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Every year, the Canadian Music Class Challenge inspires classes across Canada to offer up their best performances of some of Canada's great songs. Today on q, the 2018 winners of the High School Vocal category talk to Tom Power about their song pick.

Today on q: director Adam McKay, q screen panel with John Semley and Tina Hassannia, Robin Dann of the band Bernice, Broadway star Daphne Rubin-Vega.

McKay talks about the challenges of making a film about the elusive former U.S. vice-president and how the process helped him find compassion for those with different political viewpoints.

The hit podcast The Horror of Dolores Roach is led by Broadway star Daphne Rubin-Vega, best-known as one of the original cast of Rent. She reprises her role from a critically acclaimed one-woman show and examines gentrification, policing and race.

Robin Dann of the experimental pop band Bernice discusses her thoughts about ASMR and previews this auditory phenomenon for listeners.

The q screen panel's John Semley and Tina Hassannia share their picks for what you should be watching over the holidays.

Today on q: Hereditary director Ari Aster, q This with Lisa Christiansen and Cadence Weapon, William Prince’s Peguis First Nation Block Party, Canadian YouTuber Elle Mills.

Aster talks to Tom Power about the reaction to his highly-anticipated feature debut, Hereditary, which some are calling the scariest movie of 2018.

Canadian YouTuber Elle Mills talks about fast success and burnout.

Our q This music panellists share their personal picks for best song, artist, album and music moment from the past year.

In this edition of the q Block Party, Canadian singer-songwriter William Prince shares a playlist of songs that remind him of his hometown, the Peguis First Nation in Manitoba.

Today on q: Olympic ice dancing champions Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir, rapper and children's author Raj Haldar a.k.a. Lushlife, former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada Beverley McLachlin, "the Banksy of monuments" artist Joe Reginella.

Olympic ice dancing champions Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir join guest host Ali Hassan to look back at their journey from being childhood skating partners to the most decorated figure skaters in Olympic history.

The culture of ‘cancelling’ problematic people and things hit its stride in 2018, with it's targets including Kanye West, Taylor Swift and Kevin Hart, but going up against Christmas songs proved to be its biggest challenge.

Raj Haldar (a.k.a. Philadelphia rapper Lushlife) talks about the unexpected popularity of his new children's book, which he jokingly calls "the worst alphabet book ever."

A mysterious statue of a longshoreman kneeling over the corpse of an alien has appeared in Manhattan's Battery Park. The man responsible for the monument is Joe Reginella. He joins guest host Ali Hassan to talk about his renegade public art projects.

In this edition of the q Block Party, former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, Beverley McLachlin, shares the songs that remind her of Vancouver.

Today on q: writer, magazine editor and actor Tavi Gevinson, online panel with Buzzfeed's Elamin Abdelmahmoud and The New York Times' Amanda Hess, the story behind Handel’s Messiah, singer-songwriter Lindsey Jordan of Snail Mail.

After seven years, Rookie Magazine is shutting down. Tavi Gevinson reflects on starting the popular online magazine at 15 years old, why free content isn't sustainable in the age of social media, and what's ahead.

Snail Mail is on almost every tastemaker's year-end music list for 2018. It's the project of singer-songwriter Lindsey Jordan, who dropped by with her band to perform from their debut album Lush and to talk about Snail Mail's whirlwind year.