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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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At least 26 killed, including children, after Israeli strikes reported in Gaza
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August 5, 2020

At least 26 killed, including children, after Israeli strikes reported in Gaza

Israeli planes launched strikes in Gaza on Tuesday, killing at…

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Britain's PM called pro-Palestinian rallies on Oct. 7 'un-British.' Hundreds took to the streets anyway
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August 5, 2020

Britain’s PM called pro-Palestinian rallies on Oct. 7 ‘un-British.’ Hundreds took to the streets anyway

Hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters, many of them university students, gathered in…

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Israel has a tight grip over access into Gaza — for foreign aid and journalists
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August 5, 2020

Israel has a tight grip over access into Gaza — for foreign aid and journalists

At the southern end of Gaza’s border with Israel, we…

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What Palestinians think of Trump's proposed ceasefire plan
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August 5, 2020

What Palestinians think of Trump’s proposed ceasefire plan

A day after U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime…

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Trump's latest plan to end the war in Gaza contains the same tripwires as previous ones
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August 5, 2020

Trump’s latest plan to end the war in Gaza contains the same tripwires as previous ones

Despite Donald Trump’s hyperbole that his 20-point peace plan to…

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Canada recognizes a Palestinian state. Israel condemns it. What does that mean for Palestinians?
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August 5, 2020

Canada recognizes a Palestinian state. Israel condemns it. What does that mean for Palestinians?

Last Sunday, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced that Canada would recognize Palestinian…

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Palestinians in Gaza City say sheltering at this hospital is their last hope
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August 5, 2020

Palestinians in Gaza City say sheltering at this hospital is their last hope

In Gaza City, the Al-Quds hospital still stands along the…

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'Systematic destruction' of Gaza City taking place, UN chief says, as Israeli ground offensive underway
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August 5, 2020

‘Systematic destruction’ of Gaza City taking place, UN chief says, as Israeli ground offensive underway

The Israeli military began a ground offensive targeting Gaza City…

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Israel's Supreme Court says Palestinian prisoners are not being fed enough
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August 5, 2020

Israel’s Supreme Court says Palestinian prisoners are not being fed enough

Israel’s Supreme Court on Sunday ruled that the government has…

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