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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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Wildfires rage through L.A., forcing thousands to flee as homes, businesses burn
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January 8, 2025

Wildfires rage through L.A., forcing thousands to flee as homes, businesses burn

California firefighters battled wind-whipped wildfires that tore across the Los…

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Poilievre says Liberal leadership aspirants are 'just like Justin'
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January 8, 2025

Poilievre says Liberal leadership aspirants are ‘just like Justin’

From coining “Justinflation” to saying Justin Trudeau is “not worth…

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What will Canada's second Trudeau era leave behind?
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January 8, 2025

What will Canada’s second Trudeau era leave behind?

It is impossible in the present to know what history…

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RCMP asks Canadians to help FBI investigate New Orleans attack
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January 7, 2025

RCMP asks Canadians to help FBI investigate New Orleans attack

The Mounties are asking Canadians to come forward with any…

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Capital gains tax changes are in limbo. But the CRA is collecting new charges anyway
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January 7, 2025

Capital gains tax changes are in limbo. But the CRA is collecting new charges anyway

When Parliament was prorogued, all bills and motions that had…

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The wave of gang violence in Haiti killed thousands last year, UN says
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January 7, 2025

The wave of gang violence in Haiti killed thousands last year, UN says

More than 5,600 people were reported killed in Haiti last…

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Booing and blunts: WWE Raw on Netflix signals a cultural vibe shift
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January 7, 2025

Booing and blunts: WWE Raw on Netflix signals a cultural vibe shift

For the first time in more than 30 years, WWE’s…

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B.C. 'childbirth activist' charged with manslaughter in newborn's death
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January 7, 2025

B.C. ‘childbirth activist’ charged with manslaughter in newborn’s death

The charge against 77-year-old Gloria Lemay comes almost one year…

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Canada tells AFN it won't negotiate nationally on First Nations child welfare reform
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January 7, 2025

Canada tells AFN it won’t negotiate nationally on First Nations child welfare reform

Canada has told the Assembly of First Nations that Ottawa…

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