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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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Health, Ontario/Quebec

March 19, 2026

Allison Jones

Ontario looks to create connected primary care medical record system

TORONTO — Ontario is planning to create a provincewide electronic…

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Brandon Tobin killed his grandmother after a drug-induced seizure. A judge will soon decide his fate
Star

March 19, 2026

Brandon Tobin killed his grandmother after a drug-induced seizure. A judge will soon decide his fate

Crown prosecutors are asking for a six-year prison sentence while…

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Ontario/Quebec, Social

March 19, 2026

Jordan Omstead

First Nation seeks transparency as questions loom over Sarnia, Ont., pipeline leak

The size of a Sarnia, Ont., oil pipeline leak remained…

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Entertainment, Entertainment, Arts, Film

March 19, 2026

Alex Nino Gheciu

How Canadian box-office hit ‘Undertone’ got to the screen without public funding

TORONTO — Personal grief, a potentially haunted house and a…

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Business, Justice, Retail

March 19, 2026

Tara Deschamps

Ontario court extends Hudson’s Bay’s reprieve from creditors

TORONTO — An Ontario court has extended the reprieve Hudson’s…

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Coquitlam mudslide knocks out power as heaviest rainfall expected on parts of B.C.'s South Coast
Star

March 19, 2026

Coquitlam mudslide knocks out power as heaviest rainfall expected on parts of B.C.’s South Coast

Environment Canada says the heaviest rainfall from the “prolonged atmospheric…

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Justice, Ontario/Quebec

March 19, 2026

Ontario police watchdog investigating after Windsor officers fatally shoot man

Ontario’s police watchdog says a man in Windsor is dead…

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National

March 19, 2026

In the news: Ottawa urged to help Inuit, Ontario funding cuts, B.C. long-term care

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press…

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Business, Environment, National, Weather

March 19, 2026

Chuck Chiang

Vancouver closing out first no-snow winter in 43 years. There may be more on the way

VANCOUVER — Vancouver is poised to close out its first…

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