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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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Twin sisters from Gaza killed after being accepted into University of Waterloo PhD program in Ontario
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December 18, 2024

Twin sisters from Gaza killed after being accepted into University of Waterloo PhD program in Ontario

The University of Waterloo community is mourning after twin sisters…

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Caitlin Clark's No. 22 jersey to be retired by the University of Iowa
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December 18, 2024

Caitlin Clark’s No. 22 jersey to be retired by the University of Iowa

No Iowa Hawkeyes women’s basketball player will wear Caitlin Clark’s…

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'Canada's beloved' Theodore Too tugboat sinking in St. Catharines, Ont.
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December 18, 2024

‘Canada’s beloved’ Theodore Too tugboat sinking in St. Catharines, Ont.

The owner of Theodore Too, the life-sized replica of a…

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CDC confirms first severe case of H5N1 bird flu in U.S.
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December 18, 2024

CDC confirms first severe case of H5N1 bird flu in U.S.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says a…

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Rescue crews free injured explorer from underground cave — again
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December 18, 2024

Rescue crews free injured explorer from underground cave — again

Italian rescue crews pulled Ottavia Piana to safety Wednesday, 75…

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Order of Canada goes to advocates, athletes, scientists and Deadpool
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December 18, 2024

Order of Canada goes to advocates, athletes, scientists and Deadpool

More than 40 years after being told she was a…

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Family sues after man allegedly got medically assisted death during day pass from hospital
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December 18, 2024

Family sues after man allegedly got medically assisted death during day pass from hospital

The family of a B.C. man with bipolar disorder and…

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Fire at synagogue in Montreal's West Island under investigation
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December 18, 2024

Fire at synagogue in Montreal’s West Island under investigation

Montreal police’s arson unit is investigating a fire at a…

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Saint John boy goes home in T-shirt after school bolts locker closed
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December 18, 2024

Saint John boy goes home in T-shirt after school bolts locker closed

A Saint John mother is angry with her son’s school…

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