2013
Friday, May 24, 2013 | Categories:
A special Q show, recorded live in front of an audience earlier this week at the Royal Theatre in Victoria...
Friday, May 24, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
The Q team touched down at the gorgeous Royal Theatre in Victoria, B.C on Wednesday night. Now you can listen...
Thursday, May 23, 2013 | Categories:
Attempting to draw attention to Joseph Kony's war crimes in Uganda, American Jason Russell's activist video Kony 2012 became the...
Thursday, May 23, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
The Q team touched down at the sold out Royal Theatre in beautiful Victoria, British Columbia last night. Tune in...
Wednesday, May 22, 2013 | Categories:
From corporate giant to convicted felon, provocative historian to outspoken columnist, and now a soon-to-be TV talk show co-host, Conrad...
Conrad Black has been back in Canada for a little over a year, after his lengthy legal fight in the...
Tuesday, May 21, 2013 | Categories:
Vinnie Bruzzese, a statistician whose company advises Hollywood studios and producers on how to hit the sweet spot with audiences,...
Tuesday, May 21, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
Writer and performer David Sedaris stopped by Studio Q to chat about his new book of humourous essays, Let's Explore...
Tuesday, May 21, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
Former stats professor Vinnie Bruzzese applies numbers analysis to movie scripts in-progress. He says his methods can lead to box...
Monday, May 20, 2013 | Categories:
Best of Q VICTORIA DAY ShowWe convene a wheat-free diet debate with Dr. William Davis, author of the runaway best-seller...
Friday, May 17, 2013 | Categories:
Live performance throughout the show from the cast of Tommy, a modern remount of the "pinball wizard" rock musical by...
Friday, May 17, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
The Who's iconic guitarist and songwriter Pete Townshend on his 1969 "rock opera" Tommy, overcoming abuse as a child and...
Friday, May 17, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
Later this month, the Who's rock-opera Tommy opens at the Stratford festival. Today on Q, we featured an interview with...
Friday, May 17, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
The Cannes Film Festival is underway in the south of France, and lone Canadian to make the official selection is...
Thursday, May 16, 2013 | Categories:
A special two-part interview with comedy genius Mel Brooks. The writer, performer, composer and film director is the subject of...
Thursday, May 16, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
A special one-hour interview with comedy genius Mel Brooks - writer, performer, composer, and film director -- creator of films...
Wednesday, May 15, 2013 | Categories:
Is it problematic or a viable personal choice that more female public figures are declaring themselves women-positive, but hesitate to identify...
Wednesday, May 15, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
Mega-selling author Dan Brown's new novel is called Inferno. He spoke to Jian about writing for a mass audience, his fidelity...
Wednesday, May 15, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
Katy Perry says that while she believes in "the strength of women," she does not identify as a "feminist". And...
Wednesday, May 15, 2013 | Categories:
Comedic actor Ken Jeong from NBC's Community and The Hangover film series is back with the latest and final edition...
Tuesday, May 14, 2013 | Categories:
Abba's Björn Ulvaeus on the opening of a new museum honouring the celebrated group in Stockholm, Sweden. Indie heroes The National...
As we celebrate today's release of Vampire Weekend's Modern Vampires of the City and we bask in the glow of...
Tuesday, May 14, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
Jian discusses Commander Chris Hadfield's incredible space oydessy....
Tuesday, May 14, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
This past week marked the opening of ABBA: The Museum in Stockholm, Sweden -- a new permanent exhibition devoted to...
For the past 14 years, the Brooklyn-via-Cincinnati band The National have taken their mix of raw talent and classical training,...
Monday, May 13, 2013 | Categories:
Slate's Aisha Harris on the meme-ification of Charles Ramsey and our cultural fascination with the "hilarious black neighbour." Funk pioneer Bootsy...
Monday, May 13, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
Today, Jian spoke to Eve Ensler, the award-winning playwright and best-selling author behind The Vagina Monologues, The Good Body and...
Monday, May 13, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
As a member of James Brown's band, and later with Parliament-Funkadelic, bassist and song-writer Bootsy Collins played a major role...
Friday, May 10, 2013 | Categories:
Live performances throughout the show from three-time JUNO winner David Francey whose brand new album So Say We All explores...
Friday, May 10, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
David Francey didn't begin his musical career until the tender age of 45. Since then, he has won three Junos...
Friday, May 10, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
Alt-cartoonist Gilbert Hernandez is the co-creator, along with his brothers Jaime and Mario, of the long-standing and revolutionary comic Love...
Friday, May 10, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
In his essay today, Jian addressed the most recent revival of the "is the CBC in crisis?" debate....
Thursday, May 9, 2013 | Categories:
Veep creator Armando Iannucci talks about his hit HBO TV series starring Julie Louis-Dreyfus in the role of fictitious US...
