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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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In wartime Ukraine, wary Kherson residents watch the skies for drones | CBC News
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April 11, 2024

In wartime Ukraine, wary Kherson residents watch the skies for drones | CBC News

Olga Chernyshova’s family runs a grocery store in the port…

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There are cellphone bans in schools around the world. Do any of them work? | CBC News
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March 28, 2024

There are cellphone bans in schools around the world. Do any of them work? | CBC News

From magnetic locking pouches and blocked Wi-Fi access to outright bans and legislation,…

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Sextorters are targeting young boys online — and flaunting how rich the scam is making them
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March 21, 2024

Sextorters are targeting young boys online — and flaunting how rich the scam is making them

Warning: This story deals with suicide.For self-proclaimed scammer “John,” luring…

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Medication error on top of cancer, infection insurmountable for this piano teacher | CBC News
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February 19, 2024

Medication error on top of cancer, infection insurmountable for this piano teacher | CBC News

This story is part of CBC Health’s Second Opinion, a…

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Her husband died in the Moncton Hospital. She wants the next provincial government to change health care | CBC News
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February 19, 2024

Her husband died in the Moncton Hospital. She wants the next provincial government to change health care | CBC News

An Ontario woman whose husband died in a New Brunswick…

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New medical school for family doctors aims to help solve the shortage | CBC Radio
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February 19, 2024

New medical school for family doctors aims to help solve the shortage | CBC Radio

White Coat Black Art26:30This school’s for family docs onlyThe people…

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Some seniors outraged for being left out of federal plan to dole out $250 cheques
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February 19, 2024

Some seniors outraged for being left out of federal plan to dole out $250 cheques

Some Canadian seniors say they’re feeling abandoned by the Liberal…

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Trudeau government to send $250 cheques to most people, slash GST on some goods
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February 19, 2024

Trudeau government to send $250 cheques to most people, slash GST on some goods

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Thursday a suite of new…

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School food programs hope $1B from Ottawa will fill need as they wait for governments to sign on | CBC News
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February 19, 2024

School food programs hope $1B from Ottawa will fill need as they wait for governments to sign on | CBC News

By 8 a.m. — as most people begin weekday morning…

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