Regina’s Tatiana Maslany celebrates Canada’s Walk of Fame award

In an emotional acceptance, Tatiana Maslany unveiled her Canada’s Walk of Fame Hometown Star to a group of friends, family, and supporters.

“It’s just very emotional for me,” she said. “It’s an incredible honour to be in this room with so many people I grew up with, and who in so many ways raised me.”

The Regina-born actress behind leading roles in television shows like She-Hulk: Attorney at Law and Orphan Black was inducted into Canada’s Walk of Fame in 2022.

The Hometown Stars event allowed the actress to celebrate the induction in Regina at the Hotel Saskatchewan.

Maslany said it was overwhelming to be in the room with people she hadn’t seen in 20 years.

One of them being her high school drama teacher, Dan MacDonald.

“What’s lovely is to reconnect with Tat, and just see how she is the same kid she was in high school,” MacDonald said.

He said it is amazing to see her grow and change but also to see her stay passionate about everything she does.

Saskatchewan Party pronoun policy an “overreach”

Each Walk of Fame inductee gets $10,000 to donate to a charity or cause of their choice. Maslany chose to send the money to Lulu’s Lodge, a shelter space designed to help 2SLGBTQIA+ youth.

Maslany called the provincial government’s Parents’ Bill of Right, which requires parental consent for name and pronoun changes for students under 16 in schools, “absurd.”

“How a child identifies, how a child knows themselves to be, that isn’t their parent’s place,” Maslany said. “It’s an overreach on the provincial government to legislate that.”

Shawn Fraser, CEO of the John Howard Society of Saskatchewan, the group that oversees Lulu’s Lodge, said he was grateful for the donation.

“We are so honoured, this is really going to have a big impact,” he said. “$10,000 is a lot of money.”

Fraser said the money will go to support frontline operations at Lulu’s Lodge.

“We are just very grateful, what a happy day, what a lovely person, and just a great thing for the city,” Fraser said.

In her acceptance speech, Maslany also called for a ceasefire in the Israeli and Palestinian war.

“I couldn’t stand up there as a Canadian flanked by Mounties without speaking to that,” she said.