Denver-based acoustic folk band The Lumineers broke out in a big way last year when their hit song "Ho Hey"...
Thursday, May 9, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
British TV comedy legend Armando Iannucci is reaching audiences in North America with his latest program Veep. The show skewers the emptiness...
Wednesday, May 8, 2013 | Categories:
Larry Siems of PEN talks about a newly declassified memoir by Guantanamo detainee Mohamedou Ould Slahi. It's a harrowing, first-person...
Wednesday, May 8, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
CBC host and environmental advocate David Suzuki explains why overprotective parents and the lure of technology are resulting in...
Wednesday, May 8, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
Director of PEN's Freedom To Write program, Larry Siems, spoke to Jian about an eye-opening memoir by Guantanamo Bay detainee Mohamedou Ould...
Wednesday, May 8, 2013 | Categories:
Harvard professor Dr. Abraham Morgentaler's new book, Why Men Fake It: The Totally Unexpected Truth About Men and Sex, is...
Tuesday, May 7, 2013 | Categories:
Washington Post's Caitlin Dewey on "prison reviews" appearing on the popular restaurant review website Yelp! -- everything from comments on...
Tuesday, May 7, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
New York Times media reporter Brian Stelter discusses his new book "Top of the Morning: Inside the Cutthroat World...
Tuesday, May 7, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
Toronto musician Maylee Todd's new album is called Escapology, a record that Exclaim! called "a freaky funk soul disco party." She and...
Monday, May 6, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
Are we facing a crisis of empathy in society? Author and educator Mary Gordon talks about "Roots of Empathy," her program...
Monday, May 6, 2013 | Categories:
Mary Gordon discusses her program Roots of Empathy, which teaches empathy to school age children by having them interact with...
Monday, May 6, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
Journalist and academic Shereen El-Feki spoke to Jian about her new book, Sex and the Citadel, in which she explores...
Friday, May 3, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
Oscar-nominated actor James Cromwell on Michael McGowan's "Still Mine" and the relationship between his "radical progressive" politics and his critically-acclaimed...
Friday, May 3, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
The New York Times has called David Steinberg "a cross between Woody Allen and Lenny Bruce" and "a comic institution...
Friday, May 3, 2013 | Categories:
Friday Live performance from UK folk-rocker and activist Billy Bragg from his latest album, Tooth & Nail. Architect Gary McCluskie on the complicated and controversial...
Friday, May 3, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
Hear U.K. singer-songwriter Billy Bragg perform from his new album, Tooth and Nail. He also sat down with Jian to chat...
Thursday, May 2, 2013 | Categories:
Documentary filmmakers D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus on the 20th anniversary of their landmark documentary on American politics, The War...
Thursday, May 2, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
Jian pays tribute to people behind the Ontario Music Fund: a three-year, $45-million commitment by the Ontario provincial government to...
Don Cheadle explores the relationship between fictitious and real life conflict, between Hollywood blockbusters like Iron Man 3 and the...
Thursday, May 2, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
Blair Koenig takes on a major big new-millennium trend with her blog, STFU, Parents. It chronicles the worst examples of...
Wednesday, May 1, 2013 | Categories:
Acclaimed Brazilian documentary photographer Sebastião Salgado on his journey to the ends of the earth to find the world's most...
Rachel Zeffira has a thing for lucky (or, perhaps unlucky) breaks. Born-and-raised in The Kootenays, BC, the classically-trained singer and...
Wednesday, May 1, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
Documentary photographer Sebastião Salgado travelled to some of the world's most remote places to capture pristine landscapes and the traditional...
Tuesday, April 30, 2013 | Categories:
Has the time for French/English billingualism passed? Is multillingualism more reflective of our Canadian present and future? A Q debate,...
Tuesday, April 30, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
Ottawa-based photographer Jonathan Hobin has made headlines and sparked criticism with his photo series In the Playroom, which features children re-enacting...
Monday, April 29, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
We convene a Q debate between Graham Fraser, Canada's Commissioner of Official Languages and indigenous rights activist Ellen Gabriel. They're...
Monday, April 29, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
In his new book, The Goldmine Effect, former professional soccer player turned motivational speaker Rasmus Andersen travels around the world...
Monday, April 29, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
On Saturday night in the small town of Rochelle, Georgia, history was made by students at Wilcox County High School....
Monday, April 29, 2013 | Categories:
Georgia locals Harriet Hollis and Edward Dubose on Wilcox County High School's first integrated prom this past weekend, meaning black students and...
Monday, April 29, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
Legendary artist and musician (not to mention Grammy and Academy Award winner) Trent Reznor is back in the spotlight with...
Friday, April 26, 2013 | Categories:
Award-winning singer-songwriter David Myles performs from his new disc In The Nighttime throughout the show. Has anything changed? Just a...
