As you may have heard, on Wednesday (Nov. 25) Q has the privilege hosting two of the most prominent environmental activists and spokespeople in the world: former U.S. vice-president Al Gore and scientist and broadcaster Dr. David Suzuki. They will be here together in Studio Q.

And we'd like you to get in on this unique conversation.

If you have a question for Al Gore and David Suzuki, we'd love to hear it. If you had a chance to address these two, what's the single most pressing question that you would you ask them?

Post it here.

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The EYE WRITER is allowing ALS patients like legendary graffiti artist Tony Quan aka TEMPT ONE to continue doing their art. The video on the site outlines the creation of the apparatus and the images of Quan tagging from his bed are very moving. The breakthrough is particularly notable for being created without a national research grant using stuff anyone can buy at the hardware store. Check out extra information about the project courtesy of the people at
FREE ART AND TECHNOLOGY.

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You've seen the commercials. You've heard the various parties slug it out in front of the CRTC. It's time for an informal vote in The Great Canadian TV Battle. Who has won you over -- Team TV Broadcasters ("Save Local TV!") or Team Cable and Satellite Companies ("Stop the TV Tax!")? Judgments can be based on the competitors' TV commercials, sound bites, performance on Q today or just your gut feeling.

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Just as disaster strikes the big screen, again, in the form of "2012", Q Screenboy Jesse Wente risks disaster (and your scathing opinions) with another top five best and worst list. Let the disaster begin! And let us know what YOU think the appeal is of the on-screen disaster.

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Today on Q, we picked up on a debate sparked by some recent Britney Spears concerts in Australia. Her dance-heavy live shows rely on a mix of lip-synching and real singing... which has led the Australian government to consider forcing Spears and other performers to issue a disclaimer on tickets, advising concert goers that the show isn't entirely live. Should concert promoters be forced to issue a disclaimer on tickets if the singing isn't fully live? When you go to a big live concert -- do you expect to hear live singing, or do you just want to see a really good show?

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Today on Q, Joe Dolce of the Dot Gay Alliance explained his quest to bring ".gay" online as a new top-level domain. That would mean millions of new websites ending in .gay, like "www.hotels.gay" or "www.montreal.gay." The internet is expanding, and new top-level domains will soon take their places alongside ".com" and ".ca" ...but should ".gay" be one of them? And what other new top-level domains would you like to see online?

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BFF, or 'Best Friend Forever', is a confusing relationship tag for many reasons. Least of which, it's hard to say without sounding like a Valley Girl. Although it has usurped 'Bromance', the latter term left a little more latitude if things went sour. Nonetheless, what is the exact criteria of a primary best friendship? Do we have to know everything about our BFF for it to be true? Consider this while watching the second season of BFF and lemme know...More links after the click...

UPDATE: I didn't get a chance to say on-air that BFF is a notable web show because it is a traditional-looking GAME show, something you don't really get a lot of on the net despite the fact that cyberspace is like one big contest. It's a bit of a guilty pleasure but I was hooked as it made me ponder the nature and substance of friendship...

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The gates between East and West opened on this day two decades ago. Some say it was the most significant historical event of the last 50 years. What do you think had the biggest impact on the course of history? Vietnam? The moon landing? The attacks of September 11, 2001? Or was it the fall of the wall?

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Author and journalist Nick Carr has been working on that question that seems to be on everyone's mind. And he's coming up with some troubling answers. On the show today he said we're losing our ability to think deeply and to concentrate in the ways we need to because of the way the Internet trains us to absorb information in fast-paced little bits. And he says that change could lead to the loss of our appreciation of many of our greatest cultural touchstones, like, say, reading... Do you agree?

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When I was a kid, Cookie Monster gave me a signed photograph so my VOTE FOR BEST SESAME STREET SEGMENT from the past four decades goes to "C is for Cookie" if it makes the shortlist for next week's slate of choices from the '70s.

Check out the already-posted videos from the 2000s, '90s and '80s, rack your brain for gems from the '70s and lemme know what you think is best...

