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Media Centre

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

 

National Cultural Strategy Workshop

Tak­ing place in Ottawa on March 12, 2009, the National Cul­tural Strat­egy Work­shop was a pro­duc­tive day of dis­cus­sion on the short-term and long-term chal­lenges now fac­ing the Cana­dian cul­tural sector. The CCA brought stake­hold­ers  together from around Canada to con­tinue the process of con­sen­sus build­ing ini­ti­ated through the 2008 Regional Forums. Over 110 peo­ple from all dis­ci­plines, orga­ni­za­tions and  regions par­tic­i­pated in the event by Anne L’Ecuyer  from Amer­i­can...

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Artists: Powering the Creative Economy

The CCA’s 2010 National Pol­icy Con­fer­ence, Artists: Powering the Cre­ative Econ­omy?, gath­ered over 150 del­e­gates from across the coun­try for two days of intense dis­cus­sion, debate and exchange. The theme focused on the cre­ative econ­omy and the pol­icy struc­tures needed for Cana­dian artists and cre­ators to thrive within this emerg­ing framework. Read the  full con­fer­ence sum­mary here.

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Culture: what should go into the next federal budget?

CCA Bul­letin 24/11 July 11, 2011 Cul­ture: what should go into the next fed­eral budget? As is the case each sum­mer, the House of Com­mons’ Stand­ing Com­mit­tee on Finance has launched its annual national con­sul­ta­tion on what should be included or excluded in the next fed­eral bud­get. This year’s process is tak­ing place in par­al­lel with the secre­tive Strate­gic and Oper­a­tional Review which is cur­rently under­way within all gov­ern­ment depart­ments and agen­cies. The objec­tive of the review is...

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Provincial Cultural Policy: Then and Now

Provincial Cultural Policy: Then and Now

      Date: June 20, 2011 Time: 5 pm — 6:30 pm Loca­tion: Uni­ver­sity of Ottawa, Des­marais Build­ing, 12th floor, Room 110 Provin­cial inter­ven­tions in the cul­tural pol­icy field have been exten­sive over the past sev­eral decades, yet have been largely ignored in com­par­a­tive stud­ies of pol­icy and admin­is­tra­tion. This ses­sion will high­light the first major com­pre­hen­sive Cana­dian study of the evo­lu­tion of cul­tural pol­icy and admin­is­tra­tion in all ten provinces and three...

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Who will be on the Heritage Standing Committee?

CCA Bul­letin 22/11 June 15, 2011 Just the Facts The 41st Par­lia­ment result­ing from the May 2 gen­eral elec­tion is get­ting set up. While a number of MPs are still mov­ing in and out of their offices, reflect­ing the sea of changes that has brought 111 new mem­bers to Par­lia­ment Hill, respon­si­bil­i­ties are slowly being assigned. On June 13, we learned a bit more with the announce­ment of the var­i­ous stand­ing com­mit­tees in the House of Commons. Under­stand­ably, the CCA is...

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Throne Speech and Federal Budget: it’s almost business as usual

CCA Bul­letin 21/11 June 7, 2011   Just the Facts On Fri­day, June 3, the Gov­er­nor Gen­eral gave a speech from the throne her­alded by many as pri­mar­ily cer­e­mo­nial. The speech toed a safe line with­out intro­duc­ing any new dras­tic pol­icy mea­sures, and we saw the same approach again in yesterday’s tabling of the fed­eral bud­get by the Min­is­ter of Finance, the Hon. James Flaherty. Min­is­ter Fla­herty tabled his sec­ond 2011 fed­eral bud­get, The Next Phase of Canada’s Eco­nomic Action...

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The cultural sector and the new Conservative cabinet

CCA Bul­letin 19/11 May 24, 2011 Just the Facts On May 2, 2011, Cana­di­ans went to the polls and elected a Con­ser­v­a­tive major­ity, the first major­ity gov­ern­ment in seven years. On Wednes­day, May 18, the first cab­i­net under the 41st Par­lia­ment was sworn in at Rideau Hall, the res­i­dence of the Gov­er­nor Gen­eral of Canada. The new cab­i­net is com­prised of 38 min­is­ters, with nine new faces and 10 women. On June 2, Par­lia­men­tar­i­ans will con­vene for a first time to elect the...

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Participate in the 2011 census and the National Household Survey!

CCA Bul­letin 18/11 May 4, 2011 Just the facts In addi­tion to being fed­eral elec­tion day, Mon­day marked the debut of the 2011 manda­tory short-form cen­sus .  On May 2, 2011, the eight-question doc­u­ment began to make its way by mail to approx­i­mately 15 mil­lion house­holds across the coun­try.  Accord­ing to the Sta­tis­tics Act, all Cana­dian res­i­dents are legally required to com­plete the cen­sus ques­tion­naire. The cen­sus ques­tion­naire can be com­pleted online or on paper. To ...

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Arts, Culture and Heritage Organizations Present Common Platform for Election 2011

Ottawa, ON (April 21, 2011) — Over 70 national, provin­cial and munic­i­pal cul­tural orga­ni­za­tions from across the coun­try have come together to sign a com­mon plat­form in the con­text of the 2011 fed­eral elec­tion, in which they ask fed­eral par­ties to make more sus­tained com­mit­ments to Cana­dian arts, cul­ture and her­itage. This com­mon plat­form, the first ever achieved by the sec­tor, was estab­lished after a series of con­sul­ta­tions and dis­cus­sions led by the Cana­dian Con­fer­ence ...

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Federal Election 2011: Public Cultural Investments under Canada’s 40th Parliament

CCA Bul­letin 17/11 April 20, 2011     In 2008, the CCA pub­lished a bul­letin ana­lyz­ing the invest­ments made under Canada’s 39th Par­lia­ment in the arts, cul­ture and her­itage sec­tor. In order to give you a broad per­spec­tive, we used sev­eral years’ worth of bud­get analy­ses to explain fund­ing to the sec­tor. In today’s bul­letin, we will aim to do the same thing. By using fund­ing fig­ures from the Depart­ment of Her­itage, its agen­cies and pro­grams, we will break down themes...

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