"The Canada Council is looking awfully healthy these days ..." 
Good news for Canadians.  
"The NEA is one of 19 federal agencies that Donald Trump is simply proposing to disappear."
Bad news for Canadians.
Think not?  

For millions of us, this phrase--or one like it--is very, very familiar:  "This program is funded, in part, by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts..." as heard at the beginning of favourite TV shows on...PBS. You know the type; the kind of shows that many Canadians wish the CBC would produce...