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NHL rookie to watch: The making of Matthew Schaefer

NHL rookie to watch: The making of Matthew Schaefer

After being selected first overall in the 2025 NHL draft, Canada’s Matthew Schaefer is having an extraordinary rookie season, but getting here wasn’t always easy. In an interview, he tells CBC News chief correspondent Adrienne Arsenault about the personal losses that shaped his journey.

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Somalis say foreign ships are stealing their fish, and it's fuelling a piracy resurgence

Somalis say foreign ships are stealing their fish, and it’s fuelling a piracy resurgence

Piracy off the coast of Somalia is back in the headlines after European Union naval forces seized an Iranian fishing vessel last month that Somali pirates used to briefly hijack a Malta-flagged tanker carrying gasoline from India to South Africa. Fishermen insist the bigger problem in the region is that foreign vessels are fishing in waters intended for locals, harming their livelihoods.

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Fear, death and hope in a city under the shadows of a Mexican cartel war

Fear, death and hope in a city under the shadows of a Mexican cartel war

Fear and violence permeate Culiacán, Sinaloa, and its surrounding area in northwestern Mexico. The sun-seared state capital, with a population of a little more than one million, is also known as the cradle of the Sinaloa cartel, one of the most powerful organized crime groups in the world, which has fallen into a vicious civil war.

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Are Iranian 'sleeper cells' a threat to Canadians? Here’s what intelligence experts say
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March 24, 2026

Are Iranian ‘sleeper cells’ a threat to Canadians? Here’s what intelligence experts say

The U.S.-Israel war with Iran has stoked fears that Tehran…

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The RCMP, the spy and the betrayal of national chief George Manuel
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March 24, 2026

The RCMP, the spy and the betrayal of national chief George Manuel

The secret agent was code numbered A-828.Intelligence reports say the…

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Why Mounties paid 5 informers to spy on Dene leaders: Inside a secret surveillance operation
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March 24, 2026

Why Mounties paid 5 informers to spy on Dene leaders: Inside a secret surveillance operation

There was something suspicious about the young, hippie-looking man who…

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Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs targeted by RCMP spies in 1970s 'Native extremism' program
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March 24, 2026

Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs targeted by RCMP spies in 1970s ‘Native extremism’ program

Newly released RCMP Security Service files reveal that it amassed…

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How RCMP spies infiltrated the 1970s Indigenous rights movement
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March 24, 2026

How RCMP spies infiltrated the 1970s Indigenous rights movement

The Mounties called it the “Native extremism program.” Today, it…

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Syrians fleeing Israeli strikes in Lebanon return home to a country still rebuilding
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March 24, 2026

Syrians fleeing Israeli strikes in Lebanon return home to a country still rebuilding

More than 125,000 people have crossed from Lebanon into Syria…

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Ontario mandated e-learning to expand course options. Some worry it's being used to boost marks
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March 24, 2026

Ontario mandated e-learning to expand course options. Some worry it’s being used to boost marks

Six years after the Ontario government made e-learning a mandatory…

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Business, Construction, Politics, Prairies/BC, Real Estate, Social

March 23, 2026

Dayne Patterson

Calgary looks to repeal blanket rezoning as it considers how best to improve housing

CALGARY — Calgary city councillors worked through a gauntlet of…

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Business, Economy, Justice, Ontario/Quebec, Politics, Social, Transport

March 23, 2026

Liam Casey and Allison Jones

Ontario to declare Toronto island airport a special economic zone

TORONTO — Ontario will declare Toronto’s island airport the province’s…

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