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By CAM TAIT

Canada's pre-war training mission helped Ukraine abandon the old Soviet playbook for fighting wars — a fact that could help explain why the war has gone so badly for Moscow.

Canadian soldiers have trained tens of thousands of Ukrainian troops on Western military tactics. Two Canadians involved in that training and a Ukrainian on the front line tell CBC's David Common how it has helped Ukraine survive this long.

It took interviewing a future president of the United States for journalist John Hendrickson to come to terms with his stutter.

Clandestine meetings at a car wash, promises of protection from the military, millions of dollars stuffed into suitcases... The scenes witnesses are describing at the ongoing corruption trial of Genaro García Luna, Mexico's former top security official, sound like they could be lifted straight out of a Narcos plotline. But as investigative journalist Tim Golden tells David Common, the trial is pulling back the curtain on decades of corruption, extortion and political interference from both Mexican and American officials that fueled the rise of Mexico's most infamous drug cartels –...