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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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Iran closes Strait of Hormuz over U.S. blockade of its ports, fires on ships trying to pass
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January 9, 2026

Iran closes Strait of Hormuz over U.S. blockade of its ports, fires on ships trying to pass

The standoff over the Strait of Hormuz escalated again on Saturday as Iran reversed…

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Is the Strait of Hormuz really open again? Here's what we know — and don't know
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January 9, 2026

Is the Strait of Hormuz really open again? Here’s what we know — and don’t know

Despite assurances from both Iran and U.S. President Donald Trump…

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Internet blackout leaves Iranians with little idea of how the war is actually going
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January 9, 2026

Internet blackout leaves Iranians with little idea of how the war is actually going

After 40 days of combat, the Iran war has reached…

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U.S. military says it plans to clear the Strait of Hormuz as ceasefire talks with Iran continue
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January 9, 2026

U.S. military says it plans to clear the Strait of Hormuz as ceasefire talks with Iran continue

The United States and Iran began face-to-face negotiations in Pakistan…

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Trump rages, NATO endures: Why the alliance is harder to kill than it looks
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January 9, 2026

Trump rages, NATO endures: Why the alliance is harder to kill than it looks

As much as U.S. President Donald Trump may want it…

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U.S. says it's reviewing proposal to extend deadline for Iran to reopen Strait of Hormuz
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January 9, 2026

U.S. says it’s reviewing proposal to extend deadline for Iran to reopen Strait of Hormuz

What will happen next? 4 possible scenariosDonald Trump is prone…

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Trump says Iranians are willing to suffer U.S. bombing power plants 'in order to have freedom'
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January 9, 2026

Trump says Iranians are willing to suffer U.S. bombing power plants ‘in order to have freedom’

Tehran has rejected the latest ceasefire proposal and wants a…

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Trump vows 'hell' for Iran in latest threat over reopening Strait of Hormuz
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January 9, 2026

Trump vows ‘hell’ for Iran in latest threat over reopening Strait of Hormuz

WARNING: This story contains profanity. U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday…

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Trump gives Iran 48 hours to make a deal as search continues for missing U.S. pilot
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January 9, 2026

Trump gives Iran 48 hours to make a deal as search continues for missing U.S. pilot

Iranian and U.S. forces were searching for a missing American…

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