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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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With Trump visit coming up, China hedges its bets on helping Iran
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January 9, 2026

With Trump visit coming up, China hedges its bets on helping Iran

China’s latest blueprint for driving growth in its economy was…

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Canada hasn't yet been asked to help defend Gulf states from Iran, Carney says
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January 9, 2026

Canada hasn’t yet been asked to help defend Gulf states from Iran, Carney says

Iranians say they fear the regime more than airstrikesCBC News…

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Iran's supreme leader dead after major attack by Israel and the U.S.: Trump
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January 9, 2026

Iran’s supreme leader dead after major attack by Israel and the U.S.: Trump

No ‘coherent’ opposition ready to take power, Iranian-Canadian lawyer saysKaveh…

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Trump says he's 'not happy' with Iran but more talks expected on Friday
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January 9, 2026

Trump says he’s ‘not happy’ with Iran but more talks expected on Friday

U.S. President Donald Trump expressed disappointment on  Friday about U.S….

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As tensions simmer between U.S. and Iran, Iraq is feeling the heat
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January 9, 2026

As tensions simmer between U.S. and Iran, Iraq is feeling the heat

Of the many proxy battlegrounds between Iran and the United…

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Iran's Khamenei warns any U.S. attack would spark 'regional war'
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January 9, 2026

Iran’s Khamenei warns any U.S. attack would spark ‘regional war’

Iran’s supreme leader warned Sunday that any attack by the…

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Middle East worries about possible U.S. strike on Iran as Trump makes threats
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January 9, 2026

Middle East worries about possible U.S. strike on Iran as Trump makes threats

Iranian officials reached out to the wider Middle East on…

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Iranian state TV says 3,117 people killed in recent protests, U.S.-based group projects higher toll
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January 9, 2026

Iranian state TV says 3,117 people killed in recent protests, U.S.-based group projects higher toll

Iranian state TV on Wednesday issued the first official death…

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Hackers disrupt Iran state TV to broadcast pro-monarch, anti-crackdown message
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January 9, 2026

Hackers disrupt Iran state TV to broadcast pro-monarch, anti-crackdown message

Hackers disrupted Iranian state television satellite transmissions to air footage…

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