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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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This Sask. lab wants to give people weed gummies and get them behind the wheel — in a simulator
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December 10, 2024

This Sask. lab wants to give people weed gummies and get them behind the wheel — in a simulator

A research lab in Saskatoon wants to feed people weed…

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Should some rural ERs close permanently if better supports are in place?
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December 10, 2024

Should some rural ERs close permanently if better supports are in place?

Physicians who spoke to CBC wonder whether better supports —…

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Ontario man says 911 put him on hold 3 times as armed group broke into his home
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December 10, 2024

Ontario man says 911 put him on hold 3 times as armed group broke into his home

Theo Meadows says he and his daughter were held at…

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Some Gaza mothers forced to reuse diapers, sell jewelry to afford them
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December 10, 2024

Some Gaza mothers forced to reuse diapers, sell jewelry to afford them

As the war continues to ravage the Gaza Strip, basic…

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Poilievre's 'Santa Claus' quip trivialized Inuit presence in Arctic, says national Inuit leader
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December 10, 2024

Poilievre’s ‘Santa Claus’ quip trivialized Inuit presence in Arctic, says national Inuit leader

The leader of the national organization representing Inuit says the…

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Polygamist leader Samuel Bateman draws 50-year sentence for efforts to coerce women, girls into sex
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December 10, 2024

Polygamist leader Samuel Bateman draws 50-year sentence for efforts to coerce women, girls into sex

A polygamist religious leader who claimed more than 20 spiritual…

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This Canadian is the new world champion of spreadsheets, and he has the belt to prove it
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December 9, 2024

This Canadian is the new world champion of spreadsheets, and he has the belt to prove it

Michael Jarman, a Toronto financial modelling director, has become the…

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Chrystia Freeland to present her fall economic update on Dec. 16
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December 9, 2024

Chrystia Freeland to present her fall economic update on Dec. 16

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland will table her much-anticipated fall economic…

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Who is Abu Mohammed al-Golani, the prominent Syrian rebel leader?
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December 9, 2024

Who is Abu Mohammed al-Golani, the prominent Syrian rebel leader?

Militant leader Abu Mohammed al-Golani and his insurgent force, Hayat…

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