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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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Judge approves class-action lawsuit for Alberta business owners hurt by pandemic restrictions
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October 31, 2024

Judge approves class-action lawsuit for Alberta business owners hurt by pandemic restrictions

A Calgary judge has certified a class action lawsuit for…

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Alberta woman's medically assisted death delayed last minute by B.C. judge
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October 31, 2024

Alberta woman’s medically assisted death delayed last minute by B.C. judge

An Alberta woman was denied a medically assisted death in…

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Veteran metalworker suspected of setting ballot boxes ablaze in Oregon, Washington states
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October 31, 2024

Veteran metalworker suspected of setting ballot boxes ablaze in Oregon, Washington states

The man suspected of setting fires in ballot drop boxes…

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Israeli strikes threaten Hezbollah stronghold Baalbek and its 3,000-year-old Roman ruins
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October 31, 2024

Israeli strikes threaten Hezbollah stronghold Baalbek and its 3,000-year-old Roman ruins

Israel ramped up bombing in the historic city of Baalbek…

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Alberta infrastructure minister accepted free Edmonton Oilers playoff tickets
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October 30, 2024

Alberta infrastructure minister accepted free Edmonton Oilers playoff tickets

Alberta’s Infrastructure Minister Peter Guthrie says he accepted free Edmonton…

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'Not going to play their games': Singh won't help Tories, Bloc topple the Liberals
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October 30, 2024

‘Not going to play their games’: Singh won’t help Tories, Bloc topple the Liberals

New Democrats will not cave to demands from the Bloc…

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Slivered onions likely source of E. coli outbreak at U.S. McDonald's, CDC says
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October 30, 2024

Slivered onions likely source of E. coli outbreak at U.S. McDonald’s, CDC says

Slivered onions served on McDonald’s items including Quarter Pounder hamburgers…

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Attempts to put Trudeau leadership question to rest only making caucus tensions worse, MP says
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October 30, 2024

Attempts to put Trudeau leadership question to rest only making caucus tensions worse, MP says

One of the Liberal MPs calling for a secret ballot…

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As sales drop, Starbucks is killing extra charges for non-dairy options
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October 30, 2024

As sales drop, Starbucks is killing extra charges for non-dairy options

Starbucks will stop charging customers an extra fee for substituting…

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