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Art Is Not A Luxury ~ Stephen Harper Cuts Cultural Funding By $20 Million
Public Reaction to Stephen Harper Cuts Cultural Funding By $20 Million
My hat goes off to the person or persons who have put together the following vignettes. The following episodes of Canadian Parliament and failing policies exemplify in Swiftian verse what in fact is wrong with our leadership. Harper seems to have followed the path of the Bush. Enjoy...
Stephen Harper Redefines Canadian Culture Simply By Omission
Stephen Harper Redefines Canadian Culture
Now, if you were to vote in an upcoming election, who would you choose to tie our shoes?
Dumbing Down of America ~ Is Harper Following A Bush Strategy?
According to a 2001-02 Statistics Canada report, with an investment of $6.8 billion from three levels of government, the arts and culture sector directly employed 740,000 people and generated $26 billion for the economy. The arts and culture sector employs as many people as the combined sectors of agriculture, forestry, fishing, mining, oil, gas and utilities...
Is Canadian Culture Important? Harper Says NO
http://www.greenparty.ca/en/node/66
Related Funding Offsets ~ Build A Strong Defense For Controlling The Populace
Big Brother in action, will cut funding to culture in lieu of increases in military spending. "The money has to come from somewhere!" was the result inaction of Stephen Harper when approached by media as to his reasoning for cutting spending in cultural sectors by $20 Million. And the irony is that the intended funding will not go to where it is needed most, "The Conservative government's pledge for a stable funding program for the Canadian military will actually result in less money for the cash-strapped Forces because of inflation," a Senate committee report says.
Tories' military funding plan means 'guaranteed decreases': Senate report
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/0
Dion chastises Harper over cuts to arts funding~ 'Need to be stimulating programs' Also criticizes PM for election talk
http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/n
Stephen Harper’s Conservative Government has axed the following programs over the course of the past two weeks:
* PromArt, a grant program supporting foreign travel for artists ($4.7 million)
* Canadian Memory Fund, which gives federal agencies money to digitize collections and mount them online ($11.7 million)
* Culture.ca Web portal ($3.8 million)
* Canadian Cultural Observatory ($560,000)
* Research and Development component of Canadian Culture Online ($5.64-million)
* Canadian Independent Film and Video Fund ($1.5 million)
* Audio Visual Trust ($300,000)
* National Training Program for the Film and Video Sector ($2.5 million)
* Trade Routes, supporting international tours by Canadian performers ($7.8 million)
* Northern Distribution Program, which distributes the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network signal to 96 Northern communities. ($2.1 million)
Culture.ca has been discontinued since April 1st, 2008.
http://www.culture.ca/
$50 million Slash in Cultural Funding ~ Pornography of Power Making Whores of Us All (Ultimate Power Corrupts Ultimately); Election Call = Disaster Capitali$m (Just To Keep You Guessing...)
It has been revealed that three programs benefitting the film, television and music industries, totalling $4.3 million, will end as of next March. These join PromArt and Trade Routes ($4.7 million and $9 million respectively), travel subsidy programs whose demise has been reported over the past week. There are also fears for the $27.1 million Canadian Arts and Heritage Sustainability Program, which is designed to help arts and heritage groups find their financial footing. Neither Minister of Canadian Heritage Josee Verner nor her department responded to requests for interviews Thursday. Finally, Radio-Canada reported that the $4.7 million New Media Research Networks Fund will be cut, bringing the seven-day total of programs either cut by the Conservatives or in apparent jeopardy to $49.8 million. "If it's not short-term electoral strategy, what the hell is it?" wondered Alain Pineau of the Canadian Conference of the Arts. "Is it an error in judgment? Is it a political gamble? I don't know. But from a purely economic sense and a governance sense, we cannot understand - unless they have replacement programs."
Tories may slash $50 million in arts funding
http://www.canada.com/richmondnews/feat
Stephen Harper ~ Making Soldiers and Prostitutes of Us All
Poverty of the Soul ~ Canada Without Culture
http://putyourendtowar.livejournal.c
Do Artists Make Good Sports? ~ After Having $40 Million Art Funding Stripped, Will Artists Be Able To Participate in the Homeless Olympics?
More than $40-million in savings the federal government will reap from controversial cuts to arts and culture funding will be redirected to the Vancouver Olympic torch relay and two other programs, exacerbating fears that replacement initiatives are not in the cards. According to the budget, Heritage planned $61.9-million in cuts between February, 2008, and the end of the 2010-2011 fiscal year as part of its ongoing strategic review. Those funds, which include the trimmed arts and culture spending, will instead be used to pay for the $24.5-million torch relays and to provide $48-million to the Road to Excellence over three years. A supposed lack of funding for athletes surfaced as a hot topic when Canadians failed to win any medals in the first week of the Beijing Olympics.
Ottawa to shift arts funds to Olympic programs
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/serv
Homeless Olympics ~ Vancouver Canada
http://putyourendtowar.livejournal.c
Stephen Harper with Daughter Rachel
Stephen Harper, working hard to make porn stars out of all of us...
