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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 bill aimed at ending encampments to strengthen trespass, drug penalties
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December 17, 2023

Ontario bill aimed at ending encampments to strengthen trespass, drug penalties

Premier Doug Ford’s government is introducing new legislation that it…

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117 homebuyers out millions, as Ontario builder admits to selling homes without legal approvals | CBC News
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December 16, 2023

117 homebuyers out millions, as Ontario builder admits to selling homes without legal approvals | CBC News

More than 100 people are out tens of thousands of…

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Kenneth Law, who sold poisonous chemical linked to 131 deaths, sued by Ontario teen's parents | CBC News
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December 11, 2023

Kenneth Law, who sold poisonous chemical linked to 131 deaths, sued by Ontario teen’s parents | CBC News

WARNING: This story contains distressing details.Two years after losing her…

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Buffy Sainte-Marie's Order of Canada terminated by Governor General
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October 27, 2023

Buffy Sainte-Marie’s Order of Canada terminated by Governor General

Buffy Sainte-Marie’s Order of Canada has been terminated, nearly three…

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Modi says Carney invited him to G7, 1st visit to Canada since RCMP linked India to killings, extortion
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September 22, 2023

Modi says Carney invited him to G7, 1st visit to Canada since RCMP linked India to killings, extortion

Prime Minister Mark Carney defended his decision to invite Indian Prime Minister…

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Piece by piece, cranes lift 84 prefabricated rental units into place in downtown Calgary
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August 1, 2023

Piece by piece, cranes lift 84 prefabricated rental units into place in downtown Calgary

Along a busy street on the west end of downtown,…

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Why Ontario's 1.5M new homes target looks increasingly out of reach
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August 1, 2023

Why Ontario’s 1.5M new homes target looks increasingly out of reach

The new Ontario budget foresees a slow pace for housing construction…

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Mike Holmes endorsement ads for renovation company disappear amid CBC investigation
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August 1, 2023

Mike Holmes endorsement ads for renovation company disappear amid CBC investigation

Trusted Canadian TV celebrity contractor Mike Holmes has endorsed AGM…

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First Nation members say they got OK to install home security cameras. Now they're being evicted
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August 1, 2023

First Nation members say they got OK to install home security cameras. Now they’re being evicted

MaryAnne Kenney’s father passed away when she was four, without ever…

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