Arts and culture: making the case for federal cash
Monday, July 4th, 2011By Dan Leger The Swiss honour artists in a manner most Swiss: they put them on money. The 10-franc note portrays the architect Le Corbusier and the 100 has sculptor Alberto Giacometti. Earlier this year, Hungary’s government renamed the main airport in Budapest after the composer Franz Liszt. In Hungary and Switzerland, art is an [...]
Scott Stinson: The CBC starts to erect its funding defences
Thursday, June 16th, 2011By Scott Stinson When Jim Flaherty’s ministry released the federal budget in Ottawa last week, the Finance Minister was resolute in his belief that about $4-billion in savings from program spending should be easily found. It was, Mr. Flaherty told reporters packed into a steamy room in Centre Block, kind of odd that something as [...]
CBC contributes $3.7 billion in gross value to Canadian economy: report
Wednesday, June 15th, 2011By: Jennifer Ditchburn, The Canadian Press OTTAWA – Faced with that uneasy feeling of budget cuts on the horizon, the CBC released a study Wednesday that pegs their gross impact on the Canadian economy last year at $3.7 billion. The analysis by consultants Deloitte and Touche LLP was commissioned by the public broadcaster in connection [...]
Tories re-announce budget measures
Thursday, June 9th, 2011The majority Conservative government announced stable funding of $100 million per year for the Canada Media Fund (CMF) in its federal budget Monday. The funding was also announced in the minority Conservative government’s budget in March, which did not pass due to an election forced by the opposition parties. The budget released Monday, a rehashing of [...]
Increase arts funding, NDP says
Monday, May 23rd, 2011The arts in Canada are an economic driver that need more support and shouldn’t be ignored by the Conservative government, the NDP said Tuesday as it introduced its new “arts caucus.” A trio of newly elected New Democrats joined re-elected MP Charlie Angus at a news conference in Ottawa, where they pledged to hold Prime [...]
NDP urges Tory government to support multi-billion dollar arts industry
Tuesday, May 17th, 2011OTTAWA – The NDP wants the Conservative government to boost support for the country’s multi-billion dollar arts industry. A group of four New Democrat MPs with a background in the arts said they are forming a new culture caucus and asking the Tories to consider increased funding for the Canada Council for the Arts. They [...]
Moore says ‘wait for budget’ on CBC funding
Wednesday, February 16th, 2011Heritage Minister James Moore refused to give details about CBC’s funding allocation for coming years when he appeared before the Commons heritage committee on Wednesday. CBC president Hubert Lacroix spoke to the committee last week about the difficulty in planning when $60 million of the public broadcaster’s annual budget is up for review every year. [...]
CBC five-year-plan includes new radio stations
Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011By Jennifer Ditchburn, The Canadian Press OTTAWA – The CBC promises to open new local stations and expand regional programming, triggering an uneasy feeling of deja vu. But President Hubert Lacroix says it’s different this time. The public broadcaster’s strategic plan, released Tuesday, speaks at length about renewed interest in connecting with Canadians where they [...]
Don’t touch our CBC, local supporters say
Wednesday, January 26th, 2011By Greg Mercer, Record staff Thu Jan 20 2011 WATERLOO REGION — Local CBC fans have a message for the federal government: keep your hands off our public broadcaster. They’re circulating a petition they want to send to Ottawa in advance of the upcoming Parliamentary session, where the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.’s budget will be on [...]
MP wants to quiz CBC bosses
Friday, December 10th, 2010By BRIAN LILLEY, Parliamentary Bureau OTTAWA – A Conservative MP wants to have CBC and its record on access to information studied by a Commons committee. Paul Calandra, an MP from Oak Ridges-Markham just outside of Toronto, tabled a motion Friday to have the Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics Committee, “study access to information [...]
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