Canada’s new Conservative government has named Beverley Oda, the first Japanese Canadian elected to parliament as the country’s new minister of culture. “In addition to working at Global Television and CTV, Oda helped launch Canada’s First Multilingual Television station (CFMT), which is now Omni 1. A winner of the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal, Oda was also inducted into Canada’s Broadcast Hall of Fame in 2003.”