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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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CN Rail mechanics, clerks vote overwhelmingly to approve strike mandate
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November 25, 2024

CN Rail mechanics, clerks vote overwhelmingly to approve strike mandate

Mechanics and clerks at Canadian National Railway Co. have voted…

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Judge dismisses election interference case against Donald Trump at prosecutors' request
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November 25, 2024

Judge dismisses election interference case against Donald Trump at prosecutors’ request

Special counsel Jack Smith moved to abandon two criminal cases…

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16 missing after tourist yacht sinks in the Red Sea, Egyptian officials say
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November 25, 2024

16 missing after tourist yacht sinks in the Red Sea, Egyptian officials say

A tourist yacht sank in the Red Sea on Monday…

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Montreal mayor, police chief defend officers after weekend anti-NATO protest vandalism
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November 25, 2024

Montreal mayor, police chief defend officers after weekend anti-NATO protest vandalism

Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante condemned the actions of protesters and defended…

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Smaller businesses to start receiving carbon rebates today
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November 25, 2024

Smaller businesses to start receiving carbon rebates today

About 600,000 small businesses will start receiving their long-awaited federal…

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NDP MPs call for investigation into 'potato cartel' price-fixing allegations
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November 25, 2024

NDP MPs call for investigation into ‘potato cartel’ price-fixing allegations

Two federal politicians have asked Canada’s competition commissioner to investigate…

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Biden, Macron set to announce Israel-Hezbollah truce, say Lebanese sources
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November 25, 2024

Biden, Macron set to announce Israel-Hezbollah truce, say Lebanese sources

U.S. President Joe Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron are…

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Sightings of deer wearing high-vis jacket raise questions, quips and concerns in B.C. village
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November 25, 2024

Sightings of deer wearing high-vis jacket raise questions, quips and concerns in B.C. village

Andrea Arnold knows a lot about what goes on in…

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3 former NHLers attend pretrial hearings in London, Ont., ahead of world juniors sexual assault trial
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November 25, 2024

3 former NHLers attend pretrial hearings in London, Ont., ahead of world juniors sexual assault trial

Three of the five former NHL players accused of sexual…

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