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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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Bank of Canada cuts key interest rate to 3.25% with slower pace of cuts going forward
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December 11, 2024

Bank of Canada cuts key interest rate to 3.25% with slower pace of cuts going forward

The Bank of Canada lowered its interest rate by 50-basis…

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From Whistler to Calgary, Canadian luge trio's Olympic journey nearing full circle
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December 11, 2024

From Whistler to Calgary, Canadian luge trio’s Olympic journey nearing full circle

Rewatch the 2010 Vancouver Paralympics closing ceremony closely, and you’ll…

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'My father was 95 ... what did he do?': Family mourns after airstrike hits house in Nuseirat
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December 11, 2024

‘My father was 95 … what did he do?’: Family mourns after airstrike hits house in Nuseirat

Israeli strikes in the northern and central Gaza Strip on…

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MPs call for crackdown on student protest encampments, ban on display of terror symbols
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December 11, 2024

MPs call for crackdown on student protest encampments, ban on display of terror symbols

In two reports on antisemitism and Islamophobia in Canada, Liberal…

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Air quality's impact on mental well-being getting attention in one of the world's most polluted cities
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December 11, 2024

Air quality’s impact on mental well-being getting attention in one of the world’s most polluted cities

In New Delhi, one of the most polluted cities in…

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Assembly of First Nations, Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami call for resolution to Canada Post strike
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December 11, 2024

Assembly of First Nations, Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami call for resolution to Canada Post strike

With the Canada Post strike in its fourth week, Inuit…

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Here’s your reminder to go out and watch one of the best meteor showers of the year
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December 11, 2024

Here’s your reminder to go out and watch one of the best meteor showers of the year

December isn’t just about the holidays — it’s also the…

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South Korean ex-minister attempts suicide, police attempt search of president's office in martial law probe
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December 11, 2024

South Korean ex-minister attempts suicide, police attempt search of president’s office in martial law probe

South Korea’s previous defence minister was stopped from attempting suicide…

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Canadian woman allegedly caught with gift-wrapped meth facing charges in New Zealand
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December 11, 2024

Canadian woman allegedly caught with gift-wrapped meth facing charges in New Zealand

A 29-year-old Canadian woman is facing charges in New Zealand after…

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