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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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Sports

February 27, 2026

John Chidley-Hill

Raptors looking for more consistency after close losses to Thunder, Spurs

TORONTO — The Toronto Raptors are well aware that they…

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Trump directs all federal agencies to stop using AI company Anthropic's technology
Star

February 27, 2026

Trump directs all federal agencies to stop using AI company Anthropic’s technology

The Trump administration on Friday ordered all U.S. agencies to…

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Pakistan and Afghanistan: How we got here and what might happen next
Star

February 27, 2026

Pakistan and Afghanistan: How we got here and what might happen next

The Pakistan defence minister’s declaration of “open war” between his…

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Ontario/Quebec, Politics

February 27, 2026

Allison Jones

Niagara councillors vote to slow regional chair’s governance consultations

A move by the Niagara regional chair to review municipal…

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Justice, Ontario/Quebec, Social

February 27, 2026

Sharif Hassan

Toronto-area drug dealers’ push north leads to ‘tragedy’ in First Nation communities

First Nations leaders and police in northern Ontario say they…

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Justice, Ontario/Quebec

February 27, 2026

Seven people charged in Ontario drug trafficking investigation: police

Ontario Provincial Police say seven people are facing multiple charges…

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Sports

February 27, 2026

Canada blanks Italy 4-0 in para hockey tune-up before Paralympics

VARESE — Canada’s para hockey team wrapped up its pre-Paralympic…

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Why putting spit hoods on people is risky — and can be deadly
Star

February 27, 2026

Why putting spit hoods on people is risky — and can be deadly

On Christmas Eve 2022, Sarafina Dennie was preparing a holiday…

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Even Neve Campbell can't save controversy-laden Scream 7
Star

February 27, 2026

Even Neve Campbell can’t save controversy-laden Scream 7

Scream 7 may mark the return of scream queen Neve…

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