Friday, April 26, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
Jian discusses the reprieve for the world-renowned research facilities in Northern Ontario known as the Experimental Lakes Area. Last year,...
Friday, April 26, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
Legendary country singer George Jones has died at the age of 81. Known for his signature baritone, the hard-living...
Friday, April 26, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
Marina Chapman's life story is equal parts fascinating and unbelievable. Kidnapped at the age of 4, she was left in...
Friday, April 26, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
Dhaka-based investigative reporter Syed-Zain al-Mahmoud discusses Wednesday's collapse of a garment factory in the suburbs of Dhaka, Bangladesh. The number...
Thursday, April 25, 2013 | Categories:
Guelph strip club manager-turned filmmaker Shawney Cohen talks about his debut feature documentary The Manor, which kicks off the Hot...
Thursday, April 25, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
Jian reflects on the disaster at a garment factory in Bangladesh. The building collapsed on Wednesday, killing more than 200...
Thursday, April 25, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
Renowned primatologist and conservationist Jane Goodall travels about 300 days a year spreading her message of conservation and hope. Hear her...
Wednesday, April 24, 2013 | Categories:
Writer Mohsin Hamid, whose breakthrough novel The Reluctant Fundamentalist, about a Pakistani man working on Wall Street, is now a...
Wednesday, April 24, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
Following the bombings in Boston, President Obama asked, "why did young men who grew up and studied here, as part of...
Wednesday, April 24, 2013 | Categories:
Q marks the 449th anniversary of the birth of William Shakespeare with a debate about the source of the Bard's...
Tuesday, April 23, 2013 | Categories:
Jian is back. On the occasion of its 30th anniversary, Bruce Hills, longtime CEO of Just for Laughs, reflects on...
On his 15th studio record The Low Highway, country rock troubadour Steve Earle looks at hard times from a perspective...
Tuesday, April 23, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
"Gaybros" is an online community of gay men who share interests in things like pool, football, videogames, barbequing and tech...
Monday, April 22, 2013 | Categories:
Terry O'Reilly guest hosts. An exploration of the changing public profile of the hacktivist organization Anonymous, most recently in the...
Monday, April 22, 2013 | Categories:
Halifax musician, composer and arranger Erin Costelo's latest record -- We Can Get Over -- finds the jazz-trained singer/songwriter channelling soul and...
Monday, April 22, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
Anonymous, the online activist network have received kudos recently for Operation Justice for Rehtaeh, their effort to get the RCMP to re-open...
Friday, April 19, 2013 | Categories:
Q live at the Junos in Regina! k.d. lang, the JUNO and Grammy winner is the 2013 inductee into the...
You can now stream Q's Juno special from the Conexus Arts Centre in Regina on Thursday night. Featuring interviews and performances from k.d....
Thursday, April 18, 2013 | Categories:
With news that the National Arts Centre Orchestra will be touring China, former Canadian foreign minister Lloyd Axworthy reflects on...
It's our 6th anniversary at Q, and we're celebrating with another Q exposed list! Click on the link to discover the identity...
Thursday, April 18, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
Emmy-award winning documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, the man behind epics like The Civil War, Jazz, and Baseball, has co-directed a film with his...
Thursday, April 18, 2013 | Categories:
After years of lobbying by fans, Rush is finally being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. On...
Wednesday, April 17, 2013 | Categories:
Writer and filmmaker Sebastian Junger on Which Way Is the Front Line From Here?: The Life and Time of...
Wednesday, April 17, 2013 | Categories:
Q is heading to Victoria, British Columbia!The show will take place Wednesday, May 22 from 7 to 9 p.m. at the...
Upon word of the death of Rita MacNeil, we present a tribute to the great Cape Breton singer. Jian speaks...
Tuesday, April 16, 2013 | Categories:
Award-winning author Lawrence Hill on his latest book, Dear Sir, I Intend to Burn Your Book, a nonfiction account of the...
Tuesday, April 16, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
Legendary singer and song-writer Paul Anka has just released a new album called Duets and a new memoir, titled My...
Tuesday, April 16, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
Today is Q's 6th anniversary and we're marking the occasion this week by revisiting some of our favourite interviews from...
Tuesday, April 16, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
As Boston wakes up to the morning after two bombs went off near the finish line of the Boston marathon,...
Monday, April 15, 2013 | Categories:
Program Director at the Birds Eye View Film Festival, Elhum Shakerifar, on why women in Arab countries are taking up...
Monday, April 15, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
Expectations this season for the Toronto Blue Jays are sky high, but if there is anyone who could handle those...
Monday, April 15, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
Jian spoke to Elhum Shakerifar, the program director of The Birds Eye View Film Festival. This year, the festival solely...
Friday, April 12, 2013 | Categories:
Friday live musical guest JUNO Award-winning singer-songwriter Ruth Moody performs from her new album, These Wilder Things. The finale of...
