Vivian Rashotte

Vivian Rashotte is a digital producer, writer and photographer for Q with Tom Power. She's also a visual artist. You can reach her at vivian.rashotte@cbc.ca.

Latest from Vivian Rashotte

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How Mark McKinney became Mark Carney

The Kids in the Hall alum sits down with Q’s Tom Power to talk about playing the Liberal leader on This Hour Has 22 Minutes.
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'It's like divorce': Mark Hoppus on Blink-182's breakup and how cancer reunited them

The Blink-182 bassist joins Q’s Tom Power to talk about his new memoir, Fahrenheit-182, in which he opens up about his parents’ divorce, his instant connection with Tom DeLonge, and his devastating cancer diagnosis.
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For Deepa Mehta, the whole point of filmmaking is 'to start a dialogue'

The Indian-born Canadian director sits down with Q’s Tom Power for a career-spanning conversation about her most prominent films of the past 35 years — and why the last thing she wants to be called is controversial.
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Iconic drummer Mike Portnoy says he owes it all to Rush

For 40 years, Portnoy has been the driving force behind the prog rock band Dream Theater. In an interview with Q’s Tom Power, he talks about Rush’s massive influence on them.
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Ray Mendoza made Warfare to help a real-life Navy SEAL who lost his memory in Iraq

The harrowing new film Warfare takes a realistic look at a platoon of Navy SEALs on a mission gone wrong in Iraq in 2006. Co-director Ray Mendoza and actor D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai join Q’s Tom Power to talk about the importance of telling this story as true to life as possible.
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'I can't live up to that': The Chosen's Jonathan Roumie on the pressures of playing Jesus

In an interview with Q guest host Garvia Bailey, the actor reflects on the impossibly high expectations that come with portraying humanity’s ‘ultimate role model.’
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Tim Key says Carey Mulligan was the key to unlocking The Ballad of Wallis Island as a feature film

The British comedian joins Q’s Tom Power to talk about adapting his 2007 short film into a full-length movie.
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Anoushka Shankar wants you to hear the sitar differently

The daughter of legendary sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar sits down with Q’s Tom Power to talk about changing people’s perception of her instrument and her music.
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Kenny Robinson is 'elbows up' for Canadian comedians

The founder of the Nubian Comedy Revue sits down with Q guest host Garvia Bailey to talk about the show’s 30-year legacy, and what he thinks sets Canadian comics apart from American comics.
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Hüsker Dü's Bob Mould explains the role Montreal had in shaping him as an artist

The pioneering American punk musician, best known as a co-founder of the band Hüsker Dü, joins Q guest host Garvia Bailey to look back on his life in music, and how a Ramones concert in Montreal changed everything.