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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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How long do leftovers really last? And other holiday food safety questions, answered
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December 26, 2024

How long do leftovers really last? And other holiday food safety questions, answered

Since kitchens can turn into sites of debates over leftovers,…

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Prayers, tears mark 20th anniversary of Indian Ocean tsunami that killed some 230,000
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December 26, 2024

Prayers, tears mark 20th anniversary of Indian Ocean tsunami that killed some 230,000

People started gathering in prayer on Thursday, visiting the mass…

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Southeastern Manitoba man drowned Christmas Eve while clearing snow from pond
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December 26, 2024

Southeastern Manitoba man drowned Christmas Eve while clearing snow from pond

A 58-year-old Manitoba man drowned on Christmas Eve after his…

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Windstorm slams southwest B.C. on Christmas Day as ferries cancelled
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December 25, 2024

Windstorm slams southwest B.C. on Christmas Day as ferries cancelled

Ferries have been cancelled between Metro Vancouver and Vancouver Island…

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How agrivoltaics is marrying food production with green energy in Alberta
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December 25, 2024

How agrivoltaics is marrying food production with green energy in Alberta

Calgary-based Sun Cycle Farms conducted a pilot project that grazed…

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King Charles praises health-care workers in 1st Christmas address since cancer diagnosis
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December 25, 2024

King Charles praises health-care workers in 1st Christmas address since cancer diagnosis

King Charles used his annual Christmas message to hail the…

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Canada's women's pro sports landscape transformed in 2024 with arrival of PWHL, NSL, WNBA
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December 25, 2024

Canada’s women’s pro sports landscape transformed in 2024 with arrival of PWHL, NSL, WNBA

The Professional Women’s Hockey League played a first season and…

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Pope urges the world to put down arms, 'overcome divisions' in Christmas message
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December 25, 2024

Pope urges the world to put down arms, ‘overcome divisions’ in Christmas message

Pope Francis in his traditional Christmas message on Wednesday urged…

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More than 30 killed after Russia-bound Azerbaijan Airlines plane crashes in Kazakhstan
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December 25, 2024

More than 30 killed after Russia-bound Azerbaijan Airlines plane crashes in Kazakhstan

Azerbaijan Airlines flight J2-8243 had flown hundreds of miles off…

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