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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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Ex-Marine acquitted in fatal NYC subway chokehold incident
Star

December 9, 2024

Ex-Marine acquitted in fatal NYC subway chokehold incident

A jury in New York City has cleared former Marine…

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Calgary's unemployment rate is trending higher than Canada's — but it's not because of layoffs
Star

December 9, 2024

Calgary’s unemployment rate is trending higher than Canada’s — but it’s not because of layoffs

Calgary’s unemployment rate continues to trend higher than the national…

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Jay-Z calls lawsuit alleging rape at Sean Combs-hosted party a 'blackmail attempt'
Star

December 9, 2024

Jay-Z calls lawsuit alleging rape at Sean Combs-hosted party a ‘blackmail attempt’

An amended lawsuit filed in federal court on Sunday alleges…

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'Deny' 'Delay' and a health CEO's murder
Star

December 9, 2024

‘Deny’ ‘Delay’ and a health CEO’s murder

The killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson has put a…

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Saskatoon, Regina working on solutions as more encampments pop up in frigid temperatures
Star

December 9, 2024

Saskatoon, Regina working on solutions as more encampments pop up in frigid temperatures

Records sent to CBC News by the Saskatoon Fire Department…

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Demand growing for cadaver dogs to assist in searches at former residential schools
Star

December 9, 2024

Demand growing for cadaver dogs to assist in searches at former residential schools

As First Nations communities continue to hone in on possible…

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'Nobody wants us around': Ontario plans for tougher rules on encampments and drug use stir emotional debate
Star

December 9, 2024

‘Nobody wants us around’: Ontario plans for tougher rules on encampments and drug use stir emotional debate

Premier Doug Ford’s announcement he’ll introduce legislation to address the…

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How a British penguin got her waddle back, thanks to the Toronto Zoo
Star

December 9, 2024

How a British penguin got her waddle back, thanks to the Toronto Zoo

After a penguin in England lost her waddle, her caretakers…

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He thought his car's crash-prevention technology would make him safer. Now he no longer trusts it
Star

December 9, 2024

He thought his car’s crash-prevention technology would make him safer. Now he no longer trusts it

Last month, CBC News reported on a Quebec man who…

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