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Canada Council Faces Controversy

Recent media controversy surrounding Bubbles Galore, a film by Cynthia Roberts, and Monstrance, an installation by photographer Diana Thorneycroft, has contributed to a backlash against public arts funding by critics decrying the perceived waste of tax dollars. Some journalists have gone so far as to call for the abolition of the Canada Council for the Arts.

 

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