OTTAWA – The federal government has pledged over $200,000 towards a new initiative designed to help Canada’s arts sector provide safe workplaces free from discrimination, harassment and sexual misconduct.
On Wednesday, Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly and the Canada Council for the Arts awarded close to $552,000 to the Cultural Human Resources Council (CHRC), earmarked for a series of initiatives to equip the cultural sector with the tools, practices and training for building and maintaining respectful workplaces under the title ‘Respectful Workplaces in the Arts’.
The Department of Canadian Heritage is providing $252,000, and the Canada Council for the Arts will be…
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WILLIAMS LAKE, BC – The Tŝilhqot'in National Government will receive $180,500 in funding from the federal government this year to support its Community Radio Project, a new platform for the Tŝilhqot'in Nation to assist in the revitalization of their language and culture.
Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada Jody Wilson-Raybould made the announcement Monday on behalf of Canadian Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly.
Tŝilhqot'in Community Radio, based in Williams Lake, said that it will offer programs in Tŝilhqot'in, Carrier, Nuxalk and English, such as language lessons and interviews; news and community updates; traditional stories and songs; music and comedy…
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TORONTO – CBC must stop destroying its “irreplaceable” original radio and television programming after digitizing them, says the Canadian Broadcast Museum Foundation (CBMF).
According to the charitable foundation, CBC’s English Services has trashed almost a million acetate transcriptions, audio and video tapes, and other legacy master-recordings – or eight decades of Canada’s English-language radio and television history – since the beginning of April, despite pleas from stakeholders such as ACTRA, Actra Fraternal Benefits Society, and Friends of Canadian Broadcasting seeking to preserve them.
The CBMF says the move flies in the face of internationally accepted standards and best practices of audiovisual…
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OTTAWA – As part of the pending review of the Copyright Act, the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage will study remuneration models for artists and creative industries.
In a brief statement, the Committee said that it “welcomed this invitation” from the House of Commons Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology to review remuneration models and the opportunities from new access points for artists and creative industries in the context of the Copyright Act.
The Committee added that it will begin the study this spring by calling upon “a broad range of stakeholders and experts on these matters”.
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VANCOUVER – The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) has inked two new deals in the People’s Republic of China which will see Canadian animation and documentaries titles available on CCTV-10, the science and education channel of China Central Television, as well as the Bilibili web portal.
The agreements include more than 70 NFB titles, including new and classic films alike, with the bulk of NFB works available online on Bilibili for a five-year period. The deal with CCTV-10 was arranged through the Hubu Media Group.
The two deals are the latest agreements between the NFB and China, and…
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OTTAWA – Heritage Minister Melanie Joly has embarked upon Canada’s first creative industries trade mission to China.
She is accompanied by a delegation of almost 60 Canadian companies and organizations representing several sectors of creative industries, after issuing an open invitation last October for those seeking to build partnerships and business-to-business relationships in China.
Canadian Heritage said that the objective of the trade mission, which is scheduled for April 8 – 13, is to facilitate new market entry, leverage existing networks and renew partnerships.
“Additionally, it will serve as a platform for participating organizations to explore new business opportunities, advance ongoing…
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Goldbloom named new chair; three new board members added
OTTAWA – Long time film, television and digital content maker Catherine Tait has been named president and CEO of CBC/Radio-Canada, Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly announced this morning. She will be the first woman to hold the top job at Canada’s public broadcaster.
She replaces Hubert Lacroix, who has been CEO since 2008.
Tait has a long and successful track record in film, television and digital-content in Canada and beyond. She was a co-founder and has been president of independent content producer Duopoly for 15 years and in 2006, she also founded iThentic, an…
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OTTAWA – The Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology last week announced a work plan under which it will conduct the statutorily mandated review of the Copyright Act (it’s required every five years).
The committee will conduct the review in three phases and hear testimony from:
Witnesses representing specific sectors of activity, including publishing, visual arts, software and telecommunications (phase I);
Witnesses representing a range of stakeholders involved in multiple sectors of activity, such as Indigenous communities and various interest groups (phase II); and
Legal experts, including individual lawyers and academics, along with professional associations (phase III).
The Committee will also travel…
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TORONTO – The Canada Media Fund (CMF) has set its 2018-2019 program budget at $352 million, up $2.3 million from last fiscal year due in part to a “stable contribution” from the federal government announced last month in Budget 2018.
The CMF program budget is supported by revenue estimates for the coming year based on ongoing and new contributions from the Government of Canada; Canada’s cable, satellite and IPTV distributors; and recoupment and repayment revenues from funded productions. This year’s budget reflects the Feds’ contribution with the addition of a top-up of up to $15M to offset declining contributions…
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And what about the Radiocom Act?
THE 2017 BUDGET ANNOUNCED the following legislative review.
“To ensure that Canadians continue to benefit from an open and innovative Internet, the Government proposes to review and modernize the Broadcasting Act and Telecommunications Act.
In this review, the Government will look to examine issues such as telecommunications and content creation in the digital age, net neutrality and cultural diversity, and how to strengthen the future of Canadian media and Canadian content creation.”
The government is to be commended for conducting a review of the broadcasting legislation and telecommunications given that the present legislation stems from the 1980’s…
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