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Thinking Culture: Thinking Festivals

Thinking Culture: Thinking Festivals

The CCA regrets to announce that this forum is cancelled.  Alas!

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Our National Director Takes Off!

Our National Director Takes Off!

Alain Pineau took off on a cross-Canada tour on January 9 to meet with supporters of Canadian arts and culture, including CCA members of course. Take a gander at this page for more details on tour stops!

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FROM THE DESK OF Alain Pineau: A little of this, a little of that . . .

CCA Bulletin 33/11 December 1, 2011 Well, this week has been a little different than others. For once, I was able to put aside my primary preoccupation of the last few months – the reinvention and financial autonomy of the CCA (I will come back to that at the end of this bulletin!) – to participate in other forums where the stakes were just as important. This started Monday morning with a half-day session on the importance and the challenges of public broadcasters. This event was organized by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) as...

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Federal budget: Economic and Fiscal Update and the Second Set of Supplementary Estimates

CCA Bulletin 32/11 November 17, 2011 Just the facts Last week, the government released its Update of Economic and Fiscal Projections. One main message emerged from the document:  owing to continued weakness in the global economy, downward revisions for economic growth in Canada and considerable economic uncertainty going forward, the government will not return to fiscal balance until 2015-2016, a year later than projected in Budget 2011. This does not alter the seriousness and resolve of the government to adhere to the Strategic and Operating...

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FROM THE DESK OF Alain Pineau: Time for an update!

CCA Bulletin 31/11 November 15, 2011 How time flies! This fall is particularly busy for all of us: I’m not not sure exactly why, but it seems that everyone is running on an accelerating treadmill! So it is time again to keep you posted on a number of current files. The Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement Let’s start with the negotiations between Canada and the European Community. I participated in the briefing session organized by the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade on October 28. The main issue concerning...

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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 members and cannot begin its work before the House passes the motion...

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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. Sharon Jeannotte Date: June 20, 2011 Time:...

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Where is the Canadian Publishing Industry Going?

Where is the Canadian Publishing Industry Going?

  Ten years ago, the Canadian publishing industry had no reason to envy publishing industries in other countries. Canadian literature and publishing houses were the finest jewels in Canada’s cultural life. During this period, Douglas Gibson published for McClelland & Stewart such authors as Alice Munro, Peter Gzowski, Jack Hodgins, James Houston, W.O. Mitchell and Mavis Gallant.  With the state of the economy and pressure from the European Union to relax ownership rules, what does the future hold for the Canadian...

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Culture and Sustainable Communities

Culture and Sustainable Communities

      Cultural Forum Series 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...

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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 characterized this ‘holding pattern’ as reassuring last...

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