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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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Justice, Ontario/Quebec

February 3, 2025

Worker dead after falling from ladder placed against billboard in Toronto

Toronto police say a worker has died after he fell…

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Business, Pharma

February 3, 2025

Drug company Apotex acquires CanPrev, a provider of vitamins and supplements

TORONTO — Drug company Apotex Inc. says it has acquired…

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Ontario party leaders speak with media as U.S. trade war takes centre stage in snap election
Star

February 3, 2025

Ontario party leaders speak with media as U.S. trade war takes centre stage in snap election

Check back on this story to get the latest on…

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Trump tariffs hit markets on Monday in early reaction to Canada-U.S. trade war
Star

February 3, 2025

Trump tariffs hit markets on Monday in early reaction to Canada-U.S. trade war

U.S. stocks sank and the Canadian dollar fell further in…

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Food, Health, Lifestyle, Social

February 3, 2025

Alcohol-related deaths rose 18 per cent during pandemic: report

TORONTO — Alcohol-related deaths rose about 18 per cent during…

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Beverage, Business, Media

February 3, 2025

Tim Hortons brings back the cups for Roll Up to Win contest

TORONTO — Tim Hortons is returning its famed Roll up…

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Ford 'ripping up' Ontario's $100M contract with Elon Musk's Starlink in wake of U.S. tariffs
Star

February 3, 2025

Ford ‘ripping up’ Ontario’s $100M contract with Elon Musk’s Starlink in wake of U.S. tariffs

Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford is ripping up Ontario’s nearly…

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Foreign aid agency USAID in crisis as Trump, Musk threaten shutdown
Star

February 3, 2025

Foreign aid agency USAID in crisis as Trump, Musk threaten shutdown

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is facing its…

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The $250-an-hour Band-Aid: How this small hospital keeps its emergency room open
Star

February 3, 2025

The $250-an-hour Band-Aid: How this small hospital keeps its emergency room open

The family doctor shortage in northeastern Ontario has caused some…

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