Drake rivals 'Joe Canada' cliché with Jared

q's pop culture panel weighs in on the worthy, contentious, and mind-boggling stories from the week in arts and entertainment. Opinionated and irreverent, our panel takes pop culture seriously (but not too seriously).

Today's panellists are journalists Rachel Giese, Stephen Marche and culture writer Max Mohenu. Up for discussion: 

• Drake drops a canoe-load of Canadian references on Saturday Night Live. Could he be our pop culture Prime Minister? Or the poster boy for Toronto as an emerging black city? "I was crying. It was so, so funny" says Max. "This is what makes Drake such a cultural phenomenon." (Watch the Black Jeopardy sketch here.) 
  
• Sex assault allegations follow Woody Allen to Cannes as his estranged son Dylan Farrow writes a damning column. Rachel wonders why his female collaborators, like Kristen Stewart, seem to take more heat than Allen himself. "Why is this 25-year-old woman being asked tougher questions than the director who was actually accused of sexual abuse?" Stephen wonders if it's impossible to enjoy art if you don't separate it from the ethics of the artist. "Most interesting people are not morally pure." 
  
• 212 rapper Azealia Banks has apologized for a barrage of tweets she unleashed at former One Direction member Zayn Malik. Was Twitter right to shut her down her account? "I think part of it is a very legitimate anger ... [but] I also think that people are kind of getting off on this young black women being a bit unhinged," says Rachel.