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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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Russia is using its hypersonic missile to send a political message. How dangerous is the Oresnik?
Star

January 9, 2026

Russia is using its hypersonic missile to send a political message. How dangerous is the Oresnik?

Russia didn’t just use a hypersonic missile to target a…

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U.S. man extradited to Canada decades after brutal slaying of senior citizen at B.C. rest stop
Star

January 9, 2026

U.S. man extradited to Canada decades after brutal slaying of senior citizen at B.C. rest stop

The victim was a great-grandfather driving through Canada. The accused…

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Tapping out: Why Calgarians might not be cutting water use during latest crisis
Star

January 9, 2026

Tapping out: Why Calgarians might not be cutting water use during latest crisis

It’s an all-too-familiar ask of a city likely weary of…

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Canada's women's hockey team for Milano-Cortina Olympics heavy on veterans from 2022 gold squad
Star

January 9, 2026

Canada’s women’s hockey team for Milano-Cortina Olympics heavy on veterans from 2022 gold squad

16 veterans from 2022 team headline Olympic rosterThe roster is…

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Justice, Ontario/Quebec

January 9, 2026

Paola Loriggio

Man accused in Ryan Wedding case seeks to protect IDs of sureties, citing safety risk

TORONTO — An Ontario man arrested in a sweep targeting…

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Justice, Ontario/Quebec, Politics

January 9, 2026

Allison Jones and Liam Casey

Ontario sues Skills Development Fund-linked company over alleged fraud

TORONTO — The Ontario government has filed a lawsuit against…

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Canada now approves far fewer Jordan’s Principle education requests in Ontario, tribunal hears
Star

January 9, 2026

Canada now approves far fewer Jordan’s Principle education requests in Ontario, tribunal hears

The federal government has drastically cut funding for First Nations…

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Justice, Ontario/Quebec

January 9, 2026

Man, 18, arrested in two unprovoked stabbings in Toronto: police

TORONTO — Toronto police say an 18-year-old man has been…

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Iran says Israel must withdraw from Lebanon to sign tentative deal to end war with U.S.
Star

January 9, 2026

Iran says Israel must withdraw from Lebanon to sign tentative deal to end war with U.S.

Iran’s top diplomat said Tuesday that the tentative deal to…

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