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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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Iranian Kurdish fighters find themselves in the middle of U.S.-Iran war as they wait in Iraq
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March 21, 2026

Iranian Kurdish fighters find themselves in the middle of U.S.-Iran war as they wait in Iraq

Despite the attacks on Iranian Kurdish camps in Iraq, there…

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Canada was prepared to ration gas in the 1979 oil crisis. Could we be running on fumes once again?
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March 21, 2026

Canada was prepared to ration gas in the 1979 oil crisis. Could we be running on fumes once again?

Canada considered conserving oil with gasoline rationing stamps in 1979….

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Sports

March 21, 2026

Joshua Clipperton

‘A learning experience’: Woll looking to finish strong with Maple Leafs

TORONTO — Joseph Woll didn’t expect to be in this…

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How fans and industry insiders feel about Ontario’s ticket resale crackdown
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March 21, 2026

How fans and industry insiders feel about Ontario’s ticket resale crackdown

Sports and music fans are applauding the province’s plans to…

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3 credits short of a degree, he left NSCAD for a music career. The school is now honouring him
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March 21, 2026

3 credits short of a degree, he left NSCAD for a music career. The school is now honouring him

When Andrew Scott decided to chase a career in music…

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NDP leadership hopefuls make final push ahead of convention vote
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March 21, 2026

NDP leadership hopefuls make final push ahead of convention vote

With one week until New Democrats choose a new federal…

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I fear the violence of war but I also fear a future where nothing changes in Iran
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March 21, 2026

I fear the violence of war but I also fear a future where nothing changes in Iran

Like many Iranian Canadians, Mehdi M. Kashani is watching the…

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The magic of going to the theatres isn’t about the movie. It’s about watching it with strangers
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March 21, 2026

The magic of going to the theatres isn’t about the movie. It’s about watching it with strangers

Movie theatre attendance hasn’t recovered from the COVID-19 pandemic’s disruption…

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Trump says the war on Iran is 'militarily' won. Yet there's still no end — or endgame — in sight
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March 21, 2026

Trump says the war on Iran is ‘militarily’ won. Yet there’s still no end — or endgame — in sight

Three weeks in, the joint U.S.-Israel combat operation has killed…

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