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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, Justice, Ontario/Quebec, Social

March 19, 2026

Rianna Lim

Toronto’s donor-funded consumption sites bracing for fallout of Ontario funding cuts

TORONTO — As the Ontario government cuts funding for seven…

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Fortnite is hiking cost of its currency to 'pay the bills.' Are its battles against Google and Apple to blame?
Star

March 19, 2026

Fortnite is hiking cost of its currency to ‘pay the bills.’ Are its battles against Google and Apple to blame?

The popular online gaming platform Fortnite is hiking the price…

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Are we in for a super El Niño this year? Early projections say maybe, and this worries climate scientists
Star

March 19, 2026

Are we in for a super El Niño this year? Early projections say maybe, and this worries climate scientists

After a year and a half of La Niña conditions,…

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Ontario/Quebec

March 19, 2026

Boy fatally struck by GO train in Mississauga, Ont.: police

MISSISSAUGA — Police in Peel Region say a young boy…

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National, Ontario/Quebec

March 18, 2026

Sonja Puzic

Jennifer Pan pleads guilty to manslaughter in mother’s death after new trial ordered

Jennifer Pan has pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the 2010…

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Justice, Ontario/Quebec

March 18, 2026

Maan Alhmidi

Hundreds of Ontario cases tossed, compromised after police officers violated Charter rights: report

Charges were tossed or evidence was excluded from Ontario court…

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Justice, Ontario/Quebec

March 18, 2026

Toronto cop charged with accessing private police databases without authorization

TORONTO — Toronto police say they have arrested and charged…

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Accused extortionists deported as part of CBSA crackdown on cross-Canada network
Star

March 18, 2026

Accused extortionists deported as part of CBSA crackdown on cross-Canada network

Following extensive CBC News reporting on two Indian nationals deported…

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Business, Economy, National, Politics, Trade

March 18, 2026

Kelly Geraldine Malone

Greer says U.S. trade talks with Canada lagging behind those with Mexico

WASHINGTON — Trade talks with Canada ahead of the mandatory…

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