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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 may be exaggerating its missile-making capabilities, but experts say it's still a threat
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January 9, 2026

Iran may be exaggerating its missile-making capabilities, but experts say it’s still a threat

Despite continued heavy pounding from U.S. and Israeli military forces,…

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Trump threatens to 'blow up the entirety' of world's largest gas field if Iran attacks Qatar again
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January 9, 2026

Trump threatens to ‘blow up the entirety’ of world’s largest gas field if Iran attacks Qatar again

Iran intensified its attacks on its Gulf Arab neighbours’ energy…

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Iran launches attacks on Israel, Gulf neighbours after 2 high-ranking leaders killed
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January 9, 2026

Iran launches attacks on Israel, Gulf neighbours after 2 high-ranking leaders killed

Iran launched a new wave of strikes on its Persian…

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Why allies aren't leaping to Trump's aid in Strait of Hormuz
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January 9, 2026

Why allies aren’t leaping to Trump’s aid in Strait of Hormuz

U.S. President Donald Trump is struggling to persuade other nations…

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Iran vows retaliation for U.S. attack on Kharg Island oil hub as war enters 3rd week
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January 9, 2026

Iran vows retaliation for U.S. attack on Kharg Island oil hub as war enters 3rd week

The latest: Iran threatens to target “American hideouts” in the…

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U.S. orders 2,500 marines, amphibious assault ship to Mideast after almost 2 weeks of war
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January 9, 2026

U.S. orders 2,500 marines, amphibious assault ship to Mideast after almost 2 weeks of war

The American military has ordered 2,500 marines and an amphibious…

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Iran may have laid sea mines in the Strait of Hormuz. Here's what that could mean for the war
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January 9, 2026

Iran may have laid sea mines in the Strait of Hormuz. Here’s what that could mean for the war

The possibility of sea mines in the Strait of Hormuz…

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Black rain is falling in Iran after strikes on oil facilities. Scientists warn of long-term consequences
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January 9, 2026

Black rain is falling in Iran after strikes on oil facilities. Scientists warn of long-term consequences

Scientists say the health and environmental effects of Israeli strikes…

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Iran names Khamenei's son Mojtaba as new supreme leader: state media
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January 9, 2026

Iran names Khamenei’s son Mojtaba as new supreme leader: state media

Mojtaba Khamenei, the 56-year-old son of former supreme leader Ali…

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