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Oil-huile 24" x 36"  -  04/12/2006

          
             
 
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Jake Rupert, The Ottawa Citizen

Published: Friday, January 25, 2008

Commission's board backs motion to bring building to capital area

Former National Gallery of Canada director Shirley Thomson said the government's wish to have the gallery housed in a building owned or controlled by the private sector is "a national embarrassment that makes us look like peasants on the international scene."

  
             
 

HARPER'S ART POLICY PAINTS A BAD PICTURE FOR COUNTRY

The Ottawa Citizen

January 26, 2008

Hamilton Southam, the man who gave Canada a National Arts Centre on the banks of Ottawa's Rideau Canal, said it best. During his long battle to bring the NAC into existence, he always contended that a nation like Canada deserved a capital city worthy of the nation -- and to him, that included a vibrant cultural component.

      

LE MUSEE DU PORTRAIT DOIT RESTER A OTTAWA

Le Droit, le 15 déc 2007.

Quand on déménage, ça coûte plus cher... et ce l'est encore davantage quand il s'agit d'un musée. Des députés de la région d'Ottawa qui siègent dans l'opposition ont ainsi réagi à un nouvel élément d'information dans le dossier du Musée du portrait du Canada.

 
             
 

PORTRAIT GALLERY NOT MOVING TO CALGARY, MP CONFIRMS

The Calgary Herald and theOttawa Citizen

Saturday, June 30, 2007

      

 

PORTRAIT GALLERY MOVE TO COST $2.5M/YEAR; OPERATING EXPENSES WILL GO UP BY MILLIONS IF FACILITY IS RELOCATED OUTSIDE OTTAWA: memo

The Ottawa Citizen; December 12, 2007.

  
             
 

PORTRAIT OF A COUNTRY

Bernard Poulin, Citizen Special

Wednesday, December 27, 2006       

      

KEEP MUSEUMS HERE

The Ottawa Citizen, Friday, June 22, 2007

  
             
  NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY: IT'S PORK BARREL POLITICS
The Globe and Mail
December 6, 2006
Documents and leaks to an Ottawa MP point to the gallery being built in Calgary, home to the Prime Minister's riding, and partly funded by EnCana
       GALLERY PLAN A POTENTIAL DISASTER: EXPERTS FEAR WORKS WILL BE DAMAGED IN TRANSIT IF PORTRAIT GALLERY IS LOCATED IN CALGARY
The Ottawa Citizen
December 9, 2006
Queen Victoria was simply too fragile to make the move. The year was 1997, not 1887. The National Archives, as it used to be called, was transporting its art and artifacts a few kilometres from its Wellington Street headquarters in Ottawa to a new, $60-million storage facility in Gatineau.
  
             
  ENERGRY GIANT'S GALLERY DEAL APPEARS PICTURE PERFECT: MIXED REACTION GREETS RUMOUR OF PORTRAIT GALLERY MOVE TO CALGARY
The Ottawa Citizen
December 6, 2006
A deal between the federal government and energy giant EnCana to move the Portrait Gallery of Canada to Calgary from Ottawa is expected to be announced within a few weeks.
       PM PORTRAITS BECOMING A NATIONAL SECRET?
The Ottawa Sun
December 3, 2006
The fate of the Portrait Gallery of Canada is now a state secret. The final decision on the future of the $44.6-million project -- with an expected $5 million annual operating cost -- is now in the hands of Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
  
             
          MOVING PICTURE? PORTRAIT GALLERY MAY GO TO CALGARY
The Ottawa Sun
December 5, 2006
Calgary will be the new home of the Portrait Gallery of Canada, according to a mysterious e-mail received by Ottawa Centre NDP MP Paul Dewar.