Friday, April 12, 2013 | Categories:
Jason Priestley stopped by Studio Q to talk about his role in the new Canadian Stage production of David Mamet's...
Friday, April 12, 2013 | Categories:
Run DMC -- founded in 1981 by Joseph "Run" Simmons, Jason "Jam Master Jay" Mizell and Darryl "D.M.C." McDaniels --...
The people have chosen their winner in CBC Music's Searchlight competition to determine the best new musical act in the...
Friday, April 12, 2013 | Categories:
Jason Priestley, the star of Call Me Fitz is appearing in a new production of RACE, by Pulitzer Prize-winning American...
Thursday, April 11, 2013 | Categories:
Debbie Lum, the filmmaker behind the new documentary, Seeking Asian Female, which looks at the cultural phenomenon of immigrant Asian...
Thursday, April 11, 2013 | Categories:
As a woman of Chinese heritage born and raised in America, filmmaker Debbie Lum is no stranger to the idealization...
Thursday, April 11, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
There is nothing small about UK rockers Muse. The Grammy winning, prog-rock trio are known around the world for their...
Wednesday, April 10, 2013 | Categories:
Jose Antonio Vargas, a high-level journalist in the U.S. who revealed himself to be an undocumented resident, reflects on the...
Wednesday, April 10, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
Last week the Associated Press made a major change to their style book; they will stop using the term "illegal...
Wednesday, April 10, 2013 | Categories:
Kelly Oxford, the former Calgary stay-at-home mom turned author and Hollywood screenwriter talks internet fame, parental over-share and her new...
Tuesday, April 9, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
Michal Friedlander is one of the curators of a controversial new exhibit at Berlin's Jewish Museum that's being nicknamed Jew in...
Tuesday, April 9, 2013 | Categories:
Actress, singer, and dancer Debbie Reynolds -- who starred in dozens of classic Hollywood musicals, including Singin' in the Rain...
Tuesday, April 9, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
UFC welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre has a new book, The Way of the Fight, which tracks his childhood in St....
Tuesday, April 9, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
Veteran actor Debbie Reynolds became "America's Sweetheart" and joined Hollywood's elite after starring in Singin' in the Rain. Her career in...
Monday, April 8, 2013 | Categories:
Sex educator Marty Klein argues that we need to deal with the reality of the online age and teach porn...
Monday, April 8, 2013 | Categories:
Friday on the show, we will reveal the winner in CBC Music's Searchlight competition to determine the best new musical act...
Monday, April 8, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
For teens today, porn is only a click away, and even the most modest estimates say about half of all teens...
Monday, April 8, 2013 | Categories:
With just a few days left in the Kickstarter campaign for a new Veronica Mars movie, Jian talks to Rob...
Friday, April 5, 2013 | Categories:
We remember acclaimed film critic Roger Ebert with an inspiring interview he did in Studio Q in 2011. Also, film critics Johanna Schneller...
Friday, April 5, 2013 | Categories:
Actor Jason Priestley talks about his challenging role in the Toronto production of David Mamet's controversial play, Race, about a...
Friday, April 5, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
Glen Mazzara has been the brains behind AMC's hit series The Walking Dead for the past season and a half....
Friday, April 5, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
This Sunday evening, the 6th season of Man Men premieres -- a special two-hour episode called "The Doorway". Today, Canadian...
Thursday, April 4, 2013 | Categories:
Mark Kleiman, an academic who has made drug-policy his speciality, on the challenges he'll face as the newly-appointed lead on...
Thursday, April 4, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
We pay tribute today to film critic Roger Ebert, who died yesterday at the age of 70. For 46 years, he...
Thursday, April 4, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
Washington state voted to legalize recreational marijuana last fall, but no one really knew what a legal pot economy would...
The enormously successful composer was in Studio Q today for a chat about his entire career -- from Jesus Christ...
Wednesday, April 3, 2013 | Categories:
Professor Thomas Homer-Dixon argues that Canada's dependence on the oil sands is eroding Canadian democracy. Canadian punk-rockers Billy Talent on...
Wednesday, April 3, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
Today Jian spoke to academic and author Thomas Homer-Dixon about his controversial recent New York Times op-ed "The Tar Sands...
It's hard to believe Canadian rockers Billy Talent are celebrating their 20th anniversary as a band this summer. During those...
Tuesday, April 2, 2013 | Categories:
A look at what's behind the rising Chinese practice of "duplitecture", where global cities and towns -- including places in...
Tjhis Monday, we will announce, live on the show, the top 2 acts still remaining in CBC Music's Searchlight competition to...
Tuesday, April 2, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
For the past few decades, China has been replicating many of the West's architectural gems. Think an entire alpine village,...