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The casting of 13-year-old Abigail Breslin (of Little Miss Sunshine fame) in the role of Helen Keller in an upcoming Broadway production of The Miracle Worker is causing controversy on the Great White Way. Critics are arguing that an able-bodied actress should not have been cast without first auditioning a deaf or blind actress. What do you think? Are producers right that audiences prefer to see able-bodied actors in these roles? And if so, what's with that?

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Check out my Jian-and-Mio-as-Harold-and-Kumar poster after the jump...

You can have a horrific time any day online but check out FEAR CLINIC. It's about a bunch of phobics trapped in a sinister asylum forced to confront their worst fears by an evil doctor. Unlike a lot of horror stuff on the web that satirizes the genre, it's legit horror with pedigree thanks to Robert Englund (Freddie from the Nightmare on Elm Street movie franchise) and Kane Hodder (Jason of Friday the 13th fame). It gets real scary in EPISODE 2.

What is your greatest fear?

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The list of Canadian comics who have defected to the U.S. is no joke. And it's happening all over again as a new generation of young Canadian comedy writers are being poached by popular U.S. cable TV programs. Are Canadian comics depriving the domestic arts scene by leaving for the U.S. to write for American shows?

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Ya, you heard him. Ever! Q Screenboy Jesse Wente is sticking his neck out again with another best and worst list, timed to this sporty time of year and to the arrival of a new documentary about basketball star LeBron James and his famed high school team in Ohio. Fans of Caddyshack 2, now's your chance to defend YOUR favourite sports flick.

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The spectre of blackface has been raised several times lately. The latest issue of French Vogue includes a 14-page photo spread featuring Dutch model Lara Stone with her pale-skinned face and body painted black. This comes a couple of weeks after the Australian TV variety show "Hey, Hey, It's Saturday" landed in hot water for its "Jackson Jive" minstrel show segment. The participants have denied any racist intentions. That said, did they go too far? Is blackface ever okay? Give us your thoughts.

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The balloon was empty. But Ballon Boy sure filled up the Internet, and quickly. Is it a meme? Or just a passing
bli(m)p? Decide for yourself by reviewing how the uneventful saga played out online at KNOW YOUR MEME. If the page is a little wonky, as it seems to be this morning, just go to Know Your Meme's HOME PAGE.

Many many big tings after the click...

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Nooooo baby! Calgary Transit has rejected advertising from the city's Glenbow Museum, citing "community standards." The bus ads would have featured a picture of "A Girl," by artist Ron Mueck. You can see the hyper-realist sculpture of a newborn baby girl, complete with blood and umbilical cord, here. Representatives from the Glenbow Museum and Canada's National Gallery weighed in on the controversy today on Q. Now it's your turn. Should this bundle of joy have been allowed to grace Calgary's buses, or is it just a little too realistic an image for your morning commute?

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This movie season is offering several critically lauded movies by women, but no female filmmaker has ever been honoured with the Academy Award for Best Director. Could history be made at the next Oscars? Q's Screenboy Jesse Wente gets his early picks in. (But that doesn't mean you can't add your own. Who would you like to see win an Oscar for her directing prowess?)

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On Monday Q's sports-culture panel tackled the damage caused by concussions. Athletes can sustain a lot of physical punishment...especially in sports such as boxing, football and hockey. The latest issue of The New Yorker features a Malcolm Gladwell piece in which Gladwell reports that the brain damage stemming from concussions seems far more severe than we have realized - and can lead to dementia later in life. What do you think? Do athletes - and sports organizations - need to take head injuries more seriously? How do we decide what's acceptable risk? Should fans be encouraging changes to the game in order to protect athletes? Or does an emphasis on safety threaten the culture of tough that these sports rely on?

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Chris Rock was on Q this week to talk about his new docu-comedy, "Good Hair." According to the film, black people account for 80% of the spending on weaves and hair relaxers in America (that's a $9 billion dollar business)! But this is an industry predominantly controlled by Asian, Indian and white people. White ownership of "black" industries has been the core of several Chris Rock comedy routines in the past. What do you think? How important is it for the race of industrialists to align with the race of the consumers at the other end of the cash register? Do you agree with Rock that social equality would have been achieved more effectively through business clout over societal change?

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