Buffy Sainte-Marie saw Arcade Fire receive the Allan Waters Humanitarian Award at last year's Juno Awards and, she says, "they'd be a hard act to follow."

But, of course, Sainte-Marie's decades of activism deserves an award of its own. This year, Sainte-Marie will take home that same title and, at our live show at the Bronson Centre Theatre, she tells Tom Power: "I'm very grateful that anybody has taken the time to notice the things that have been meaningful to me aside from music, and within music."

Listen as Sainte-Marie discusses her years of writing love songs alongside her powerful protest songs, why she doesn't have a career down in the U.S. and her latest collaboration with Tanya Tagaq.