A recent case brought forward by the U.S. Department of Justice claims the ‘concert industry is broken’ and that Live Nation and Ticketmaster are to blame. Policy expert Vass Bednar and musician Rollie Pemberton join Elamin Abdelmahmoud to discuss the case, proposed settlement and what this means for the price of your concert tickets.

The President’s Cake, a debut film from Hasan Hadi, takes place in the 1990s in Iraq during Saddam Hussein’s regime. It follows a nine-year-old girl tasked with baking a cake for the dictator's birthday. Film critic Dalia Al-Dujaili talks to Elamin Abdelmahmoud about what makes this film important and its impact on the Iraqi film industry.

Last fall, Alberta’s education minister ordered schools across the province to remove books containing explicit depictions of a sexual act from their libraries and classrooms. Over 150 titles have been removed from shelves, including the graphic novel version of Margaret Atwood’s 'The Handmaid’s Tale' and George Orwell’s '1984.' Ira Wells, author of the book 'On Book Banning' and the president of PEN Canada, talks with host Elamin Abdelmahmoud about why we’re seeing more book bans in schools in Canada and the U.S. right now.

Plus, Timothée Chalamet is taking heat for comments he made about the relevance of opera and ballet. Hunter Harris and Ariella Garmaise talks about what it could mean for his shot at the Oscar and why the world suddenly seems to be turning on Hollywood’s golden boy.

At the end of last year, several prominent artists lost millions of streams from the Spotify bot crackdown including Doechii, Davido and BTS' Jimin. The move has sparked conversations online around the impact of artificial intelligence and inflated statistics. Music industry insiders Michelle Santosuosso and Kevin Amougou talk to Elamin Abdelmahmoud about what all of this means for the future of music.

Angine de poitrine is a music duo from Saguenay, Quebec that's gone viral for performing in big masks, polka-dotted costumes and speaking in gibberish. Culture writer Dominic Tardiff explains why their music is such a surprising hit.