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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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How learning the tabla awakened Jasmeet Raina’s creativity
Canadian content creator Jasmeet Raina is back with the third season of Late Bloomer, a half-hour comedy series inspired by his own life as a turban-w...
Arizona O’Neill on drawing organs and making peace with her past
Arizona O’Neill is a Montreal-based writer and illustrator whose work has appeared in numerous magazines and outlets. In her debut graphic novel Opioi...
What Bruce Allen learned from managing the biggest names in Canadian music history
Since the 1960s, Bruce Allen has been one of the key architects of this nation’s music industry. His management roster reads like a history of Canadia...
Chloe Tang went from working security at a music venue to playing it with Dua Lipa
Chloe Tang began her music journey as a classically trained pianist and vocalist. But the Canadian musician yearned to be the next Avril Lavigne. When...
King of Soca Machel Montano on the history of Carnival around the world
Machel Montano is known as the King of Soca, and is widely credited with bringing Soca music to the global stage. In 2025, the Trinidadian singer, son...
How this self-taught musician turned her passion into billions of views
Ebril is an Iraqi Canadian artist who blends a range of influences into her music. Her debut album, In Copula, took six years to complete because she...
Why you should take children’s books seriously
Mac Barnett did something he said he never would: he wrote a book for adults. Make Believe is the award-winning children’s author’s newest book about...
How to turn toxic masculinity — and Elon Musk’s satellites — into poetry
When the Nova Scotian writer Graeme Bezanson sat down to write his new collection of poetry about boyhood and toxic masculinity, he drew inspiration f...
How Kathy Reichs changed the face of crime fiction
For three decades, crime writer and forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs has been writing novels that bring the science behind solving crimes to the f...
Mental health comes first for this music manager
Sandy Pandya is a music industry veteran who has managed musicians like Serena Ryder and Jully Black. At this year’s Junos, she was honoured with the...
How the dance floor got Arlo Parks out of her head
Arlo Parks is a Grammy-nominated artist from London, whose career launched after she submitted her demos to the BBC. Since then, she’s opened for arti...
Looking for a sign to chase your dreams? Aysanabee is it.
In just four years since Aysanabee left his day job to pursue music, he has played over 400 shows, toured all over the world and was shortlisted for t...
Directing made this actor writhe in a chair — from excitement
Acclaimed Canadian stage actor Peter Fernandes is making his directorial debut at this year’s Shaw Festival, with a remount of the play Sleuth. This T...
Burnt out, this country star found inspiration at an airport
Country musician Owen Riegling went from playing the local pub in his hometown of Mildmay, Ont. for his buddies, to hitting the stage at iconic venues...
Josh Groban’s dad gave up music. Now, they’re recording together
In a long-awaited catch-up, singer, songwriter and actor Josh Groban stops by the Q studio to talk about his upcoming album Cinematic. The record is a...
Dumb Crush have Had It with hustle culture
On their new song Had It, Toronto indie-rock trio Dumb Crush tell the story of a modern-day guy who’s dealing with the pressures of hyper-individualit...
Why Arkells still want to play small venues — like a strip club
Arkells are at a stage of success where they can easily sell out large amphitheatres across Canada. But with their new record Between Us, the band has...
This filmmaker will teach you how to swallow a sword
When Alberta filmmaker Jody Wilson was working on visual effects for CSI Miami, she didn’t know the Hollywood gig was also laying the groundwork for h...
Ziggy Marley is making music to please the angels on Brightside
For nearly 40 years, Ziggy Marley has built a legendary career across music, writing and philanthropy. Now, the eldest son of reggae icon Bob Marley r...
This artist turns the thankless work of motherhood into vibrant art
Best known for her tapestries and textile paintings, Paulina Constancia’s latest series, MOMents, reflects the early days of motherhood, celebrating t...
Riz Ahmed says the only way through shame is laughter
Riz Ahmed is an Oscar and Emmy-award winning actor and rapper, known for pushing for more nuanced portrayals of South Asians, and especially Muslims,...
