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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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Parents say 'trust your gut' after infant sent home from hospital later diagnosed with meningitis
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December 31, 2024

Parents say ‘trust your gut’ after infant sent home from hospital later diagnosed with meningitis

For Katelynn Hawes and Quentin Brunelle, it should have been…

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Get one of those $36.29 direct deposits from Facebook? Here's what you should know
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December 30, 2024

Get one of those $36.29 direct deposits from Facebook? Here’s what you should know

Did you recently get a direct deposit of $36.29 from…

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Holiday sports catch-up: World juniors, football and more
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December 30, 2024

Holiday sports catch-up: World juniors, football and more

CBC Sports’ daily newsletter gets you up to speed on…

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China hacked U.S. Treasury Department to access workstations and documents, agency says
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December 30, 2024

China hacked U.S. Treasury Department to access workstations and documents, agency says

Chinese hackers remotely accessed several U.S. Treasury Department workstations and…

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Ottawa to extend deadline for charitable donation tax deductions
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December 30, 2024

Ottawa to extend deadline for charitable donation tax deductions

The federal government plans to extend the deadline for claiming…

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Linda Lavin, Tony-winning actor who starred in landmark sitcom Alice, dead at 87
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December 30, 2024

Linda Lavin, Tony-winning actor who starred in landmark sitcom Alice, dead at 87

Linda Lavin, a Tony Award-winning stage actor who became a…

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India launches its 1st space docking mission
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December 30, 2024

India launches its 1st space docking mission

India’s space agency launched its first space docking mission on…

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Hundreds of Ukrainian and Russian POWs head home after swap
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December 30, 2024

Hundreds of Ukrainian and Russian POWs head home after swap

Ukraine and Russia carried out a new exchange of prisoners…

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Chess great Carlsen returns to tournament — and the jeans stay on
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December 30, 2024

Chess great Carlsen returns to tournament — and the jeans stay on

Chess champion Magnus Carlsen will return to the World Rapid…

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