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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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The squeaky cheese dream: How this New Brunswicker senior checked off one more dream on his list
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January 12, 2025

The squeaky cheese dream: How this New Brunswicker senior checked off one more dream on his list

Normand MacDonald applied to We Are Young, the organization that…

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Uncertainty and anxiety for some Northerners, as Trump returns to power
Star

January 12, 2025

Uncertainty and anxiety for some Northerners, as Trump returns to power

Pauline Frost, chief of the Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation in northern…

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Despite gains, women still do most of the housework. Will this gender gap ever narrow?
Star

January 12, 2025

Despite gains, women still do most of the housework. Will this gender gap ever narrow?

Like the laundry that never goes away, research on the…

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After an 'unexpectedly difficult' year, what's ahead for the Royal Family in 2025?
Star

January 12, 2025

After an ‘unexpectedly difficult’ year, what’s ahead for the Royal Family in 2025?

The illnesses of King Charles and Catherine, Princess of Wales,…

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I don't want to be a Karen. But as a brown woman, is there something to be learned from her?
Star

January 12, 2025

I don’t want to be a Karen. But as a brown woman, is there something to be learned from her?

Wanting to be a Karen is a loaded concept. As…

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U.S. special counsel investigating Trump resigns after submitting report
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January 11, 2025

U.S. special counsel investigating Trump resigns after submitting report

U.S. special counsel Jack Smith has resigned from the Justice…

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Ontario teen sells copies of his 1st cookbook so family can buy new van to fit his wheelchair
Star

January 11, 2025

Ontario teen sells copies of his 1st cookbook so family can buy new van to fit his wheelchair

John Ray of Kenilworth, Ont., has congenital muscular dystrophy and…

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New limit on high-interest loans targets 'predatory lending practices'
Star

January 11, 2025

New limit on high-interest loans targets ‘predatory lending practices’

There’s a new limit on the rates Canadians are charged…

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will step down soon. How much has he changed Canada
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January 11, 2025

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will step down soon. How much has he changed Canada

As Trudeau prepares to step down, CBC’s The House spoke…

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