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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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Governments must rein in online gambling before it's too late, say public health experts
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November 17, 2024

Governments must rein in online gambling before it’s too late, say public health experts

As the gambling industry expands worldwide with the increasing popularity…

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Laurier advances to Vanier Cup after blowing out Bishop's in Uteck Bowl
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November 16, 2024

Laurier advances to Vanier Cup after blowing out Bishop’s in Uteck Bowl

The No. 2-ranked Laurier Golden Hawks advanced to the Vanier…

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IN PHOTOS | This week's most compelling Canadian images
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November 16, 2024

IN PHOTOS | This week’s most compelling Canadian images

From the long journey home for The Roaring Lion in…

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Chief electoral officer proposes legislative changes to crack down on deepfakes
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November 16, 2024

Chief electoral officer proposes legislative changes to crack down on deepfakes

Canada’s elections chief wants a ban on the misrepresentation of…

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Researchers diagnose 27 cases of scurvy in northern Sask. community
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November 16, 2024

Researchers diagnose 27 cases of scurvy in northern Sask. community

Doctors in northern Sask. discovered an unusual number of scurvy…

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TikTok content creators worry that Canadian office shutdown will lead to app ban
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November 16, 2024

TikTok content creators worry that Canadian office shutdown will lead to app ban

After the federal government ordered TikTok to close its Canadian…

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Man found guilty of murdering ex-partner in hearing that brought jurors and detectives to tears
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November 16, 2024

Man found guilty of murdering ex-partner in hearing that brought jurors and detectives to tears

Late Friday night, in a darkened Ottawa courthouse, a jury…

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'Water to my neck': Woman saves boy who fell through ice in northern Sask.
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November 16, 2024

‘Water to my neck’: Woman saves boy who fell through ice in northern Sask.

A Saskatchewan woman is being called a hero after putting…

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P.E.I. cancer survivor's 'unbelievable' 120-km triathlon captured in new documentary
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November 16, 2024

P.E.I. cancer survivor’s ‘unbelievable’ 120-km triathlon captured in new documentary

A new documentary is about to premiere that chronicles a…

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