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Pierre Arpin has been appointed to the Canadian Cultural Property Export Review Board. Since 2003, Arpin has been president of the Association of Art Museum Directors, and has served at various art galleries over the years.

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D-Box sets up high profile advisory committee
D-Box Technology Inc. has announced the creation of an advisory committee comprised of: Leon F. Gosselin, president and CEO of Axcan Pharma Inc.; Peter Morand, president and CEO of the Canadian Science and Technology Growth Fund Inc.; and Edward Jung, co-founder of Intellectual Ventures. This committee is expected to help accelerate D-Box’s growth in the $11-billion home theatre equipment market in North America.

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Magnet Games Marketing Inc., a company that creates text-messaging-based marketing campaigns and electronic games, is relocating to Charlottetown PE where it’s moving into the Atlantic Technology Centre (ATC), run by Technology PEI (TechPEI)

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The president of the struggling Saskatchewan New Media Developers Association (SNMDA) says joining a national effort to preserve Telefilm Canada funding for interactive content is just one part of an effort to help kickstart the province’s new media sector. The body was recently a signatory to a national letter to Canadian Heritage minister Hélène Chalifour Scherrer asking for funding to be increased for the Canada New Media Fund (see Newsmakers). The SNMDA’s signature on the letter could open doors to greater national involvement, says head Deborah Black.

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