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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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Catherine, Princess of Wales, says her cancer is in remission
Star

January 14, 2025

Catherine, Princess of Wales, says her cancer is in remission

Catherine, Princess of Wales, said she was relieved to be…

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A New Brunswick man's dog ingested weed. Turns out it's a common problem for vets
Star

January 14, 2025

A New Brunswick man’s dog ingested weed. Turns out it’s a common problem for vets

A Marysville man was in for a scary few hours…

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Home insurance rates likely to spike in 2025 following severe weather events, insurers warn
Star

January 14, 2025

Home insurance rates likely to spike in 2025 following severe weather events, insurers warn

With 2024 being the single-most expensive year on record in…

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Spain could impose a 100% tax on foreign home-buyers as tourism drives up housing costs
Star

January 14, 2025

Spain could impose a 100% tax on foreign home-buyers as tourism drives up housing costs

Spain is planning a raft of measures to address its…

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Here are the main points of the draft Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal
Star

January 14, 2025

Here are the main points of the draft Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal

Negotiators were meeting in Qatar on Tuesday hoping to finalize…

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Conservatives call on government to back off capital gains changes due to legislative limbo
Star

January 14, 2025

Conservatives call on government to back off capital gains changes due to legislative limbo

The Conservatives are calling on the government to stop collecting…

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Trump's pick for defence secretary, Pete Hegseth, blames media 'smear campaign' for allegations
Star

January 14, 2025

Trump’s pick for defence secretary, Pete Hegseth, blames media ‘smear campaign’ for allegations

Republican president-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Pentagon, former…

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Trump engaged in 'unprecedented criminal effort,' special counsel says in final report on 2020 election case
Star

January 14, 2025

Trump engaged in ‘unprecedented criminal effort,’ special counsel says in final report on 2020 election case

Donald Trump engaged in an “unprecedented criminal effort” to “unlawfully…

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Resort staff pressured ill guests to sign NDAs during Cancun vacation, say Sask. families
Star

January 14, 2025

Resort staff pressured ill guests to sign NDAs during Cancun vacation, say Sask. families

Two Saskatchewan families want their nightmare stay at a resort…

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