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Politics

2020: A World Divided

The Agenda with Steve Paikin

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The Agenda welcomes Matthew Fisher, Canada's longest-serving foreign correspondent, and Ann Fitz-Gerald, director of the Balsillie School of International Affairs and an internationally recognized security advisor, to discuss geopolitical events of 2019, and what they signal for the new year.

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