Day 6with Brent Bambury

A Chinese scientist claims the world's first two gene edited babies have been born. That sparked calls for tighter regulations on the technology, but Canada's laws are already among the most restrictive in the world — too restrictive for many Canadian scientists.

Rapper Raj Haldar, a.k.a Lushlife, co-wrote a book about silent first letter words and bizarre spellings. Now P is for Pterodactyl: The Worst Alphabet Book Ever is a New York Times bestseller.

The Ecuadorian government said this week it's now safe for Assange to leave the embassy as Britain has guaranteed he will not be extradited anywhere he'd get the death penalty. Assange hasn't shown any interest in leaving.

Day 6 books columnist Becky Toyne delivers her annual holiday book list, with suggestions for book lovers of all kinds.

FARC guerrillas signed peace deal with the Colombian government in 2017 to end a five decade long war in the country. Now they're telling their side of the story to adventurous travellers.

Riffed from the Headlines is our weekly quiz where we choose three riffs linked by one story in the news. Guess the story that links the riffs and you could win a Day 6 tote bag.

What happens when GM leaves town, how restaurants got so loud, the creator of Netflix's hit series 'Dogs,' what Gritty and mummers have in common, China exports surveillance, Pardeep Nagra's fight for religious freedom in the boxing ring and more.

With five more plants being shut down, Spacing magazine's Shawn Micallef remembers what happened when GM left his hometown of Windsor, Ont.

Architecture critic Kate Wagner explains how modern restaurant design has transformed the dining experience into a shouting match — and why that matters.

Before Glen Zipper created Dogs, he spent years as a prosecutor working on animal rescue issues and volunteering at animal shelters.

While many Canadians associate mummering with Canada's East Coast, the tradition also has roots in Philadelphia — and a connection to Gritty.

Human Right Watch China director Sophie Richardson says China's business of selling surveillance technology to places like Venezuela, Iran and Ethiopia is bad for everyone's liberties.

The new film 'Tiger' chronicles the story of Canadian boxer Pardeep Nagra. In the late 1990s, he won the right to get in the ring with a full beard.

Riffed from the Headlines is our weekly quiz where we choose three riffs linked by one story in the news. Guess the story that links the riffs and you could win a Day 6 tote bag.

Amazon's Alexa as a potential murder witness, the legacy of Canada's K-Tel, what Brexit may mean for Gibraltar, mysterious injuries for diplomats in Cuba, government intimidation of Philippine journalist Maria Ressa, why it's OK to be disagreeable and more.

A judge presiding over a double murder case in New Hampshire has ordered Amazon to hand over recordings from an Echo speaker that may have captured audio of the events at the crime scene.

In the '70s and '80s, Winnipeg record label K-Tel was the master of compilation albums and infomercials. We speak with Samantha Kives, daughter of K-Tel's founder Philip Kives, about the company's enduring legacy.

Gibraltar is happily part of Britain and the EU-Brexit deal spoils that party, threatening to reopen a 300-year-old fight between the U.K. and Spain.

As Canadian diplomats criticize the government's response to a series of so-called 'sonic wave' attacks in Havana in 2017, former U.S. diplomat Jay Taylor recalls another mysterious, unsolved attack against his own family in Havana three decades ago.

Maria Ressa, the CEO of the independent Philippine news site Rappler, says the organization has been indicted for tax evasion as a means of intimidation, but she refuses to back down.

If the mere mention of Black Friday, let alone Christmas or Hannukah, makes you cringe, culture writer John Semley says it's actually good to hate things — especially if everybody else seems to like them.

Riffed from the Headlines is our weekly quiz where we choose three riffs linked by one story in the news. Guess the story that links the riffs and you could win a Day 6 tote bag.