Q with Tom Power

Shania Twain is one of the best-selling artists to ever come out of Canada. Her new album, Little Miss Twain, revisits her early years growing up in Timmins, Ontario, performing in bars, and being managed by her mother. Tom Power travelled to Los Angeles to sit down with Shania in a career-spanning interview that starts in Timmins and traces her path to global stardom. Shania opens up about the di...

When Adam Gontier resigned as the frontman of Three Days Grace back in 2013, he couldn’t have imagined coming back to the band — and fronting it with his bandmate Matt Walst. Tom Power speaks to Adam and Matt about their reunion and the band’s new lineup, as well as how generations of fans fueled their massive Spotify success.

Not long ago, Misan Harriman was working a job in recruitment that just didn’t feel right. But when he picked up a camera and started sharing his photos online, they went viral. Misan is a British photographer and activist, whose photographs of both the Black Lives Matter and Palestine solidarity movements have been seen by millions. Now, there’s a new documentary about his work called Shoot the P...

After 11 years, Alexander Shelley has stepped down as the National Arts Centre Orchestra’s music director. Alexander sits down with Tom Power in Ottawa’s Southam Hall to talk about how he was able to use music to tell stories that showed so many different sides of the country, as well as how he created performances that reflect the world we live in today.

Fiona Sauder has made a name reimagining classic literature for the stage today. The multi-Dora Award winner is now turning their attention to Kenneth Grahame’s novel, The Wind in the Willows. Fiona joins guest host Gill Deacon in the Q studio to talk about her new Shaw Festival production, and why they think kids’ worldviews are a superpower that adults need to tap back into.

David Wain is an American comedian, director and actor, best known for the 2001 cult classic film, Wet Hot American Summer. His new movie, Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass, is about a small town girl who travels to Hollywood to settle the score with her fiancé. David speaks with Q guest host Gill Deacon about making this new film, and celebrating the 25th anniversary of Wet Hot American Su...

In a special Q recording, Tom Power interviewed Jesse Armstrong at the Banff World Media Festival in front of a live audience. Jesse talks about his award-winning writing, directing, and showrunning on hits like Succession, Peep Show, The Thick of It, and Mountainhead. Plus, Jesse opens up about why he left his career in politics for TV, why he is so drawn to writing about power, and why satire is...

Montreal-born, Nashville-based Allison Russell is a Grammy- and Juno Award-winning singer-songwriter, actor, and human rights advocate. Her new album is called In the Hour of Chaos, and on it, she taps friends and collaborators to help her make sense of a world in chaos, and to find solace in the joy of creating. Allison joins Tom Power to talk about the album and to look back on performing a trib...

Michael Cloud Duguay and his collaborators toured rural towns in Newfoundland looking for something very specific to record: old organs in churches that are experiencing dwindling attendance. The result is a haunting album that serves both as rich sound art featuring the remaining organs of Newfoundland, but also as documentation of community, memory and faith — both religious and otherwise.

Zoe Whittall is constantly changing her writing. She’s written novels, short story collections, memoir, and TV. And now she’s switching genres again — to romance. But her first romance novel, Chasing Summer, comes with another change: her name. Zoe wrote this book under the pseudonym Frankie Scott. Tom Power talks to Zoe about how she’s constantly changing her writing style, her name, and even her...

Andy Hines talks to Tom Power about his feature film Little Lorraine, based on a true story about a drug smuggling ring in 1980s Nova Scotia. He gets into why it was important for his first movie to take place in the Maritimes (where he’s from), and how he got Colombian singer J Balvin involved — and all the way to Cape Breton Island.

It’s André Sills’s biggest season yet at Ontario’s Stratford Festival. The award-winning actor is taking on two of Shakespeare’s most iconic roles: Oberon, the King of the Fairies in A Midsummer Night's Dream, and the title role in Othello, one of Shakespeare’s most powerful and controversial tragedies. André joins Tom to talk about travelling to Italy, Cyprus and Morocco to prepare for Othello, a...