Tuesday, April 2, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
Thankfully we've moved beyond a car culture that actively casts women as aliens behind the wheel (see below!). But journalist Libby...
Monday, April 1, 2013 | Categories:
Best of Q. A look at the burgeoning comedy scene in South Africa, where race is on the agenda, along...
Friday, March 29, 2013 | Categories:
Q in New York City, recorded live before an audience of 600 at the Gerald Lynch Theater in Manhattan, Thursday...
Thursday, March 28, 2013 | Categories:
Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg talks about the reaction to her book about women pushing themselves harder in the workplace, Lean In....
It was a raucous evening on Thursday night for Q in New York City! Vampire Weekend, performed from their forthcoming...
Thursday, March 28, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
Charles Bradley spent most of his life working odd jobs and living in poverty. But those years of hardship birthed...
Thursday, March 28, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
Jian spoke to Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, one of the most powerful women in the corporate world. Her controversial book, Lean...
Wednesday, March 27, 2013 | Categories:
In the wake of the Ryerson University Youtube hazing video, Andrew Potter talks about the "substantial virtues" of hazing. 2012...
Wednesday, March 27, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
Alt-J stopped by Studio Q on the heels of their hit debut record An Awesome Wave. That album took the...
Wednesday, March 27, 2013 | Categories:
While many were shocked and angered over a recent Youtube "hazing" video, featuring engineering students in Toronto crawling through slush...
Tuesday, March 26, 2013 | Categories:
Sociologist Neil Gross puts empirical study behind the conservative accusation that higher education is a liberal haven. French alt-dance band...
Tuesday, March 26, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
The French band Phoenix first broke out in a big way with their 2009 record Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix. After a long...
Tuesday, March 26, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
Linguist Ben Zimmer was on the show today to talk about hashtag mania, its popularity, usage, and future. Whether you're...
UPDATE: There are no more tickets available. A limited number of tickets have become available for Q LIVE in New...
Monday, March 25, 2013 | Categories:
Journalist Helaine Olen discusses her book Pound Foolish, which questions the personal finance industry. Sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson from...
Monday, March 25, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
On today's Sports Culture Panel, Stephen Brunt and Scott Russell discussed 17-year-old Kaetlyn Osmond's breakthrough performance at the world figure...
Monday, March 25, 2013 | Categories: Contests
On Tuesday, we'll announce the top 4 acts remaining in CBC Music's Searchlight competition to find the best new musical act...
Ann and Nancy Wilson of Heart stopped by Studio Q to chat about their very busy year. 2012 saw them...
Friday, March 22, 2013 | Categories:
All-female, post-punk band Savages from London England preview their forthcoming album, Silence Yourselves. Sticks and Stones author Emily Bazelon on the misuse...
The exciting new U.K. post-punk quartet Savages are in Studio Q for their North American broadcast debut....
Friday, March 22, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
Sandra Bernhard talks about her outspoken and outlandish celebrity outsider status and whether that voice both created and undermined her...
Friday, March 22, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
Jian's take on the controversial new code of conduct at Library and Archives Canada....
Thursday, March 21, 2013 | Categories:
Journalist and The Walrus senior editor Rachel Giese on the tremendous public backlash to media coverage of the Steubenville rape...
Scottish rising stars Chvrches stopped by Studio Q fresh off a triumphant run at the always competitive SXSW Music Festival....
Thursday, March 21, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
The media has come under fire for its coverage of the rape trial that concluded earlier this week in Steubenville, Ohio. In...
Wednesday, March 20, 2013 | Categories:
Ten years after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, award-winning journalist Jonathan Landay on the media failures leading up to the war, and...
Wednesday, March 20, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
Jian's opening essay marking Persian New Year....
We're heading to Regina for a special live-audience edition of Q as part of this year's JUNOfest! The lineup includes a...
Wednesday, March 20, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
One year ago, a little video called Kony 2012 became the most viral in history. The goal behind the video...
Tuesday, March 19, 2013 | Categories:
Gawker.com writer Camille Dodero on the end of the pioneering alternative newspaper the Boston Phoenix. David Abitbol, the organizer of the...
Tuesday, March 19, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
The Westboro Baptist Church is known for their controversial protests warning America about the wrath of God. They have often...
Tuesday, March 19, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
As the popularity of Twitter and Tumblr have soared, younger users are flooding to those sites as alternatives to Facebook....
Monday, March 18, 2013 | Categories:
Journalist Marin Cogan on the stereotypical depiction of female political reporters as seductresses in the Netflix original drama House of...
Monday, March 18, 2013 | Categories:
Writer Andrew Kaufman makes the case that our current English vocabulary is insufficient and we should all feel free to...
Monday, March 18, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
MMA fighter Fallon Fox sparked controversy when she recently revealed that she was born male, making her the first transgender...
On Monday we will reveal, live on the show, the remaining 8 finalists in CBC Music's Searchlight...their competition to determine the best...
