Q with Tom Power
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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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James Acaster almost quit comedy because of his audience
James Acaster is one of Britain’s top comedy exports right now. But for many years, he had a problem that just wouldn’t go away — his audience. James...
Tania Willard wants to take you beyond the art gallery
Tania Willard is an artist who wants you to think beyond the white cube — beyond the sterile white walls and polished floors of the typical art galler...
Rachel Reid promises she’s reading your Heated Rivalry emails
Years ago, when Rachel Reid finished her first manuscript, she didn’t tell anyone she was submitting it for publication. But that was before the runaw...
Despite an Oscar nod, Hubert Davis still feels like an emerging filmmaker
Back in 2005, Hubert Davis became the very first Black Canadian to be nominated for an Academy Award. It was for his personal, moving documentary, Har...
Louise Pitre, Canada's first lady of musical theatre
Canadian theatre legend Louise Pitre is back on stage in Canada in the Tony Award-winning musical Kimberly Akimbo. It tells the story of a teenage gir...
Jafar Panahi was inspired by Tehran’s political prisoners
Last year, Iranian director Jafar Panahi won the Palme d'Or at Cannes for his extraordinary film It Was Just an Accident, which he shot secretly in Te...
Elle Fanning calls herself a "nepo sibling”
Elle Fanning (A Complete Unknown, The Neon Demon) is an A-list actor who calls herself a "nepo sibling.” When she was just two years old, she played a...
The unmasking of the once-anonymous Ghost
When Tobias Forge was a kid growing up in Sweden, he had no intention of having the biggest album in the world. But this year, his band Ghost hit No....
The Testament of Ann Lee is redefining the musical
Mona Fastvold is the director of the buzzy new movie musical The Testament of Ann Lee, which is based on the true story of Ann Lee, the charismatic re...
Wesli’s music pays homage to his Haitian roots
Wesli is a Montreal-based Haitian singer, guitarist and producer who recently released his seventh studio album, Makaya. On this album, Haitian music...
Jennette McCurdy on female rage and forgiving your past self
Jennette McCurdy has followed up her bestselling memoir, I’m Glad My Mom Died, with a harrowing debut novel called Half His Age. Written in the voice...
How do roadside attractions shape our cultural narrative?
Alexander “Sandy” Carson is a Canadian filmmaker whose new movie, Alberta Number One, takes a look at more than 60 single-topic museums, monuments and...
Jodie Foster feels like a different actor performing in French
Jodie Foster has played many roles in her career, including an FBI trainee, an astronomer, a fixer in a bank heist, an Alaskan police chief, and a lon...
Katie Tupper steps off the track on her debut album Greyhound
Saskatoon’s Katie Tupper has just released her debut album, Greyhound, which reflects on her life, where she comes from, her relationships, and the un...
For George Takei, coming out has been a lifelong process
George Takei is one of America’s most beloved actors and activists, known best for playing Hikaru Sulu in the Star Trek franchise. Last year, he relea...
Spencer Badu is taking homegrown fashion global
Fashion designer Spencer Badu is known for making structured, genderless garments that have been worn by the likes of A$AP Rocky and Kendrick Lamar. E...
Nat & Alex Wolff helped each other get through childhood fame
Actor and musician siblings Nat Wolff (Paper Towns, The Fault in Our Stars) and Alex Wolff (Hereditary, Old) have been living and breathing music near...
Why don’t we know more about this Canadian violin prodigy?
In her new film, Measures for a Funeral, director Sofia Bohdanowicz blends fiction with documentary to tell the forgotten true story of Canadian violi...
Sally Wainwright on her new menopausal punk TV drama
Sally Wainwright, the acclaimed British TV creator behind shows like Happy Valley and Last Tango in Halifax, is back with a new series called Riot Wom...
SNFU is Edmonton’s punk rock success story
Back in the 1980s, Edmonton birthed one of the most influential Canadian punk bands of all time: SNFU. For most of its existence, twin brothers Marc a...