.
My hat goes off to the person or persons who have put together the following vignettes. The following episodes of Canadian Parliament and failing policies exemplify in Swiftian verse what in fact is wrong with our leadership. Harper seems to have followed the path of the Bush. Enjoy...
Stephen Harper Redefines Canadian Culture Simply By Omission
Stephen Harper Redefines Canadian Culture
Now, if you were to vote in an upcoming election, who would you choose to tie our shoes?
Dumbing Down of America ~ Is Harper Following A Bush Strategy?
According to a 2001-02 Statistics Canada report, with an investment of $6.8 billion from three levels of government, the arts and culture sector directly employed 740,000 people and generated $26 billion for the economy. The arts and culture sector employs as many people as the combined sectors of agriculture, forestry, fishing, mining, oil, gas and utilities...
Is Canadian Culture Important? Harper Says NO
http://www.greenparty.ca/en/node/66
Related Funding Offsets ~ Build A Strong Defense For Controlling The Populace
Big Brother in action, will cut funding to culture in lieu of increases in military spending. "The money has to come from somewhere!" was the result inaction of Stephen Harper when approached by media as to his reasoning for cutting spending in cultural sectors by $20 Million. And the irony is that the intended funding will not go to where it is needed most, "The Conservative government's pledge for a stable funding program for the Canadian military will actually result in less money for the cash-strapped Forces because of inflation," a Senate committee report says.
Tories' military funding plan means 'guaranteed decreases': Senate report
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/0
Dion chastises Harper over cuts to arts funding~ 'Need to be stimulating programs' Also criticizes PM for election talk
http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/n
Stephen Harper’s Conservative Government has axed the following programs over the course of the past two weeks:
* PromArt, a grant program supporting foreign travel for artists ($4.7 million)
* Canadian Memory Fund, which gives federal agencies money to digitize collections and mount them online ($11.7 million)
* Culture.ca Web portal ($3.8 million)
* Canadian Cultural Observatory ($560,000)
* Research and Development component of Canadian Culture Online ($5.64-million)
* Canadian Independent Film and Video Fund ($1.5 million)
* Audio Visual Trust ($300,000)
* National Training Program for the Film and Video Sector ($2.5 million)
* Trade Routes, supporting international tours by Canadian performers ($7.8 million)
* Northern Distribution Program, which distributes the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network signal to 96 Northern communities. ($2.1 million)
Culture.ca has been discontinued since April 1st, 2008.
http://www.culture.ca/
$50 million Slash in Cultural Funding ~ Pornography of Power Making Whores of Us All (Ultimate Power Corrupts Ultimately); Election Call = Disaster Capitali$m (Just To Keep You Guessing...)
It has been revealed that three programs benefitting the film, television and music industries, totalling $4.3 million, will end as of next March. These join PromArt and Trade Routes ($4.7 million and $9 million respectively), travel subsidy programs whose demise has been reported over the past week. There are also fears for the $27.1 million Canadian Arts and Heritage Sustainability Program, which is designed to help arts and heritage groups find their financial footing. Neither Minister of Canadian Heritage Josee Verner nor her department responded to requests for interviews Thursday. Finally, Radio-Canada reported that the $4.7 million New Media Research Networks Fund will be cut, bringing the seven-day total of programs either cut by the Conservatives or in apparent jeopardy to $49.8 million. "If it's not short-term electoral strategy, what the hell is it?" wondered Alain Pineau of the Canadian Conference of the Arts. "Is it an error in judgment? Is it a political gamble? I don't know. But from a purely economic sense and a governance sense, we cannot understand - unless they have replacement programs."
Tories may slash $50 million in arts funding
http://www.canada.com/richmondnews/feat
Stephen Harper ~ Making Soldiers and Prostitutes of Us All
Poverty of the Soul ~ Canada Without Culture
http://putyourendtowar.livejournal.c
Do Artists Make Good Sports? ~ After Having $40 Million Art Funding Stripped, Will Artists Be Able To Participate in the Homeless Olympics?
More than $40-million in savings the federal government will reap from controversial cuts to arts and culture funding will be redirected to the Vancouver Olympic torch relay and two other programs, exacerbating fears that replacement initiatives are not in the cards. According to the budget, Heritage planned $61.9-million in cuts between February, 2008, and the end of the 2010-2011 fiscal year as part of its ongoing strategic review. Those funds, which include the trimmed arts and culture spending, will instead be used to pay for the $24.5-million torch relays and to provide $48-million to the Road to Excellence over three years. A supposed lack of funding for athletes surfaced as a hot topic when Canadians failed to win any medals in the first week of the Beijing Olympics.
Ottawa to shift arts funds to Olympic programs
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/serv
Homeless Olympics ~ Vancouver Canada
http://putyourendtowar.livejournal.c
Stephen Harper with Daughter Rachel
Stephen Harper, working hard to make porn stars out of all of us...
.
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