Monday, March 18, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
If you watch House of Cards, the acclaimed new Netflix drama, you might get the idea that it's common for...
Friday, March 15, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
We look at two controversial technologies from this year's SXSW Interactive Festival. Guardian technology editor Charles Arthur considers the privacy...
Over the past 15 years, Montreal chamber ensemble Trio Fibonacci (named after the mathematician) has devoted itself to the exploration...
Friday, March 15, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
The long wait is finally over. Inspired by the passionate fight going on in Massachusetts right now over which song...
Friday, March 15, 2013 | Categories:
Friday Live performance -- Violinist Julie-Anne Derome, cellist Gabriel Prynn and pianist Wonny Song are Quebec's Trio Fibonacci, a chamber...
Thursday, March 14, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
In his novels, writer James Lasdun often explores the dark world of paranoia and inner torment. That's also the case...
Thursday, March 14, 2013 | Categories:
Oxford ethicist Brian Earp on his research into the therapeutic use of anti-love and love drugs. Writer James Lasdun, author...
Wednesday, March 13, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
Timothy Olyphant has played a variety of roles throughout his career, many of them bad guys. His latest turn is as the...
Wednesday, March 13, 2013 | Categories:
A look at the controversy and demonstrations in Berlin over the demolition of a remaining portion of the Berlin Wall....
Wednesday, March 13, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
Nathan Sawaya raised a few eyebrows when he decided to quit his high-paying law career and become a Lego artist....
Wednesday, March 13, 2013 | Categories:
Leading up to Jian's conversation with HiddenMenu.com's Kathrina Manalac on the rise of secret menus, particularly in fast food joints,...
Q is headed back to New York City for a sold-out live audience show. Additional guests now confirmed: pop icon...
Tuesday, March 12, 2013 | Categories:
Misee Harris on why she wants to become the first African-American candidate on mainstream reality show The Bachelorette, followed by...
Tuesday, March 12, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
Toronto folk-veteran Hayden was surprised to find out his Wikipedia page listed him as dead. However, he was just off...
Massachusetts is currently slugging it out over whether Modern Lovers' "Roadrunner" and Aerosmith's "Dream On" should be the State's official...
We're heading to Regina for a special live-audience edition of Q as part of this year's JUNOfest! The show will...
This week on Q Monday Kate Nash Tuesday Hayden Wednesday Timothy Olyphant Thursday Love Drugs Friday Media Panel See the...
Monday, March 11, 2013 | Categories:
As several states legalize marijuana, Mother Jones writer Josh Harkinson looks at the question of how high is too high...
Monday, March 11, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
As more US states consider the legalization of marijuana, Mother Jones staff writer Josh Harkinson explores the increasingly hazy debate...
UK songstress Kate Nash stopped by Studio Q to play a couple songs from her brand new album Girl Talk....
We're big supporters of great new Canadian music here at Q. And that's why we're excited to be part of Searchlight,...
Friday, March 8, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
Bruce McCulloch, of Kids in the Hall fame, reflects on his journey from young drunk punk in Alberta to pajama-clad dad in the...
Thursday, March 7, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
We had so many requests for this morning's opening essay on Stompin' Tom Connors, we've decided to post the text...
Thursday, March 7, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
Actor/writer/director Zach Braff stopped by Studio Q to chat about his career, his love of the theatre and his exciting...
Thursday, March 7, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
With the news that Stompin' Tom Connors has died, we present a special tribute on Q, with some of the...
Wednesday, March 6, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
With a career spanning four decades, versatile actor and singer Mandy Patinkin has earned countless accolades for his roles on...
Tuesday, March 5, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
Eddie Huang is a chef and owner of Baohaus restaurant in New York City, and the host of a food...
Tuesday, March 5, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
In the wake of the mass shooting at an elementary school in Newtown, the state government in Connecticut is considering...
Monday, March 4, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
Andy Carvin is NPR's Senior Strategist, which means he spends a lot of time on twitter. He's been known to...
MONDAY: Journalist and NPR social media strategist Andy Carvin. He's been called a "living, breathing, real-time verification system" for his...
Friday, March 1, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
Jian and CBC Radio 2 host Tom Power go head to head over Tom's claim that The Wallflowers version of...
Friday, March 1, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
A few weeks back, Rabbi Susan Silverman was one of 10 women detained by police at the Western Wall for...
Thursday, February 28, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
Martin Short on Seth MacFarlane, the Oscars and his role promoting Canadian talent as the host of the first ever...
Wednesday, February 27, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
Rebecca Marino was hailed as Canada's next big tennis star, but off the court she was suffering from a debilitating...
Tuesday, February 26, 2013 | Categories:
Jian talks to Josh Groban about his new album "All That Echoes" and his increasingly expanding career as an actor....
