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THE CANADIAN STATESMAN, NOVEMBER 26, 2003 PAGE A3 www.durhamregion.com Oda recognized for role in broadcast industry Orono woman inducted into Broadcast Hall of Fame BY DANIELLE MILLEY Staff Writer ORONO - The woman who helped bring diversity and gender gender equality to Canadian broad- easting has been inducted into the Canadian Association of Broadcaster's Broadcast Hall of Fame. Beverley Oda of Orono was involved with the creation of the lust ethnic television station in Canada and chaired a task force that reviewed gender portrayal portrayal in broadcasting. "Bev, to my mind, is someone someone who has made a very unique and significant contribution contribution to our broadcast industry in Canada," said Sarah Crawford, the vice-president of public affairs affairs CHUM Television. Ms. Crawford nominated Ms. Oda for the honour. "Bev was really the first senior senior woman who made an impression impression on me when f started in this industry," she said. Ms. Crawford first met Ms. Oda at the Canadian Radio, Television and Telecommunications Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) hearings she was chairing on reviewing the role of women in the industry. Although they have never worked together, Ms. Crawford saw Ms. Oda as a role model - a role she is surprised to fill. "I've always seen others as my teachers and my mentors," Ms. Oda said. "So I was quite shocked and surprised (to be nominated). "I was very proud that my peers...the industry, thought I had made a contribution. It was the recognition of contributing."1 contributing." 1 Ms. Oda's broadcasting career career started at TVO in 1973 when she went in search of something new. She had spent fi^e years teaching in her liome- t(|wn of Mississauga after grad-p: miting from the University of Ron Pietroniro/ Statesman photo Bev Oda of Orono, a new inductee to the Broadcaster's Broadcast Hall of Fame, with her dogs Sara, left, and Skye. Toronto. After TVO she moved on to Rogers Cable. In 1976 she joined Multilingual Television Ltd., which produced ethnic programming for City TV. In 1978 she worked with Multilingual Television to file for the first ethnic TV station, which happened three years later with the creation of Canada's Canada's First Multilingual Television Television (CFMT) now OMNI 1. "I was very lucky because I was a part of something that was a first for the world," she said. "Because it was early in my career it meant I learned broadcasting under a unique set of circumstances." Ms. Oda also worked at the Global Television Network, CTV and spent time as an independent independent producer and consultant. consultant. In 1987 she was appointed to the CRTC. She calls her time there an honour. "My time at the CRTC, it was a privileged experience because because you're-^one > of a small group of people who are given the responsibility to regulate broadcasting and telecommunications telecommunications in Canada," she said. Her work on the gender portrayal portrayal task force is something she is proud of and because of it there are more women on screen and behind the scenes in decision-making roles. Ms. Oda has also been involved involved in several industry boards throughout the years including including Canadian Women in Communication, the Canadian Film Institute and Media Awareness Network. She is also involved in her community; she moved to Orono eight years ago. Even though she retired in 1999, Ms. Oda has remained involved involved in the industry as co- chairman of the CAB cultural diversity task force, chairman of the community advisory board of CJNT-TV Montreal and as a member of the Rogers Cable and Documentary Fund board. "She's one of these people who. seems to. have'unending energy," Ms. Crawford said. mm Tswmsm m> m ANOTHER NEW/ YE1RS1 ci RESOLUTION? January 2003, Tanya decided « that this year she would finally do it! 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The guest list includes Liberals Lou Rinaldi of Northumberland and Wayne Arthurs of Pickering-Ajax- Uxbridge. Progressive Conservative Conservative MPPs expected include Jim Flaherty of Whitby-Ajax, Jerry Ouellette of Oshawa, and Durham's John O'Toole. Kim Cearns, political action officer of the north Durham chapter of the Registered Nurses Nurses Association of Ontario, believes believes nurses need to become politically active if they want to sec change. "We have issues of staffing shortages and we need to deal with that and how to better utilize utilize what we have available," she said, adding questions were sent to guests to ensure main concerns would be addressed. Laurie Clune, chapter president president for Durham Northumberland, Northumberland, says main concerns include include primary health care, lack of primary resources in Durham and underutilization of nurse practitioners who could fill the void of doctors. "There's also concern about privatization schemes, but Liberal Liberal candidates have already said no to privatization of MRIs and that sort of thing," she said. She says the Durham chapter chapter wants to see universal health care and equality in the system. "The role of nurses in the region region is set up for potential layoffs," layoffs," she said. "We have an aging workforce and casualiza- tion is common." Casualization means many nurses are hired on a casual basis. They are used to fill voids but aren't provided pensions pensions or sick benefits because they're considered part-time staff. Ms. Clune says the system looks good on paper until something like SARS comes along and casual nurses who normally divide their schedules between many hospitals are prevented from doing so because because cross-staffing has the potential potential to transfer disease. 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