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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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Even Quebec City no longer relying on cold to keep outdoor rinks open
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January 17, 2025

Even Quebec City no longer relying on cold to keep outdoor rinks open

Quebec City is hoping to see the introduction of more…

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U.K. restaurant selling $177 pineapple pizza says that's the price for 'terrible judgment'
Star

January 16, 2025

U.K. restaurant selling $177 pineapple pizza says that’s the price for ‘terrible judgment’

People who prefer their pizza peppered with pineapples will have…

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Lack of interpreter leads Alberta judge to throw deaf man's sex charges out of court
Star

January 16, 2025

Lack of interpreter leads Alberta judge to throw deaf man’s sex charges out of court

An Alberta judge has stayed sex charges against a deaf…

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114 'unmarked burial features' detected on former McIntosh residential school property in northwestern Ontario
Star

January 16, 2025

114 ‘unmarked burial features’ detected on former McIntosh residential school property in northwestern Ontario

An investigation has detected 114 “unmarked burial features” on the…

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It Ends with Us fight heats up as Justin Baldoni sues co-star Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds
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January 16, 2025

It Ends with Us fight heats up as Justin Baldoni sues co-star Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds

It Ends With Us actor and director Justin Baldoni sued…

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Regional gain in new housing construction in 2024 amid declines in major cities
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January 16, 2025

Regional gain in new housing construction in 2024 amid declines in major cities

Canada’s housing market saw a two per cent increase in…

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Filmmaker David Lynch, director of Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks, dead at 78, family says
Star

January 16, 2025

Filmmaker David Lynch, director of Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks, dead at 78, family says

David Lynch, the American filmmaker, writer and artist who scored…

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Have Sex and the City fans stooped too low? Iconic NYC brownstone, and stoop, to be gated off
Star

January 16, 2025

Have Sex and the City fans stooped too low? Iconic NYC brownstone, and stoop, to be gated off

Carrie Bradshaw’s apartment was almost its own character in the…

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Bob Uecker, 'Mr. Baseball' and Brewers announcer, dead at 90
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January 16, 2025

Bob Uecker, ‘Mr. Baseball’ and Brewers announcer, dead at 90

Bob Uecker, the voice of his hometown Milwaukee Brewers who…

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