Monday, February 25, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
The 85th annual Academy Awards took place yesterday evening. On the morning after, Q's illustrious Oscar Panel -- Johanna Schneller,...
MONDAY: Guardian journalist, James Ball, on a newly discovered software that is drawing the ire of civil liberty groups, Rapid...
Friday, February 22, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
The Tweet Hereafter is a website that compiles the last social media postings of people notable in life or in...
Michael Bolton, the aching-heart balladeer, surprised everyone a couple of years ago with an addictive comedic collaboration with The Lonely Island...
Thursday, February 21, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
Indigo Girls, the Grammy-winning folk rock icons, stop by Studio Q for a feature chat and performance. They had their...
MONDAY: Best of Q! Are North American children's playgrounds too safe? European playground manufacturer Harry Harbottle explains why Europe takes...
Wednesday, February 20, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
Country music superstar Tim McGraw on his new hit album Two Lanes of Freedom and how his life changed at...
Over the last 15 years, Josh Ritter has become one of the most respected songwriters in the Americana genre. And...
Between her best-selling cookbooks, TV specials, apps, cookware line and online community, British food maven Nigella Lawson has built something...
Monday, February 18, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
It's a holiday in much of Canada, so we present a special Best of Q episode. Jian talks to Kathleen...
After a week of passionate debate, the winner of Canada Reads 2013: Turf Wars has been crowned....
Thursday, February 14, 2013 | Categories:
Writer and comedian Josh Gondelman on his adventures buying fake online girlfriends. A Q debate: is internet dating replacing commitment...
Thursday, February 14, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
Listen to our special, Valentine's edition of the show with guest host Jann Arden. Is online dating bad for relationships?...
Wednesday, February 13, 2013 | Categories: Music, Q Blog
Canadian chanteuse Jill Barber has set her sights on the language of love with a new album of classic French...
Tuesday, February 12, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
It's been 15 years since Ross Rebagliati won the first ever gold medal in Olympic Snowboarding. He also became the...
Monday, February 11, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
Anna Cootes, the head of Social Policy at The New Economics Foundation, makes the case for the 4-day work week....
MONDAY: Terry O'Reilly guest hosts! Anna Cootes, of the UK-based think tank The New Economics Foundation, on why fewer working...
Toronto-based singer, songwriter and guitarist Chloe Charles has earned acclaim in Europe for her classical guitar stylings, orchestral-meets-folk pop sound...
Friday, February 8, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
Kim Dotcom -- the New Zealand-based founder of Megaupload -- is facing extradition to the United States and 50 years...
Friday, February 8, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
Chris Hadfield, the Canadian astronaut and Ed Robertson have been involved in a unique musical collaboration. They've written a song...
Friday, February 8, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
This past Wednesday, Boy Scouts of America was expected to make a decision whether or not to end a ban...
Thursday, February 7, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
Jian talks to Canadian tennis star Milos Raonic about his Davis Cup win, and becoming the highest ranked Canadian...
Thursday, February 7, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
Dr. William Davis, author of the runaway best-seller, Wheat Belly, argues that far from being a "healthy whole grain", wheat...
Wednesday, February 6, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
Legendary Canadian movie producer, Robert Lantos talks about Starlight - the all-Canadian TV network he's proposing to the CRTC....
Wednesday, February 6, 2013 | Categories: Music, Q Blog
Buke and Gase is the musical brainchild of New York's Arone Dyer and Aron Sanchez. Their name derives from the...
UPDATE: This show is now SOLD OUT. Thanks to all who bought tickets! There will be a rush line. Keep...
Tuesday, February 5, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
Legendary drummer of Nirvana and Foo Fighters front man, Dave Grohl, has turned director. His first film Sound City examines one of...
Tuesday, February 5, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
Tomorrow, former boxer Mike Tyson will guest star on the NBC crime drama Law & Order: SVU (Special Victim's Unit)....
Monday, February 4, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
Cissy Houston, the Grammy-winning soul and gospel singer speaks to Jian one year after the death of her daughter, Whitney...
MONDAY: Canadian women's hockey captain Hayley Wickenheiser on heading toward the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia...one year from this week....
Q taped a special live audience show at a packed McIntyre Performing Arts Centre in Hamilton, Ontario Thursday night. Hamilton's...
Veteran punk rockers Bad Religion have just released their 16th full length album, "True North." Front man Greg Graffin stopped...
Wednesday, January 30, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
Tomorrow night, after seven seasons of mocking pop culture, 30 Rock will come to an end. It's been a good...
Wednesday, January 30, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
Canadian hip hop artist k-os on his new double-album, "Black on Blonde" and how rock music feeds his new sound....
Wednesday, January 30, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
Canadian hip hop artist k-os on his new double-album, "Black on Blonde" and how rock music feeds his new sound....
