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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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These aren't your Granny's Smiths: Why we have more apple varieties than ever before
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November 16, 2024

These aren’t your Granny’s Smiths: Why we have more apple varieties than ever before

The apple game has changed, right under our very apple…

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Jasper is home, but after the wildfire, I have to say goodbye
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November 16, 2024

Jasper is home, but after the wildfire, I have to say goodbye

Stephen A. Nelson had struggled for over a decade to…

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Tests show high level of 'forever chemicals' in Montreal firefighter bunker gear
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November 16, 2024

Tests show high level of ‘forever chemicals’ in Montreal firefighter bunker gear

The chemical cocktails that are emitted when modern homes burn,…

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Why cancer researchers are excited about targeted alpha therapy
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November 16, 2024

Why cancer researchers are excited about targeted alpha therapy

Canadian cancer researchers are part of global efforts to test…

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How Remembrance Day and politics collided — and what it means for the future
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November 16, 2024

How Remembrance Day and politics collided — and what it means for the future

One of the most revered days in the Canadian calendar…

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Hamilton community leaders denounce hate after anti-immigrant demonstration in city centre
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November 16, 2024

Hamilton community leaders denounce hate after anti-immigrant demonstration in city centre

Less than a week after anti-immigrant demonstrators stood in the…

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Trump victory a boon to Israeli settlers who hope to annex West Bank
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November 16, 2024

Trump victory a boon to Israeli settlers who hope to annex West Bank

Supporters of Israel’s decades-old settlement enterprise in the occupied Palestinian…

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Small and rural businesses say cost of Canada Post strike will hit them hard
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November 16, 2024

Small and rural businesses say cost of Canada Post strike will hit them hard

Other delivery companies charge significantly more than Canada Post, business…

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Mike Tyson's fight with Jake Paul on Netflix draws eyeballs, and dollars. Is it good for the sport?
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November 15, 2024

Mike Tyson’s fight with Jake Paul on Netflix draws eyeballs, and dollars. Is it good for the sport?

Social media personality Jake Paul beat former heavyweight champion Mike…

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