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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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Montreal landlords under fire for rent increases as high as 20%
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March 13, 2026

Montreal landlords under fire for rent increases as high as 20%

Ali Kamruzzaman has lived in the same apartment in Montreal’s…

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Tenant who accepted Ontario landlord’s $40K to move out for renos says he’s worse off
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March 13, 2026

Tenant who accepted Ontario landlord’s $40K to move out for renos says he’s worse off

After a months-long fight with his landlord, Shannon Lucas accepted…

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For every 100 nurses hired, Manitoba lost 57, provincial data shows
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March 13, 2026

For every 100 nurses hired, Manitoba lost 57, provincial data shows

Turnover is erasing more than half of the nurse hiring…

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Hospital ERs in Canada are at a breaking point and have been for some time. Is this the new normal?
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March 13, 2026

Hospital ERs in Canada are at a breaking point and have been for some time. Is this the new normal?

Six days in an overflow stretcher. Beds in storage rooms….

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Business, Disaster, Lifestyle, Ontario/Quebec, Travel

March 13, 2026

Sharif Hassan

Canadians turning to March break alternatives amid tensions in Cuba, Mexico

TORONTO — Many Canadian travellers have opted for alternative March…

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Sports

March 13, 2026

Joshua Clipperton

Maple Leafs top Ducks to end losing streak; Matthews injured after knee-on-knee hit

TORONTO — William Nylander scored the go-ahead goal on a…

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Alberta hospitals must admit patients to prevent ER backlogs, says review into Edmonton man's death
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March 13, 2026

Alberta hospitals must admit patients to prevent ER backlogs, says review into Edmonton man’s death

To help prevent a backlog of patients in emergency rooms,…

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As war between Israel and Hezbollah escalates, life in Lebanon poised to get 'uglier day by day'
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March 13, 2026

As war between Israel and Hezbollah escalates, life in Lebanon poised to get ‘uglier day by day’

Almost two weeks into the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran, the…

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National, Ontario/Quebec

March 12, 2026

Allison Jones

Niagara chair resigns after accusations of owning signed copy of Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’

An Ontario government appointee has resigned as chair of the…

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