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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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'Pink cocaine': What is it and how is it linked to Liam Payne and Sean (Diddy) Combs? | CBC News
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October 23, 2024

‘Pink cocaine’: What is it and how is it linked to Liam Payne and Sean (Diddy) Combs? | CBC News

Drug and addiction experts are raising alarms about a “fashionable”…

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Turkey strikes targets in Iraq, Syria, hours after deadly attack on state-run defence company | CBC News
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October 23, 2024

Turkey strikes targets in Iraq, Syria, hours after deadly attack on state-run defence company | CBC News

Turkey’s air force struck Kurdish militant targets in Iraq and…

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'All we could see was the soles of her feet': Woman stuck for 7 hours after dropping phone in crevice | CBC News
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October 23, 2024

‘All we could see was the soles of her feet’: Woman stuck for 7 hours after dropping phone in crevice | CBC News

An Australian woman was rescued earlier this month after getting…

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This Halifax woman needed a donor, and her donors needed a doctor — now they have one | CBC News
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October 23, 2024

This Halifax woman needed a donor, and her donors needed a doctor — now they have one | CBC News

A Halifax doctor has stepped up to help a local…

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Police release new details on workplace death of 19-year-old at Halifax Walmart | CBC News
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October 22, 2024

Police release new details on workplace death of 19-year-old at Halifax Walmart | CBC News

Store remains closed for the fourth consecutive day after the…

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U.S. ramps up Israel-Hamas ceasefire efforts with Blinken visit as all sides dig in | CBC News
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October 22, 2024

U.S. ramps up Israel-Hamas ceasefire efforts with Blinken visit as all sides dig in | CBC News

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Israel on…

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Ontario passes bill that allows major Toronto bike lanes to be ripped out
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October 22, 2024

Ontario passes bill that allows major Toronto bike lanes to be ripped out

The Ontario government has officially passed Bill 212 — a controversial…

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Injured cyclists can't sue province under amendment to new Ontario bike lane bill, NDP says
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October 22, 2024

Injured cyclists can’t sue province under amendment to new Ontario bike lane bill, NDP says

Opposition MPPs slammed amendments to the Ford government’s controversial bike…

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Do bike lanes really cause more traffic congestion? Here's what the research says | CBC News
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October 22, 2024

Do bike lanes really cause more traffic congestion? Here’s what the research says | CBC News

The subject of bike lanes can be a contentious one,…

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