Episodes

  • Losing her voice taught Melanie Fiona to speak up for herself
    Jun 2 2025

    After over a decade away from the spotlight, Canadian singer Melanie Fiona is back with an EP. “Say Yes” is her first record since she won a Grammy for her 2012 album, “This MF Life”. She tells Tom Power how her intense burnout and time off was a gift from god, and why her EP is about saying yes again after all these years of saying no.

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    22 mins
  • The wrestling saga at the heart of The Halluci Nation’s new EP
    Jun 2 2025

    When Bear Witness and Tim “2oolman” Hill of The Halluci Nation watched wrestling as kids, they had to look past stereotypes and tropes to find Indigenous heroes in the ring. Now, their new EP “Path of The Baby Face” uses wrestling to tell a more empowering story. The music duo tell guest host Talia Schlanger about their collaboration with wrestling icon Bret “The Hitman” Hart. Plus, they discuss the ways they support and care for each other.

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    20 mins
  • Wiz Khalifa found peace in not needing praise
    May 30 2025

    Wiz Khalifa just dropped his latest album ‘Kush + Orange Juice 2,’ the sequel to his 2010 mixtape that introduced him to the world. Khalifa joins Tom to talk about his early days as a hip-hop artist, why he’s never cared about being a celebrity, and what important lessons he learned from Snoop Dogg.

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    25 mins
  • Sister Ray trades rejection for joy on their new album Believer
    May 30 2025

    The Alberta folk singer-songwriter Sister Ray is known for writing songs about heartbreak and sadness. But they decided to try something different with their new album “Believer”— their latest record is all about love and connection. Ella Coyes of Sister Ray tells Tom Power about how “freeing” it is to write about joy, how growing up around Métis art influenced their love of music, and why they think the embarrassing parts of being human is what connects us most.

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    24 mins
  • Why Sook-Yin Lee adapted her ex’s memoir about paying for sex
    May 29 2025

    In Sook-Yin Lee’s film, “Paying For It,” a couple whose romantic attraction is waning decide to open up their relationship. While Sonny explores dating, her introverted boyfriend, Chester, opts to hire sex workers. The story is based on Sook-Yin’s real-life former relationship with Canadian cartoonist Chester Brown, who released a bestselling graphic memoir of the same name in 2011. It reflects on intimacy, connection, the rights of sex workers, the boundaries we put around relationships, and Toronto in the ‘90s. Sook-Yin joins Tom Power to talk about the movie and what she learned in the process of making it. Plus, she discusses her early work as a MuchMusic VJ, and how she struggled to deal with the slow cultural shift from alternative music to boy bands.

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    25 mins
  • Amy Millan realized grief didn’t need to be a secret, so she wrote an album about it
    May 29 2025

    Amy Millan from the band Stars is back with her first solo record in fifteen years. Millan tells Tom how her album “I Went To Find You” was inspired by the loss of her father at five years old. Plus, she tells the story behind her new song “Make Way for Waves.”

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    25 mins
  • Justice’s best advice for artists: revel in your mistakes
    May 28 2025

    You might not remember every song on the radio from 2007, but if you were anywhere near a club or dancefloor, you might remember the electronic duo Justice. Their debut album, with that glowing cross on the front, was impossible to ignore. Justice redefined electronic music for a new generation, and became one of the most influential acts of their time. The members of the band, Gaspard Augé and Xavier de Rosnay, join Q guest host Garvia Bailey to talk about what’s changed since then, why they’re not interested in nostalgia, and what it takes to keep making great music as you get older.

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    24 mins
  • What chess has in common with dance
    May 28 2025

    Jennifer Archibald is one of North America’s busiest and most in-demand choreographers. At the end of May, she’ll debut her first piece for the National Ballet of Canada called “Kings Fall,” one of nine world premieres that she’ll go on this season. Archibald tells Tom Power about the commonality between chess and dance, and the ‘documentary ballet’ genre she’s become known for.

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    15 mins
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