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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 B.C. lawyers helped an Indigenous community in Peru get a river declared a person with legal rights
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December 23, 2024

How B.C. lawyers helped an Indigenous community in Peru get a river declared a person with legal rights

Earlier this year, a Peruvian court granted a river legal…

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Honda and Nissan announce plans to merge, creating world's third-largest automaker
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December 23, 2024

Honda and Nissan announce plans to merge, creating world’s third-largest automaker

Japanese automakers Honda and Nissan have announced plans to work…

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How officials tried to contain fallout after a Halifax school bus went missing for 4½ hours
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December 23, 2024

How officials tried to contain fallout after a Halifax school bus went missing for 4½ hours

Documents obtained by CBC News show that a French school…

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This boy hurt in collision didn't have an Indian status card, so Ottawa wouldn't pay for medical evacuation
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December 23, 2024

This boy hurt in collision didn’t have an Indian status card, so Ottawa wouldn’t pay for medical evacuation

The family of a Deer Lake First Nation boy who…

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Drug precursors the new 'primary threat' entering Canada as fentanyl imports drop
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December 23, 2024

Drug precursors the new ‘primary threat’ entering Canada as fentanyl imports drop

With criminal networks shifting to domestic production of fentanyl and…

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Paramedics in peril: New study to give Canada-wide picture of violence on the job
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December 23, 2024

Paramedics in peril: New study to give Canada-wide picture of violence on the job

Paramedics in Canada are consistently experiencing instances of physical abuse,…

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How a viral TikTok video led to a year-long global shortage of Swedish candy
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December 23, 2024

How a viral TikTok video led to a year-long global shortage of Swedish candy

How a TikTok influencer’s video showing off a bag of…

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This Alberta town has mountains on one side, Calgary on the other — and some big growing pains
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December 23, 2024

This Alberta town has mountains on one side, Calgary on the other — and some big growing pains

Tucked away in a picturesque river valley at the foot…

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Panama president hits back at Trump over canal U.S. takeover comments
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December 22, 2024

Panama president hits back at Trump over canal U.S. takeover comments

U.S. president-elect Donald Trump threatened on Sunday to reassert U.S….

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