From the desk of Alain Pineau
Thursday, August 03, 2006
Well, here it is at last! As announced at our March 2006 Conferences held in Ottawa, the Canadian Conference of the Arts (CCA) is launching the first issue of it new electronic magazine, CCA @gora!
CCA @gora is the latest communications tool the CCA plans to use in the pursuit of our mission as a national leader in creating informed debate about arts and cultural policy issues in Canada. It is not intended to replace our frequent bulletins to members, but will make more detailed information on issues available for your consultation and consideration. Our aim is to increase the number of editions of CCA @gora over the coming two years to about 8 per year, though for the moment it will remain a quarterly publication like its predecessor, Blizzart. However, it will only be made available online and we plan to use the medium of the Internet to its fullest in order to create interactive spaces for knowledge dissemination and for discussion in the area of cultural policy.
As announced previously, this first issue of CCA @gora is dedicated primarily to the Chalmers and National Policy conferences held in Ottawa at the beginning of March 2006. This first issue also provides a summary of our recent publication of the 2006 federal budget analysis. But the pièce de résistance of this first issue is the formal release of the Canadian Conference of the Arts' Policy and Advocacy Priorities Agenda for the coming 18 to 24 months, coming out of the deliberations by delegates at the March conference delegates meetings of our Board of Governors in March and in June. These priorities will obviously have to be managed according to political and other developments, but one thing is for sure, just considering what is in store at the return of Parliament we have our work cut out for the foreseeable future: a pre-budget consultation; the Parliamentary Committee and Ministerial reviews of DCH portfolio agencies; the CRTC's impending review of television policy and its study on the impact of new technologies on broadcasting; the Senate's review of the Federal Accountability Act; the likelihood of fall legislation regarding copyright and, potentially, foreign ownership restrictions; as well as the ongoing possibility of an upcoming federal election!
Have a safe and enjoyable end of summer!
Alain Pineau
National Director
CCA @gora is the latest communications tool the CCA plans to use in the pursuit of our mission as a national leader in creating informed debate about arts and cultural policy issues in Canada. It is not intended to replace our frequent bulletins to members, but will make more detailed information on issues available for your consultation and consideration. Our aim is to increase the number of editions of CCA @gora over the coming two years to about 8 per year, though for the moment it will remain a quarterly publication like its predecessor, Blizzart. However, it will only be made available online and we plan to use the medium of the Internet to its fullest in order to create interactive spaces for knowledge dissemination and for discussion in the area of cultural policy.
As announced previously, this first issue of CCA @gora is dedicated primarily to the Chalmers and National Policy conferences held in Ottawa at the beginning of March 2006. This first issue also provides a summary of our recent publication of the 2006 federal budget analysis. But the pièce de résistance of this first issue is the formal release of the Canadian Conference of the Arts' Policy and Advocacy Priorities Agenda for the coming 18 to 24 months, coming out of the deliberations by delegates at the March conference delegates meetings of our Board of Governors in March and in June. These priorities will obviously have to be managed according to political and other developments, but one thing is for sure, just considering what is in store at the return of Parliament we have our work cut out for the foreseeable future: a pre-budget consultation; the Parliamentary Committee and Ministerial reviews of DCH portfolio agencies; the CRTC's impending review of television policy and its study on the impact of new technologies on broadcasting; the Senate's review of the Federal Accountability Act; the likelihood of fall legislation regarding copyright and, potentially, foreign ownership restrictions; as well as the ongoing possibility of an upcoming federal election!
Have a safe and enjoyable end of summer!
Alain Pineau
National Director
posted by Canadian Conference of the Arts / Conférence canadienne des arts at 3:36 p.m.
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