. Fol­low­ing the group-based licence renewal process, the CRTC now requires Bell Media, Corus Enter­tain­ment and Shaw Media to devote at least 30% of their gross annual rev­enues to Cana­dian pro­gram­ming...

The Role of the Arts and Culture in Public Diplomacy

Arts and cul­ture play a cen­tral role in the diplo­matic strate­gies of numer­ous coun­tries, which see the pre­sen­ta­tion of their cul­ture abroad as a chance to tell the world who they are and to cre­ate a pos­i­tive image use­ful in pur­su­ing their goals. At a time when pub­lic diplo­macy is the sub­ject of renewed inter­est on the part of the gov­ern­ments of many West­ern democ­ra­cies, it is fit­ting to reflect upon the role that arts and cul­ture could play in Canada’s for­eign pol­icy. On Novem­ber...

Between Public Diplomacy and Nation Branding: a New Way of Thinking the Internationalization of Canadian Culture

The Sym­po­sium on the Role of the Arts and Cul­ture in Pub­lic Diplo­macy held by the CCA on Novem­ber 22, 2007, clearly demon­strated a con­sen­sus among the art and cul­ture sec­tor con­cern­ing the impor­tance of inter­na­tional activ­i­ties for Cana­dian artists. How to best achieve this goal was, and remains, the main point of dis­cus­sion. Many del­e­gates at the Sym­po­sium stressed the need for bet­ter coor­di­na­tion between the var­i­ous play­ers in this field, the impor­tance of main­tain­ing...

The Regional Forums with the National Director

In the fall of 2008, the CCA’s National Direc­tor  invited its mem­bers and var­i­ous stake­hold­ers in arts and cul­ture to meet for a series of pub­lic forums. Forums took place between the Octo­ber 17 and Decem­ber 5 in the fol­low­ing cities: Ottawa, Van­cou­ver, Edmon­ton, Calgary, Regina, Mon­tréal, Toronto, Win­nipeg, Saska­toon, Hal­i­fax, St. John’s, Moncton, Charlottetown and Fredericton. To start a pub­lic dis­cus­sion about the  arts and cul­ture sec­tor, the fol­low­ing ques­tions were...