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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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How Canada's only rice mill hopes to avoid disruptive counter tariffs
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November 26, 2024

How Canada’s only rice mill hopes to avoid disruptive counter tariffs

Caught in the crossfire of a trade war between Canada…

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Auto part retailers in N.L. have been preparing for Trump's tariffs, but worry about lasting impacts
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November 26, 2024

Auto part retailers in N.L. have been preparing for Trump’s tariffs, but worry about lasting impacts

Colonial Auto Parts president and CEO Douglas Squires says U.S….

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Amid Trump threats, Canadian War of 1812 re-enactors are skipping American battles
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November 26, 2024

Amid Trump threats, Canadian War of 1812 re-enactors are skipping American battles

The boom of a stout iron cannon reverberates across farmers’…

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Trump wants to upend the entire global order. Can he stomach the price tag?
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November 26, 2024

Trump wants to upend the entire global order. Can he stomach the price tag?

Global stock markets were wiped out by more than $2…

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Trump's trade war goes global, and there's bad news for everyone
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November 26, 2024

Trump’s trade war goes global, and there’s bad news for everyone

After spending a few weeks pounding on Canada and Mexico,…

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Red, white and bruised: World braces for battery of Trump tariffs
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November 26, 2024

Red, white and bruised: World braces for battery of Trump tariffs

After spending more than two years teasing tariffs, tomorrow is the…

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Trump wants to tariff Canadian-made drugs. Experts warn U.S. patients could pay the price
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November 26, 2024

Trump wants to tariff Canadian-made drugs. Experts warn U.S. patients could pay the price

Prescription drugs have been exempt from tariffs in the past….

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How Trump uses disinformation in his trade war with Canada
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November 26, 2024

How Trump uses disinformation in his trade war with Canada

“Nobody knows that Canada is charging our dairy farmers,” U.S….

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The trade war is here. You'll notice it at the grocery store first
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November 26, 2024

The trade war is here. You’ll notice it at the grocery store first

Canadians’ pocketbooks will likely be the victim of a prolonged…

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