From the Frontlines - Uganda and Ukraine

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From the Frontlines - Uganda and Ukraine

FromThe Bridge with Peter Mansbridge

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Two of our favourite people join The Bridge today. War Child Canada's Dr. Samantha Nutt is not far from where the weekend's horrendous attack on Ugandan school children took place and she talks to us from there, and Brian Stewart is by with his regular Tuesday commentary and analysis on the war in Ukraine.

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