* Johanne St-Arnauld has been named Telefilm Canada’s interim executive director. St-Arnauld replaces Francois Macerola, whose mandate ended July 3.

St-Arnauld has been with Telefilm since 1998, first as a distribution analyst, then senior analyst – coproductions, and since March 2000, as director, international relations.

Telefilm has also announced the appointment of Elizabeth Friesen as acting director – Canadian operations. Friesen, until now director – Western region, assumes her new duties July 13, working from the agency’s Vancouver office. She takes over from Peter Katadotis, who is leaving Telefilm after 13 years as director of Canadian operations.

* Lib Gibson, former president and CEO of Globe Interactive, has been appointed president and CEO of Bell Globemedia Interactive.

All interactive new media initiatives across the divisions of the company will be consolidated and will report to Gibson.

Bell Globemedia Interactive includes Sympatico-Lycos, globeandmail.com, tsn.ca, workopolis.com, globeinvestor.com, globemegawheels.com, toronto.com, vancouverplus.ca, calgaryplus.ca, edmontonplus.ca, ottawaplus.ca, montrealplus.ca and quebecplus.ca, as well as companion websites for ROBTv, CTV News and Discovery Channel Canada.

Prior to joining Globe Interactive, Gibson played a key role in the launch and development of Sympatico Internet Services.

Elizabeth Duffy-MacLean moves from VP of strategic and regulatory affairs at CTV to become group VP, regulatory affairs and policy strategy at Bell Globemedia. Duffy-MacLean has been around the CTV family awhile, having held the post of director, business affairs at NetStar Communications. She serves on numerous boards, including Canal Evasion, Canadian Women in Communications, the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council and the Canadian Association of Broadcasters’ specialty board.

* Tele-Quebec president and director-general Doris Girard has left the network to become deputy minister of Culture and Communications with the Government of Quebec. Girard, former head of the French Program at the National Film Board, replaces veteran civil servant Adelard Guillemette, who is retiring.

Earlier, Girard had announced two senior Tele-Quebec nominations. Daniel Bienvenue, former general manager of technical operations at CFCF-TV, was named director-general, production and technologies. Claude Plante was named the network’s director of communications and marketing. Prior to joining Tele-Quebec earlier this year, Plante served as communications director for former premier Lucien Bouchard.

* Beverley Kirshenblatt has been appointed VP of television for the Canadian Association of Broadcasters. Kirshenblatt joins the CAB from the Canadian Cable Television Association, where she most recently served as senior counsel.

* Cogeco Cable president and CEO Louis Audet has named company veteran Jacques Begin to the post of VP special projects and Jules Grenier to the position of VP/GM of the Quebec division.

* Trevor Hodgson, most recently a production analyst at funding agency British Columbia Film, has joined Vancouver-based Paperny Films as a business affairs manager. Previously, Hodgson was co-executive producer of My Father’s Angel and coproducer of Touched, both made by Vancouver’s Ranfilm Productions.

* Broadcast journalist Valerie Pringle has been named to host and develop a signature series for CTV’s new digital travel channel scheduled to launch in September. She will also work on documentary projects for Discovery Channel and, through September and October, will cohost Discovery’s daily science newsmagazine, @discovery.ca.

Pringle signed off as co-anchor of CTV’s Canada AM on July 6 after almost nine years with the program.

* Sharon Lewis (no relation to Avi) has been appointed the new host of CBC Newsworld’s counterspin.

Lewis, who will begin her on-air duties with the launch of the show’s new season in September, is perhaps best known for her title role in Clement Virgo’s Rude.

* Leslie Roberts, news director and chief anchor for Global Television in Quebec, is joining Beverly Thomson on the Global news desk in Ontario this fall to co-anchor the flagship, Toronto-based, supper-hour newscast, as well as Global’s 11 p.m. newscast.

* Women in Film & Video Vancouver has elected its new board. Actor/writer Jacqueline Samuda is president, writer/script analyst/ producer Katharine Montagu is VP and Gillian Pearson, manager at visual effects company Lost Boys, is the new treasurer. Writer Kate Tremills is secretary and Carrie Chase, who heads up CIBC’s production funding department, is past president.

* A new Telecine team has joined the ranks of Vancouver’s Northwest Imaging & FX. Industry veteran Tom Metzger will move from Astral in Montreal to be a senior colorist. He is currently color correcting the second season of Andromeda. Frank Robinson, formerly of Seattle’s Pinnacle Studios; Australian import Claudio Sepulveda, formerly of Sydney’s Digital Pictures; and Lorne Meiss, formerly of Vancouver’s Finale Editworks, will also be colorists working with Northwest’s URSA Diamond and Millennium HD suites.