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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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Ontario to end funding to multiple drug consumption sites, forcing them to close
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March 13, 2026

Ontario to end funding to multiple drug consumption sites, forcing them to close

The Ontario government says it will end funding to at…

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Business, Lifestyle, Ontario/Quebec, Retail

March 13, 2026

Allison Jones

Ontario to give retailers the option of opening on Family Day and Victoria Day

TORONTO — Stores across Ontario could soon open on Family…

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Justice, Ontario/Quebec, Politics

March 13, 2026

Allison Jones and Liam Casey

Ontario to make premier, cabinet ministers’ records secret as it tightens FOI laws

TORONTO — Ontario is set to make Premier Doug Ford…

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Al-Quds Day rally to proceed in Toronto despite call by premier for injunction, lawyer says
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March 13, 2026

Al-Quds Day rally to proceed in Toronto despite call by premier for injunction, lawyer says

An Al-Quds Day rally will proceed in Toronto on Saturday…

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Justice, Ontario/Quebec

March 13, 2026

Former Ontario Boy Scouts leader, bus driver charged with historic sexual assaults

TORONTO — A 73-year-old former Boy Scouts leader from Georgina,…

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Ontario/Quebec, Politics, Social

March 13, 2026

Liam Casey

Ontario’s payout to Elon Musk over cancelled Starlink contract to remain secret

TORONTO — Ontario’s payout to Elon Musk’s SpaceX over a…

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Justice, Ontario/Quebec

March 13, 2026

Man who played Hitler’s speech outside Toronto home charged with harassment: police

TORONTO — Toronto police say a man has been charged…

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Poilievre unveils auto plan aiming for tariff-free access to U.S. market
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March 13, 2026

Poilievre unveils auto plan aiming for tariff-free access to U.S. market

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre unveiled the party’s most substantial auto…

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Canada's mid-size cities are growing like big ones — and running into the same fights
Star

March 13, 2026

Canada’s mid-size cities are growing like big ones — and running into the same fights

For generations, growth in many Canadian cities meant the same…

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