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q's pop culture panel on the VMAs, beauty pageants and Wes Craven

At issue today: What's behind the antics at the VMAs? Is a beauty pageant victory ever a win? What is Wes Craven's legacy?
Seasoned disrupter Miley Cyrus hosted 2015 MTV Video Music Awards in Los Angeles. (Danny Moloshok/Reuters)

q's pop culture panel — this week, Nathalie Atkinson of the Globe and the Mail, National Post's Emily Keeler and Esquire columnist Stephen Marche takes on the worthy, contentious, and crazy stories from the week in arts and entertainment.

At issue today:

  • A presidential bid from a high Kanye West. Blatant hostility between Miley Cyrus and Nicki Minaj. Is it time to stop giving the MTV Music Video Awards the attention so they so clearly crave? 
  • The international pageant for married women just crowned a First Nations contestant from Alberta. She's got a platform for her views — but is winning a beauty pageant really a victory? 

  • Following the death of horror director Wes Craven, we look back at his work and legacy.