Jeremy Dutcher worked with improvisers to score this thriller
After winning the prestigious Polaris Music Prize for a second time, Jeremy Dutcher decided to do something he’s never done before: score a film. He c...
Firefighter, naval officer, musician: the many lives of Kashus Culpepper
During the pandemic, Kashus Culpepper learned to play the guitar on YouTube, and soon enough was performing covers for his fellow sailors in the Unite...
Why starring on The Pitt has made this Canadian actor more neurotic
Brittany Allen has been a working actor and composer for over 15 years. Her breakout role as Marissa on the long-running soap All My Children earned h...
Introducing: The Big Five with Tom Power and Donovan Woods
The Big Five answers the most pressing question of our time: what are the “Big 5” of any given category? Not the best 5. Not the top 5. Not anyone’s f...
Kacey Musgraves shares her secret weapon for songwriting
Eight-time Grammy winner Kacey Musgraves is back with her seventh album, Middle of Nowhere. The record looks at where she’s from, transitions and bein...
Cat Clyde is done with apologizing for being a woman
Canadian songwriter Cat Clyde, known for blending rockabilly with modern Americana, just released her fourth full-length album, called Mud Blood Bone....
This Montreal DJ’s weirdest gig? A Russian mob island castle
Without Tiga, the vibrant dance party scene in Montreal wouldn’t exist. The DJ and record producer pioneered the first club, first parties and the ove...
Banned in Iran, one singer found her voice in Canada
For decades, Parisa Karimi Molan was banned from singing publicly in her homeland of Iran because she was a woman. But, Parisa found her voice in Cana...
Why people want Peter Capaldi to tell them to “f**k off”
Scottish actor Peter Capaldi drops by the Q studio to talk about his hit Apple TV police drama Criminal Record. He shares stories from his more than 4...
This artist takes “listen to your heart” to a whole new level
British Columbia’s Ora Cogan just released a new record, Hard Hearted Woman. She tells Tom Power about her spiritual approach to songwriting and what...
“Modern Whore” is Playboy if it was run by the Bunnies
After being the lead sex work consultant on the film Anora, Andrea Werhun tapped that film’s writer-director Sean Baker to executive produce her new a...
Thrifting and old-school hip-hop inspired Cadence Weapon’s latest album
Cadence Weapon, the Edmonton-born, Polaris Music Prize-winning rapper, author and producer is back with his new album, Forager. It’s an exploration of...
Beef creator Lee Sung Jin on the argument that inspired Season 2
In Season 1 of Netflix’s dark comedy Beef, the show’s creator Lee Sung Jin found a winning formula: an escalating feud ignited by a single road rage i...
This ballet dancer wants to dismantle the myth of the “responsible genius”
Cameron sinkʷə Fraser-Monroe is a Canadian dancer and choreographer who brings First Nations storytelling to contemporary ballet. His new full-length...
“It was like magic”: Ringo Starr on his psychic connection with his fellow Beatles
At 85, Ringo Starr shows no sign of slowing down. The English musician’s new album Long Long Road is a return to country music — a genre he’s loved si...
This filmmaker gets how hard it is to make a movie about mental health
Canadian writer-director Sophy Romvari’s debut feature film, Blue Heron, follows a Hungarian-Canadian family as they relocate to Vancouver Island in t...
Why Jean Yoon is playing a pre-teen character in her 60s
American-Canadian actor Jean Yoon, best known for playing Mrs. Kim on the beloved series Kim’s Convenience, is back on stage in a new play. It’s calle...
Why *did* American Pie drive the Chevy to the levee?
P.E.I. actor and theatre director Mike Ross has been obsessed with the Don McLean song American Pie for decades. Now, he’s co-created a stage show abo...
Chase Infiniti studied cults to prepare for The Testaments
Following her buzziest — and busiest — awards season yet, Chase Infiniti is starring in Hulu’s The Testaments. Based on Margaret Atwood’s novel of the...