{"id":223528,"date":"2019-07-19T02:19:56","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T06:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=223528"},"modified":"2019-07-19T02:19:56","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T06:19:56","slug":"new-inductees-to-canadas-walk-of-fame-include-coombs-arnett-klassen-gehry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/07\/19\/new-inductees-to-canadas-walk-of-fame-include-coombs-arnett-klassen-gehry\/","title":{"rendered":"New inductees to Canada&#8217;s Walk of Fame include Coombs, Arnett, Klassen, Gehry"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><script async=\"1\" defer=\"1\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&amp;version=v3.3\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CWOFame\/photos\/a.10150503719825405\/10162153266670405\/?type=3&amp;theater\" data-width=\"750\">\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CWOFame\/photos\/a.10150503719825405\/10162153266670405\/?type=3\" class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\">\n<p>Announced! Congratulations to our 2019 Canada&#039;s Walk of Fame Inductees Triumph, Will Arnett, Jim Treliving, Mr. Dressup,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CWOFame\/\">Canada&#039;s Walk of Fame<\/a> on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CWOFame\/photos\/a.10150503719825405\/10162153266670405\/?type=3\">Thursday, July 18, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px\">TORONTO \u2014 The late \u201cMr. Dressup\u201d children&#8217;s entertainer Ernie Coombs, actor Will Arnett, and Olympic speedskater Cindy Klassen are among the new inductees to Canada&#8217;s Walk of Fame.<\/span>Organizers announced the class of 2019 Thursday evening, noting two more inductees will be revealed at a later date.<\/p>\n<p>Other names on this year&#8217;s list include rock band Triumph, architect Frank Gehry, and Hockey Hall of Famer Mark Messier.<\/p>\n<p>The new inductees also include \u201cDragons&#8217; Den\u201d entrepreneur and pizza-chain mogul Jim Treliving, and the late physician and basketball inventor Dr. James Naismith.<\/p>\n<p>The annual walk of fame event honours accomplishments in fields including music, sports, film and television, literary, visual and performing arts, science, innovation, philanthropy and social justice.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s inductions will take place at the Canada&#8217;s Walk of Fame Awards Show at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre on Nov. 23.<\/p>\n<p>The show will broadcast in December on CTV.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are building a much more robust national platform to shine a bright light on these extraordinary Canadians who join the amazing inductees of the past 20 years,\u201d Jeffrey Latimer, CEO of Canada&#8217;s Walk of Fame, said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Announced! Congratulations to our 2019 Canada&#039;s Walk of Fame Inductees Triumph, Will Arnett, Jim Treliving, Mr. Dressup,&#8230; Posted by Canada&#039;s &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":223530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-hollywood","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223528"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":223532,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223528\/revisions\/223532"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}