* Radio-Canada has announced Mario Clement, programming director with Tele-Quebec, has joined SRC as director-general of programming. The post had been held on an interim basis by Suzanne Laverdiere, director-general, acquisitions and independent production. Clement is credited with spearheading major ratings improvements at Tele-Quebec over the past three years.

Major changes in SRC’s on-air news personnel have also been announced.

Gilles Gougeon will anchor the 10 p.m. evening newscast Le Telejournal/Le Point, starting this fall. He replaces Stephan Bureau, who will leave the public network to develop an extended factual series with independent producer Rozon Films.

Simon Durivage will anchor SRC’s 6 p.m. newscast Montreal ce soir. Michaelle Jean has been reassigned to the midday l’Heure du midi newscast.

* Global Television has appointed award-winning journalist Stephanie Smyth as news director for Global Toronto. Smyth has spent the last 10 years in various positions at Toronto’s 680News, becoming news director in 1999. She has been in the industry for 15 years, and has been an on-air reporter, newscast anchor and assignment editor.

* Jamie Brown, a Canadian ex-pat producer living in the U.K., has resigned from the board of directors at Vancouver’s Peace Arch Entertainment. Brown, president of the U.K.’s Studio Eight Productions, left to make room for new directors yet to be named.

* Laura Grieco has joined B.C.’s Knowledge Network as a unit manager in the programming department. Formerly, she was an independent producer and analyst at B.C. Film.

* Animation veteran Joseph Gilland has joined Bardel Entertainment’s crew on the series Silverwing as special effects supervisor in Vancouver. Previously, Gilland headed up the Walt Disney feature animation EFX department in Florida for the features Lilo and Stitch and Tarzan.

* Angela Wilkins has been appointed to the sales and marketing department at Vancouver’s Post Modern Sound. Previously, she was a project coordinator with Rainmaker Digital Pictures.

* Karen Cameron has been named film commissioner in Prince George, BC, her hometown. Previously, she was a project manager at Crescent Entertainment in Vancouver and was a location marketer at Manitoba Film & Sound.

* Stephen Fraser has launched Fraser-Entertainment Law, a law firm specializing in the film, television, music, Internet and multimedia industry. Fraser was formerly with Toronto’s Stohn Abramovitch. Prior to his 2001 return to Canada, Fraser practised law in New York, working with Darby & Darby, a law firm specializing in entertainment, new media and technology licensing.