New Brunswick bluesman Terry Whalen gathered some good friends such as Matt Andersen and Steve Marriner and made an new album with all of the proceeds supporting the SPCA.

People who are pregnant are 4 times more likely to be hospitalized if they contract Covid-19, and if they are hospitalized, 40 percent are admitted to the ICU. That's why the New Brunswick Medical Society and Perinatal NB are urging pregnant women to get the vaccine. We speak with Dr. Lynn Murphy-Kaulbeck of Perinatal NB.

Colleen Kitts-Goguen brings us another edition of Chapter & Verse, highlighting New Brunswick writers. Today, she focuses on a new book of poetry that delves into one woman's experience with mental illness.

The fourth wave of Covid-19 has been hitting some New Brunswick long term care facilities hard. A number of cases have been found in recent days at the Villa Renaissance in Dalhousie. We get more details from interim director of the New Brunswick Association of Nursing Homes, Michael Keating.

Last week's memo on land acknowledgements from the province's attorney general continues to generate reaction. We speak with Fredericton lawyer and former Attorney general T.J. Burke for his thoughts.

We're off to the provincial archives to learn about this history of Belmont House in Lincoln. Built by Loyalists, the home housed Dutch immigrants after World War 2, and many tenants after, including journalist Jackie Webster who believed it was haunted.

The province is making rapid test kits available for free this week. So how do they work? And how do they fit in at this stage in the pandemic? Dr. Lisa Barrett of Nova Scotia Health joins us to talk about that.

New Brunswick provincial employees are no longer allowed to make territorial or title acknowledgements in reference to First Nations lands, due to ongoing land title claims going through the courts. We speak with Tobique Chief Ross Perley for his reaction.

Rapid tests will soon be widely available for New Brunswickers. What role could and should pharmacies have in the roll out? Also, it's flu season! We get the latest from Jake Reid with the New Brunswick Pharmacists Association.

We reconvene our Friday Political panel. It's a long list of topics this week -- land acknowledgements, a budget surplus, some rough new approval figures and the ever present COVID response.