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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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Justice, Ontario/Quebec

January 30, 2026

Officers’ alleged assault on lawyer at Oshawa courthouse referred to York police

Durham regional police say they have referred allegations that officers…

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Business, Finance, Insurance, Justice, National, Politics

January 30, 2026

Jim Bronskill

Insurance policy doesn’t entitle family to additional rebuilding costs: Supreme Court

OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada has sided with…

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Ontario/Quebec, Politics

January 30, 2026

Liam Casey

Ontario PCs reverse course on media ban, will let reporters cover Doug Ford’s speech at party convention

TORONTO — Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario has…

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Who will investigate the circumstances around Winter Acorn’s death? So far, no one
Star

January 30, 2026

Who will investigate the circumstances around Winter Acorn’s death? So far, no one

Nearly a year after a three-month-old P.E.I. baby died at…

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Justice, National, Ontario/Quebec

January 30, 2026

Maan Alhmidi

Canadian man pleads guilty to sexually exploiting 100-plus girls in the United States

A 40-year-old man from Toronto has pleaded guilty in the…

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Canadian comedy legend Catherine O'Hara, who lit up SCTV and stole scenes on Schitt's Creek, dead at 71
Star

January 30, 2026

Canadian comedy legend Catherine O’Hara, who lit up SCTV and stole scenes on Schitt’s Creek, dead at 71

Catherine O’Hara, the gifted Canadian comic actor who gave life…

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As GM Oshawa layoffs begin, workers leave the plant and enter an uncertain job market
Star

January 30, 2026

As GM Oshawa layoffs begin, workers leave the plant and enter an uncertain job market

Friday marks the last day of work for up to…

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Appeal court rules in favour of Ottawa's toxic plastic listing
Star

January 30, 2026

Appeal court rules in favour of Ottawa’s toxic plastic listing

In a victory for the Liberal government, the Federal Court…

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Former CNN anchor Don Lemon arrested after protest inside Minneapolis church
Star

January 30, 2026

Former CNN anchor Don Lemon arrested after protest inside Minneapolis church

Journalist Don Lemon was released from custody Friday after he…

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