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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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Trump is slashing public radio funding. Here's why it will hit rural communities hardest
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January 20, 2025

Trump is slashing public radio funding. Here’s why it will hit rural communities hardest

Every morning, Gwen Johnson, a resident of the small Appalachian community…

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The 'New Deal' of grift: Trump sets standard for presidential self-enrichment
Star

January 20, 2025

The ‘New Deal’ of grift: Trump sets standard for presidential self-enrichment

There’s a reason Franklin D. Roosevelt’s portrait still hangs in…

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Scientists at U.S. weather forecasting agency ordered to get clearance before talking to Canadian counterparts
Star

January 20, 2025

Scientists at U.S. weather forecasting agency ordered to get clearance before talking to Canadian counterparts

Travelling for international meetings or even joining a call with…

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How a meeting with Donald Trump Jr. led Canada's premiers to an $85,000-a-month lobbying firm
Star

January 20, 2025

How a meeting with Donald Trump Jr. led Canada’s premiers to an $85,000-a-month lobbying firm

How did Canada’s premiers end up hiring a Washington lobbying…

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'Shock and awe': Trump moves faster than last time to impose agenda
Star

January 20, 2025

‘Shock and awe’: Trump moves faster than last time to impose agenda

If you’re surprised by some of Donald Trump’s first moves…

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Trump administration fires Justice Dept. lawyers who brought criminal cases against him
Star

January 20, 2025

Trump administration fires Justice Dept. lawyers who brought criminal cases against him

U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration on Monday fired more than…

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Trump's threats reveal the trouble with Canada's pipelines running through the U.S.
Star

January 20, 2025

Trump’s threats reveal the trouble with Canada’s pipelines running through the U.S.

“Continental energy security” was the watchword of both governments and…

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Trump for first time talks to international venue about making Canada a state
Star

January 20, 2025

Trump for first time talks to international venue about making Canada a state

Donald Trump for the first time used an international venue…

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Trump cancels travel for refugees to U.S., leaving thousands who were already approved stranded
Star

January 20, 2025

Trump cancels travel for refugees to U.S., leaving thousands who were already approved stranded

Refugees who had been approved to travel to the United…

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