Day 6 with Brent Bambury

Danielle Citron, a law professor at the University of Virginia, says information from certain services, like period-tracking apps, could offer circumstantial evidence that could be used in court.

After several delays, Downton Abbey: A New Era has finally hit theatres. It’s the sequel to the 2019 movie in which the Crawleys were visited by the King and Queen of England. In A New Era, Downton Abbey is the site of a film shoot and much swooning, all while part of the family heads to a recently inherited villa in France.

Ferdinand Marcos Sr. is thought to have stolen somewhere between $5 billion and $10 billion of public money. Efforts to recover that money are ongoing and the commission trying to do it reports to the country's president.

Zarqa Nawaz, creator of the hit CBC-TV series Little Mosque on the Prairie, says she wants to disrupt tropes about older Muslim women and create more flawed and nuanced Muslim characters in her new show, ZARQA.

Bianca Wylie, a technology and public engagement expert and the co-founder of Digital Public, says the federal goverment's COVID Alert app never worked as promised and that it’s time for the government to acknowledge that, sunset the app and do a responsible post-mortem.

In anticipation of the U.S. Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, some states are seeking ways to enforce their own restrictive abortion laws in states that want to keep abortion legal and accessible. Mary Ziegler says this puts the country in uncharted legal territory.

Jeet Heer, national affairs correspondent for the Nation magazine, delivers the inaugural Return-O-Meter reading.

Pusha T released his fourth full length solo studio album last week and this week it debuted at number one on the Billboard Top 200 charts. It’s the first time for Pusha T, who is famous for collaborating with Pharrell and Kanye West, as well as for his very public beef with Drake.

Across the United States, books by Black and LGBTQ authors are being banned from libraries and classrooms. Now the Brooklyn Public Library, one of the largest in the country, is making its digital collection available to young readers anywhere in the U.S. Chief Librarian Nick Higgins tells us about the program.

Tracey Williams walks the beach in Cornwall several times a day, and finding the plastic building pieces has opened her eyes to the other things that wash ashore from the oceans. She’s written about her finds in her new book, Adrift: The Curious Tale of Lego Lost at Sea.

Sharry Aiken, an immigration and refugee law professor at Queen's University, says the program deserves to be celebrated but laments what she calls a stark difference between this program and the ways Canada responds to people fleeing violence in other parts of the world.