Once a DJ, Stan Douglas uses art to remix history
Stan Douglas, one of Canada’s most internationally renowned artists, is widely known for “remixing history” — restaging and reframing social and polit...
Endless Cookie is a psychedelic family portrait of two half-brothers
Imagine taking your favourite family memories and spinning them into a full-length movie. That’s exactly what the Toronto filmmaker Seth Scriver has d...
It took María Zardoya 10 years to become an overnight success
María Zardoya is the lead vocalist of the band The Marías, which broke through last year to become an indie pop phenomenon. With more than 35 million...
Lee Byung-hun on fate and his accidental acting career
Acclaimed actor Lee Byung-hun (Squid Game, KPop Demon Hunters) has done a lot to pave the way for Korean films in Hollywood — but he never set out to...
Rose Byrne is always looking for a joke
Before cementing her status as a bonafide comedic talent, Rose Byrne (Bridesmaids, Neighbors) was known for dramatic roles. The Australian actor combi...
Jessie Reyez got everything she ever wanted — but it came with a cost
Juno-winning Canadian singer-songwriter Jessie Reyez blew up nearly 10 years ago with a song called Figures. With her powerful voice, she eventually a...
Jane Siberry did pay-what-you-want music before Radiohead
Canadian singer Jane Siberry is a free spirit in every sense. From distributing her own music to touring fans’ living rooms, she’s spent four decades...
100 years from now Zacharias Kunuk’s films will be studied
Film legend Zacharias Kunuk (Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner) has made more than 30 films and documentaries over his career — almost entirely in Inuktitut...
Why Bells Larsen decided to sing duets with his past self
On Bells Larsen’s stunning album Blurring Time he has an unlikely collaborator — himself. Bells is a trans man and he first recorded the album in his...
She wrote Eat, Pray, Love. But Elizabeth Gilbert had more healing to do
When Elizabeth Gilbert published her memoir Eat, Pray, Love 20 years ago, she set off a tourism boom of solo travellers inspired by her search for sel...
How Phil Hanley’s severe dyslexia fuels his comedy
Canadian stand-up comedian Phil Hanley has lived with severe dyslexia for so long he can’t see life any other way. But what once held him back as a ch...
Anoushka Shankar wants you to hear the sitar differently
When Anoushka Shankar was in Goa a few years ago, she wrote down four words: “Three chapters, three geographies.” That note has been the inspiration f...
The highs and lows of the Guess Who
Sixty years into their career and one intense legal battle later, Burton Cummings and Randy Bachman of the Guess Who have finally won back the rights...
Mark Ronson looks back at his rise in the ’90s DJ scene
Nine-time Grammy winner Mark Ronson is responsible for producing some of the biggest pop songs of the last few decades. He’s worked with the likes of...
Phil Rosenthal is the luckiest person in the world
Phil Rosenthal is the creator, writer and executive producer of Everybody Loves Raymond, one of the most successful sitcoms of all time. But after the...
Atsuko Okatsuka was technically kidnapped by her grandma
Comedian Atsuko Okatsuka is able to make the most difficult life experiences seem funny. In her latest stand-up special, Father, she takes a look at h...
Sandra Oh wants to know what you’d sacrifice to save the planet
This year, Sandra Oh (Killing Eve, Grey’s Anatomy) received critical acclaim for her role in the Canadian indie film “Can I Get a Witness?” It’s set i...
The pressure of being a Palestinian American comedian
Mo Amer is a Palestinian American comedian who puts himself at the heart of his work, using his own lived experiences to fuel his comedy. But with the...
Why Anne Murray said no to Hollywood
Anne Murray definitely got her flowers in 2025. This past September, the Canadian icon returned with her 33rd studio album, “Here You Are,” which feat...
Yanic Truesdale was told he spoke too quickly after Gilmore Girls
Montreal’s own Yanic Truesdale has become a beloved actor all around the world, particularly for his role as Stars Hollow’s passive aggressive hotel c...