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Four hostages were rescued from Hamas over the weekend by Israeli special forces, but does that change the situation in Gaza at all?  In fact, does it force an even longer war? Dr Janice Stein has her regular Monday analysis on this and on the Ukraine-Russia war where things may be about to change.

There are big issues for Bruce and Chantal to handle this week: whether certain unnamed Parliamentarians have been dealing with foreign actors and what should be done about it; an interest rate cut and whether it is a signal of a changing economic outlook; and, as Pierre Poilievre takes one of his MPs to the woodshed, he's getting great reviews for doing so.

This week's question makes you think and listeners certainly did with a variety of answers, all of which are worth considering.

An encore of With the 80th anniversary of perhaps the greatest military gamble in history upon us this week, we look at D-Day. Today we invite the well-known and much respected British historian James Holland onto The Bridge to guide us through the highlights of a day that changed the Second World War.

Journalists, Nahlah Ayed, brings to light a little-known Canadian story that centres around preparations for D-Day. It really is at its heart a love story, but it's also a spy story with all the twists and turns that both elements can deliver.

With the 80th anniversary of perhaps the greatest military gamble in history upon us this week, we look at D-Day. Today we invite the well-known and much respected British historian James Holland onto The Bridge to guide us through the highlights of a day that changed the Second World War.