Arkells, late CBC journalist Barbara Frum among 2022 inductees to Canada’s Walk of Fame | 24CA News
Canadian band Arkells and late CBC journalist Barbara Frum are amongst this 12 months’s inductees to Canada’s Walk of Fame.
Former athlete and politician Lionel Pretoria Conacher, award-winning recording artist and Canadian Music Hall of Fame inductee Deborah Cox, music video director Julien Christian Lutz a.ok.a. Director X and the Just For Laughs Group have been additionally introduced as 2022 inductees this week.
The listing of inductees additionally consists of She-Hulk and Orphan Black actress Tatiana Maslany; Heather Reisman, founder, chair and CEO of Indigo Inc.; philanthropist, James Temerty; and Canadian rock band The Tragically Hip.
Canada’s Walk of Fame is a nationwide not-for-profit group that is grown from honouring inductees with engraved sidewalk stars in Toronto’s Entertainment District to a yearlong nationwide sequence of applications and celebrations.
The Arkells — broadly thought-about one of the passionate, exuberant and in-demand dwell bands working at this time — obtained the Allan Slaight Music Impact Honour award. The group began on Jan. 1, 2004 in Hamilton, Ont.
Barbara Frum was one in every of Canada’s most revered and influential journalists. Raised in Niagara Falls, Ont., she started her profession in journalism as a contract author and commentator for CBC radio quickly after graduating from the University of Toronto.
She died in 1992 of power leukemia. She was 54. Her profession spanned a long time on the CBC, and her legacy continues because the voice that formed As It Happens.
‘An superb individual’
Retired CBC journalist Peter Mansbridge says Canada’s Walk of Fame is an efficient event to have fun individuals who have made a distinction — together with Frum, with whom he shared the hour of The National and The Journal.
“We did a lot of big shows together, everything from royal weddings to the repatriation of the constitution in 1982,” he recalled.
“She was the consummate professional, an amazing person, not only as a friend but as a journalist.
“We all realized from her and I feel it is nice that she’s being honoured tonight. You may argue it has taken too lengthy to do that for her however I’m actually joyful that I’m with the ability to be part of it,” Mansbridge added.
Each year, Canada’s Walk of Fame celebrates Canadian excellence and achievement in the areas of arts and entertainment; entrepreneurship and philanthropy; humanitarianism; science, technology and innovation; and sports and athletics.
Walk of Fame CEO Jeffrey Latimer says their mission has moved from one of just celebrating celebrities, to one of celebrating greatness, finding ways to tell their stories and unpacking their incredible journey to inspire others.
“Why did Barbara Frum change the face of broadcasting, what was behind that unbelievable life?” Latimer said.
“How did Lionel Conacher really win at 5 sports activities, what was his life about? Just for Laughs — these are superb organizations, superb individuals.”