Mae Martin has made us laugh with their stand-up comedy, made us cry in shows like Feel Good, and now they're being honoured with the Creative Voice Award at the Banff World Media Festival. Before the big honour, Mae sat down with Tom Power for a fast-paced round of Getting to Know Q, answering everything from Banff-inspired hiking questions to their karaoke pick and which Canadian TV show they'd...

Carole Pope is one of Canada’s first queer female rock stars. In the ’70s and ’80s, Carole’s band Rough Trade was known for their political outspokenness, sexually charged lyrics and bold live performances. Rough Trade broke new ground and faced both censorship and acclaim. Now, a new documentary traces Carole’s story from shy, bookish adolescent to international queer icon. Carole tells Tom Power...

Evanescence has released their sixth studio album, Sanctuary, and some fans are calling it their best work since their breakthrough record in 2003. Evanescence frontwoman Amy Lee tells Tom Power about finding new creative energy within the band, taking artistic risks at this point in her life, and learning to fall in love again with the music that changed everything for her 23 years ago.

A new Canadian play is reimagining the ancient Greek myth of Medusa and giving the gorgon a voice. Oyin Oladejo is playing the snake-haired lead in the Toronto production of Medusa. Oyin joins Tom in the studio to talk about the play, and why this show stares deeply into female fury.

Jack Innanen has tapped into the zeitgeist with his viral TikTok sketches, earning him the title of “the internet’s boyfriend.” His millions of followers have since watched him make the leap into acting with roles in comedies like Adults and Big Mistakes. As Jack tells Tom Power in a special interview in Banff, Alberta, it’s collaborating with fellow Canadians on projects with deeper meaning that...

Gail Maurice wrote and directed her latest film, Blood Lines, with her hometown of Beauval, Saskatchewan, in mind. Some of the film's dialogue is spoken in Michif — a Métis language spoken fluently by fewer than 2,000 people — so Gail cast family and friends from her 700-person village, creating a deeply personal portrayal of her culture. She joins Tom Power in studio to discuss what it was like w...

Anna Lambe almost walked away from acting before landing her starring role in North of North. She had headed to Ottawa to study international development, deciding to focus less on acting and more on her activism for Indigenous rights. But it was the pull of North of North’s characters — with their genuine depth and nuance of Indigenous experiences — that finally brought her back to the screen. An...

Vancouver duo True Mountain Laurel introduces their debut album’s title track, Angel So Bad, in Q’s recurring New Music segment. The album is out everywhere on August 28.

In November, we took the show on the road all the way to Tom Power’s hometown of St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador! This special live taping of Q took place at the historic St. John’s Arts and Culture Centre, featuring performances and interviews with musician Alan Doyle formerly of Great Big Sea, opera singer Deantha Edmunds, comedian Rick Mercer, actors Allan Hawco and Joséphine Jobert, and...

Deborah Cox is one of the most celebrated voices in music, with a career that spans chart-topping hits, Grammy nominations, acclaimed performances on screen and on stage. She’s back on Broadway in the Tony-nominated hit Titaníque, playing the Unsinkable Molly Brown. The story is a funny retelling of James Cameron’s Titanic, told through the perspective and music of Céline Dion. Deborah joins Tom P...

Vancouver’s bbno$ has racked up millions of followers across platforms for his funny raps and witty commentary on internet culture today. After going viral in 2019, he’s managed to keep the success going with a string of hits that have landed him two Juno Awards, a slot on Jimmy Kimmel Live and the ability to tour the world. bbno$ joins Tom Power in studio to talk about how a rugby injury led to h...

The Canadian comedian Tom Green has been a huge presence in the comedy world for decades — from his cable-access days doing The Tom Green Show, to his almost 20 years in Los Angeles with his late-night at-home talk show, to his many stand-up tours and his movie Freddy Got Fingered. Now, Tom has a new series on Crave called The Tom Green Farm, where he interviews guests on his farm in rural Ontario...

Carley Fortune says she had one firm line when it came to the Amazon Prime adaptation of her debut novel: it had to stay in Canada. In the end, the series Every Year After stayed rooted in the same country as her books. In a special interview from Banff, Alberta, Tom Power sits down with the bestselling author behind Every Summer After and Our Perfect Storm to talk about why the setting is never j...