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Q with Tom Power
Five days a week, Tom Power brings you candid conversations with the artists shaping our culture. Whether he’s chatting with A-listers or rising stars, his disarming warmth and meticulous research always gets below the surface, bringing us deeper into the art and lives of today's most compelling mus...
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Some run away and join the circus. Carisa Hendrix built her own
Carisa Hendrix a magician, comedian, fire eater, and the creative force behind the character Lucy Darling, a glamorous socialite who’s become an inter...
Remembering Oliver Jones, a Canadian jazz legend
Oliver Jones died this week at the age of 91. In 2024, Tom Power visited the Canadian jazz legend at his home in Montreal to talk about his legacy in...
Acting like a maniac never gets old for Weird Al
Weird Al Yankovic is a pop culture icon known around the world for his parodies of mega-hits by artists like Madonna, Taylor Swift, and Michael Jackso...
Why this director tapped into feminine energy for his new film
For his latest film, Canadian director Clement Virgo adapted the true story of a teenage girl who escapes the Antebellum South into an Afrofuturist fa...
Ron Funches on his post-Traitors autism diagnosis
Ron Funches has built a career turning the things that once made him feel different into his greatest strengths. Once bullied in school for his soft a...
Rebecca Northan wants you to give yourself permission to play
As an actor and theatre director, Rebecca Northan is all about being alive in the moment. She’s known for inviting the audience into her creative proc...
Luke Wilson reflects on his comedic chemistry with Will Ferrell
Luke Wilson stars in the new Netflix TV series, The Hawk, where he and Will Ferrell play rival pro-golfers. When the two work together, Will usually l...
How this artist created the “moccasin gaze” genre
After blending traditional Indigenous perspectives with shoegaze music to create the unique “moccasin gaze” genre, Zoon is back with their third studi...
He didn’t know he was auditioning for Avatar: The Last Airbender
Paul Sun-Hyung Lee, the actor you might know best as Appa in Kim’s Convenience, or perhaps Captain Carson Teva in The Mandalorian, is returning for se...
New music: Elysia Biro
Vancouver Island pianist and songwriter Elysia Biro introduces her new single, Reignite, in Q’s recurring New Music segment.
Shania Twain takes Timmins, Ontario with her everywhere she goes
Shania Twain is one of the best-selling artists to ever come out of Canada. Her new album, Little Miss Twain, revisits her early years growing up in T...
Three Days Grace embraces the term “Divorced Dad Rock”
When Adam Gontier resigned as the frontman of Three Days Grace back in 2013, he couldn’t have imagined coming back to the band — and fronting it with...
How one man went from corporate recruiter to protest photographer
Not long ago, Misan Harriman was working a job in recruitment that just didn’t feel right. But when he picked up a camera and started sharing his phot...
How this music director keeps classical music alive
After 11 years, Alexander Shelley has stepped down as the National Arts Centre Orchestra’s music director. Alexander sits down with Tom Power in Ottaw...
Why this playwright thinks kids’ worldviews are a superpower
Fiona Sauder has made a name reimagining classic literature for the stage today. The multi-Dora Award winner is now turning their attention to Kenneth...
Celebrating 25 years of Wet Hot American Summer
David Wain is an American comedian, director and actor, best known for the 2001 cult classic film, Wet Hot American Summer. His new movie, Gail Daught...
The Succession showrunner on writing about wealth and power
In a special Q recording, Tom Power interviewed Jesse Armstrong at the Banff World Media Festival in front of a live audience. Jesse talks about his a...
Her music was suddenly a huge hit. But this Canadian musician felt isolated
Montreal-born, Nashville-based Allison Russell is a Grammy- and Juno Award-winning singer-songwriter, actor, and human rights advocate. Her new album...
Why this musician recorded Newfoundland's rural church organs
Michael Cloud Duguay and his collaborators toured rural towns in Newfoundland looking for something very specific to record: old organs in churches th...
