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• The Canada Media Fund has tapped youth marketing expert Max Valiquette to fill the seventh and final seat on the revamped agency’s board of directors for 2009/10. The founder and president of Toronto marketing firm Youthography was put forth as a nominee by the Canadian Coalition for Cultural Expression, which is responsible for five nominees overall, while the Department of Canadian Heritage named two.

+ CBS has followed CTV’s lead and renewed Flashpoint for another cycle. The latest vote of confidence for the Canadian cop drama sees CBS order 13 more episodes from Pink Sky Entertainment and Avamar Entertainment. In its second season on CBS, Flashpoint won its Friday night 9 p.m. slot, averaging 9.55 million viewers, or a 2.1/6 share in adults 18-49.

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When Shawn Bailey speaks at this month’s GameON: Finance event in Toronto, he will impress upon the games industry crowd that it really is a big world out there, and that his multi-platform company is well-positioned to take advantage.

Over 12,000 executives made the pilgrimage to MIPCOM in Cannes this year, which is a good number considering society is on the verge of collapse. It’s too early to know how much business they did – but there’s no question the market threw up some interesting stories.

Actor-turned-breakout-writer/director Peter Stebbings is sitting across the table from me at Lettieri Espresso Bar in Toronto’s Annex neighborhood. He’s backlit, eating a panini, drinking a smoothie and, at 38, looking every bit the part of James Dean – monochromatic golden skin and dusty brown hair, a sharp-cut jaw, intense eyes and an ever-creased forehead. His shoulders are perfectly square, his T-shirt perfectly white and his leather jacket perfectly worn to cap off the throwback image of a rebellious character actor from another era.

The Canadian Cinema Editors – the 18-month-old association for Canada’s editing community – held a post-production supervisor panel at the end of September in Toronto at Deluxe, aiming to educate producers, editors, assistants and students about the supervisor’s role. The 70-plus attendees heard the six panelists weigh in on everything from working relationships to the Red Camera.

An endangered locations library will stay in business for at least another year, following an injection of cash from the Ontario branch of the Directors Guild of Canada.

Quebec comedy screens in Ottawa upon nearing $11 million line at the box office