Monday, January 28, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
Tegan and Sara on their decision to leave the quiet, heartbroken songs behind to make their brand new dance-pop-inspired album,...
Tipping anywhere between 15% and 25% on your restaurant bill is ingrained in the culture of North America, but University...
They formed just over a year ago, but London UK band Palma Violets are ready for big things. Their 2012...
Friday, January 25, 2013 | Categories:
MONDAY: Professor and author Karima Bennoune on the devastating effects the fundamentalist takeover of Northern Mali has had on the...
Friday, January 25, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
On today's show, writer/columnist Ken Campbell talked about his new book "Selling The Dream: How Hockey Parents and their Kids...
Friday, January 25, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield joins Jian from the final frontier. He's currently serving on board the International Space Station. Throughout...
Thursday, January 24, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
Following news that Beyonce had lip-synched her perfect performance at the presidential inauguration, Jian opened today's show with an essay...
Thursday, January 24, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
Vancouver artist and student Rosea Lake on her viral image, "Judgments."...
Thursday, January 24, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
Popular self-help author Timothy Ferriss tackles a new topic with his 4-hour philosophy in his latest book "The 4-Hour Chef." Hear him...
Wednesday, January 23, 2013 | Categories: Music, Q Blog
Ben Caplan and The Casual Smokers turn in two rousing performances, live in Studio Q....
Wednesday, January 23, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
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Toronto's Mychael Danna has been composing for film for over 25 years. But his latest work in Ang Lee's Life...
Monday, January 21, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
Jian talks to Sarah Polley about her decision to explore the nature of storytelling by exposing one of her most...
MONDAY: Q's sports culture panel, today with Mary Ormsby and Dave Bidini, reacts to the Lance Armstrong interview fallout, the strange case...
Friday, January 18, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
Jian's opening essay on Lance Armstrong's doping confession in an interview with Oprah Winfrey....
Flamenco guitar virtuoso Paco Peña dropped by studio Q today as our Friday Live guest. The internationally renowned guitarist is...
This month, UK online tech magazine The Kernel is hosting Trollwatch, a campaign to put online harassment at bay by...
Emily Esfahani Smith calls for a return to chivalry because, she argues, feminists have upended the rules so thoroughly that...
Tuesday, January 15, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
Food writer Mark Bittman objects to Beyonce's new $50-million deal with Pepsi....
Tuesday, January 15, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
Would we be better off if we disconnected from our devices and re-connected with real-world human beings? Or do you...
Cultural critic Katie Roiphe takes aim at the overly safe, overly conventional ways we live our lives today in her...
MONDAY: Essayist Katie Roiphe on her collection In Praise of Messy Lives, a critique of what she sees as the...
Friday, January 11, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
Buzkashi Boys is one of the hidden gems in this year's Oscar race, nominated for Best Short Film (Live...
Friday, January 11, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
Do you really need to home roast your beans? How about hand-grind them? Is foam art really necessary? There's a growing...
Luke Doucet and Melissa McClelland are the husband and wife duo who make up the band Whitehorse. Their off-stage chemistry shines...
Our Oscar panel -- Brian D. Johnson of Maclean's, Johanna Schneller of the Globe and Mail, and Katherine Monk of Postmedia...
Wednesday, January 9, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
Described as a "Middle Eastern Pink Panther," Jimmy Vestvood: Amerikan Hero is a new film project from Iranian-American comedian Maz...
Wednesday, January 9, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
In his powerful debut documentary How to Survive a Plague, award-winning journalist David France captures HIV/AIDS -- the epidemic he's...
Tuesday, January 8, 2013 | Categories:
Jian's tribute to David Bowie, who continues to surprise, with a new single on his 66th birthday....
Tuesday, January 8, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
Acclaimed graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister is touring a new exhibition, "The Happy Show", which features his rules for happiness. From "Starting...
Young actress Quvenzhane Wallis is getting some huge oscar buzz for her heart-breaking performance in the film Beasts of the Southern Wild....
MONDAY: Can young kids really be considered actors? With a potential Oscar nomination on the horizon for Quvenzhané Wallis, who...
Thursday, January 3, 2013 | Categories: Q Blog
Essayist Bill Deresiewicz recently made the case that food is replacing art as "High Culture" today, and that might be...
They are the go-to solution for governments the world over, and their numbers have only increased since the Berlin Wall came...
After a year of kick-ass music, and a month of counting down our favourite releases, we've arrived at #1 on...
Divine Fits may be comprised of members of Spoon, Wolf Parade, Handsome Furs and New Bomb Turks, but they're quick...
In a Canadian exclusive, British author J.K. Rowling, the wildly successful woman behind the Harry Potter book series, opens up...
Kenny Rogers stopped by Studio Q for a feature chat about his new memoir, Luck or Something Like It. It...
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