ArtsShad is the perfect anti-Jian Ghomeshi. But is that a good thing for Q?He’s a likeable, functional, multicultural star, but CBC’s choice of Shad as the new host of Q suggests the network hasn’t learned much from its mistakes
ArtsWhy Shad is an ideal choice for CBC’s QNewsmaker, March 11: The award-winning rapper is a great choice to host the marquee culture show. Will a great idea in theory work in execution?
On CampusJian Ghomeshi’s advice for studentsI was jack-of-all-trades and master of none. But it worked.
GeneralDandy in the afterworldPost-Wildean British artist/writer/dandy Sebastian Horsley has died of an apparent heroin overdose. The good people at Q have...
GeneralThe Re-framing of Stephen HarperJust because you haven’t heard enough of Stephen Harper’s Ringo impression last weekend, the Ottawa Citizen today had dueling...
General"Brezhnev in toe shoes"That’s how PJ O’Rourke described Obama’s governing style, today on Radio Q . No podcast yet, but I hope they’ll have it up...
GeneralFully, GhomeshiIf you have the slightest interest in music in this country, go right now and listen to Jian Ghomeshi interviewing Gord Downie on...
UncategorizedJian Ghomeshi, host laureate of Oscar punditryYou gotta love a morning radio man who’s typing after midnight, and rhyming "pristine" with "Joaquin"