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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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Why taxpayers are still footing bill for airline complaints process
Star

January 18, 2026

Why taxpayers are still footing bill for airline complaints process

The airline complaints process costs taxpayers nearly $30 million a…

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Survey from Winnipeg spa asked 'blatantly disrespectful' question about 'purity of the country': customer
Star

January 18, 2026

Survey from Winnipeg spa asked ‘blatantly disrespectful’ question about ‘purity of the country’: customer

The parent company of Winnipeg spa Thermea is pulling a…

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Are you overpaying for a lab-grown diamond?: CBC Marketplace cheat sheet
Star

January 18, 2026

Are you overpaying for a lab-grown diamond?: CBC Marketplace cheat sheet

The CBC’s Marketplace rounds up the consumer and health news…

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Life on a highway: What it’s like for southern Alberta communities divided by a major thoroughfare
Star

January 18, 2026

Life on a highway: What it’s like for southern Alberta communities divided by a major thoroughfare

CBC News has been travelling to small towns across Alberta,…

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Doctors can now perform robotic procedures from afar. What that means for rural Canadians
Star

January 18, 2026

Doctors can now perform robotic procedures from afar. What that means for rural Canadians

Even from a few kilometres away, Dr. Vitor Mendes Pereira…

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Craft beer in Canada is losing its fizz, as sales dry up and more breweries go bust
Star

January 18, 2026

Craft beer in Canada is losing its fizz, as sales dry up and more breweries go bust

After years of seemingly unlimited growth for the craft beer…

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I wanted to save my family’s stories. Instead, I found a connection I didn’t know I was missing
Star

January 18, 2026

I wanted to save my family’s stories. Instead, I found a connection I didn’t know I was missing

When he started recording a podcast about his family’s history,…

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Nuclear fusion seems hot right now — but how close is fusion power?
Star

January 18, 2026

Nuclear fusion seems hot right now — but how close is fusion power?

Recent nuclear fusion news from Canada and China has created…

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Sports

January 18, 2026

Russell-Rowe scores as Canada downs Guatemala 1-0 in men’s soccer B international

LOS ANGELES — Canada coach Jesse Marsch liked what he…

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