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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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Inside this Montreal Christmas party uniting neighbours, Dr. Seuss style
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December 16, 2024

Inside this Montreal Christmas party uniting neighbours, Dr. Seuss style

Drinks, cookies and a communal Christmas tree: a residential street…

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Germany's Olaf Scholz loses confidence vote, as he requested, setting up snap election
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December 16, 2024

Germany’s Olaf Scholz loses confidence vote, as he requested, setting up snap election

The German parliament accepted Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s invitation to withdraw…

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Musical icon Zakir Hussain has died at 73. This is the advice he said changed his career
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December 16, 2024

Musical icon Zakir Hussain has died at 73. This is the advice he said changed his career

Zakir Hussain was one of India’s most accomplished classical musicians….

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Former Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad says departure to Russia wasn't planned
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December 16, 2024

Former Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad says departure to Russia wasn’t planned

Ousted Syrian President Bashar Assad says he had no plans…

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Conservatives decisively win B.C. federal byelection, dealing another blow to Trudeau
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December 16, 2024

Conservatives decisively win B.C. federal byelection, dealing another blow to Trudeau

The Conservatives comfortably won a federal byelection in the Cloverdale—Langley…

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2 Sask. men say they are out thousands of dollars after hockey card order never arrived
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December 16, 2024

2 Sask. men say they are out thousands of dollars after hockey card order never arrived

Two Saskatchewan men are hoping to recoup thousands of dollars…

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How much will turkey dinner cost this holiday season? We crunched the numbers
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December 16, 2024

How much will turkey dinner cost this holiday season? We crunched the numbers

Canadians could see some relief as they fill their carts…

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Donald Trump's tariff threats could spark an early Ontario election
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December 16, 2024

Donald Trump’s tariff threats could spark an early Ontario election

A looming tariff battle between the United States and Canada…

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It was never a real trailer park. Now, these tenants have 3 weeks to leave
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December 16, 2024

It was never a real trailer park. Now, these tenants have 3 weeks to leave

Bylaw enforcement officers with Ontario’s Bayham municipality have told a…

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