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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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Atlantic, Health, Politics

February 5, 2026

N.L. premier says ‘fractured’ federal approach to pharmacare creating inequities

ST. JOHN’S — The premier of Newfoundland and Labrador has…

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Labour, Ontario/Quebec

February 5, 2026

Striking Laurentian University staff to vote on proposed deal as picketing continues

The union representing striking faculty, librarians and counsellors at Laurentian…

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Many kids feel hopeless about climate change. Here's what helps
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February 5, 2026

Many kids feel hopeless about climate change. Here’s what helps

In this issue of our environmental newsletter, we check in…

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Business, Construction, Economy, Real Estate

February 5, 2026

Daniel Johnson

Toronto, Vancouver show biggest signs of mortgage stress: CMHC

The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. says it sees signs…

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Justice, National, Ontario/Quebec

February 5, 2026

Here are all the Toronto officers charged in a corruption and organized crime probe

Eight current and retired Toronto police officers have been charged…

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Who are the Toronto police officers accused of assisting organized crime?
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February 5, 2026

Who are the Toronto police officers accused of assisting organized crime?

A major corruption probe by police in York Region on…

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Sports

February 5, 2026

John Chidley-Hill

Raptors stumble in 128-126 loss to Timberwolves before NBA trade deadline

TORONTO — For 24 minutes, the Toronto Raptors dominated the…

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Moltbook claims to be a social network for AI bots. But humans are behind its rapid growth
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February 5, 2026

Moltbook claims to be a social network for AI bots. But humans are behind its rapid growth

It’s branded as the world’s first social network for AI…

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Children’s Aid Society, couple in murder trial and doctors sued for $4M by family of 2 brothers
Star

February 5, 2026

Children’s Aid Society, couple in murder trial and doctors sued for $4M by family of 2 brothers

The Halton and Ottawa Children’s Aid Societies are being sued…

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