Why Zoe Whittall changed her name to write romance novels
Zoe Whittall is constantly changing her writing. She’s written novels, short story collections, memoir, and TV. And now she’s switching genres again —...
How did Cape Breton become part of a drug smuggling ring?
Andy Hines talks to Tom Power about his feature film Little Lorraine, based on a true story about a drug smuggling ring in 1980s Nova Scotia. He gets...
André Sills on finding the humanity in Othello’s tragedy
It’s André Sills’s biggest season yet at Ontario’s Stratford Festival. The award-winning actor is taking on two of Shakespeare’s most iconic roles: Ob...
Mae Martin on the movie they reluctantly walked out of
Mae Martin has made us laugh with their stand-up comedy, made us cry in shows like Feel Good, and now they're being honoured with the Creative Voice A...
Before k.d. lang, before Peaches, there was Carole Pope
Carole Pope is one of Canada’s first queer female rock stars. In the ’70s and ’80s, Carole’s band Rough Trade was known for their political outspokenn...
Is Evanescence’s new album their best work yet?
Evanescence has released their sixth studio album, Sanctuary, and some fans are calling it their best work since their breakthrough record in 2003. Ev...
Oyin Oladejo on the healing power of Medusa’s rage
A new Canadian play is reimagining the ancient Greek myth of Medusa and giving the gorgon a voice. Oyin Oladejo is playing the snake-haired lead in th...
Jack Innanen is dying to play a young Chris Hadfield
Jack Innanen has tapped into the zeitgeist with his viral TikTok sketches, earning him the title of “the internet’s boyfriend.” His millions of follow...
Why Gail Maurice cast her own mother in a film inspired by her life
Gail Maurice wrote and directed her latest film, Blood Lines, with her hometown of Beauval, Saskatchewan, in mind. Some of the film's dialogue is spok...
Anna Lambe thought TV was superficial until she found its power
Anna Lambe almost walked away from acting before landing her starring role in North of North. She had headed to Ottawa to study international developm...
New Music: True Mountain Laurel
Vancouver duo True Mountain Laurel introduces their debut album’s title track, Angel So Bad, in Q’s recurring New Music segment. The album is out ever...
Q Live in St. John’s!
In November, we took the show on the road all the way to Tom Power’s hometown of St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador! This special live taping of Q...
What it was like singing backup for Céline Dion
Deborah Cox is one of the most celebrated voices in music, with a career that spans chart-topping hits, Grammy nominations, acclaimed performances on...
Even bbno$ finds bbno$ to be too much sometimes
Vancouver’s bbno$ has racked up millions of followers across platforms for his funny raps and witty commentary on internet culture today. After going...
Tom Green on Tony Hawk, gaining a mule’s trust, and coming home to Canada
The Canadian comedian Tom Green has been a huge presence in the comedy world for decades — from his cable-access days doing The Tom Green Show, to his...
Carley Fortune’s adaptation non-negotiable? Keep the story in Canada
Carley Fortune says she had one firm line when it came to the Amazon Prime adaptation of her debut novel: it had to stay in Canada. In the end, the se...
A cartoonist uncovers a chapter of queer American history
Tillie Walden is a prolific and award-winning American graphic novelist. Her 2017 graphic memoir, Spinning, won the prestigious Eisner Award. Now, she...
In a rare English interview, Diljit Dosanjh sits down with Q
Diljit Dosanjh has become the face of a global Punjabi music wave. From the Met Gala to the Billboard charts, he's taking the language, culture, and s...
New Music: Georges E. Sioui
Celebrated academic and Indigenous historian Georges E. Sioui introduces a new song, The Eyes of a Child, in Q’s recurring New Music segment. His debu...
When this Broadway vet won a Tony, she thanked her babysitters
After 20 years on Broadway, Caissie Levy has finally won her first Tony Award. The Canadian actor and singer has made a name for herself both in New Y...
Klô Pelgag on motherhood, creativity and francophone music in Canada
Klô has gone through some big changes since being shortlisted for the Polaris Music Prize in 2021. She wrote her latest album, Abracadabra, after beco...