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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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No whey, a cottage cheese shortage? Demand surges amid protein craze
Star

April 19, 2026

No whey, a cottage cheese shortage? Demand surges amid protein craze

It’s not easy to eat healthily these days amid what…

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Quick service restaurants are taking a bigger hit as Canadians feel crunched by the cost of living
Star

April 19, 2026

Quick service restaurants are taking a bigger hit as Canadians feel crunched by the cost of living

At The Birds & The Beets in Vancouver, Matthew Senecal-Junkeer’s…

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Queen Elizabeth’s 'legacy is locked in': 100th anniversary of her birth prompts nostalgia, commemoration
Star

April 19, 2026

Queen Elizabeth’s ‘legacy is locked in’: 100th anniversary of her birth prompts nostalgia, commemoration

The commemoration of the 100th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth’s birth…

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Public grocery stores are having a moment. Can they really make food more affordable?
Star

April 19, 2026

Public grocery stores are having a moment. Can they really make food more affordable?

LISTEN | Could public grocery stores work in Canada?:The Current19:24Can…

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Rare footage reveals 'fish city' near an Ontario nuclear plant on Lake Huron
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April 19, 2026

Rare footage reveals ‘fish city’ near an Ontario nuclear plant on Lake Huron

In the warm waters emanating from Ontario’s largest nuclear plant,…

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This Japanese town cancelled its cherry blossom festival to stop overtourism. It didn’t work
Star

April 19, 2026

This Japanese town cancelled its cherry blossom festival to stop overtourism. It didn’t work

Fujiyoshida was a sleepy town with a great view —…

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Sports

April 18, 2026

Kaitlyn McGrath

Toronto FC tallies late to salvage 3-3 draw with visiting Austin FC

TORONTO — Kobe Franklin had hoped his first career MLS…

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Sports

April 18, 2026

John Chidley-Hill

Fans travel to support Raptors in Cleveland for playoff opener against Cavaliers

CLEVELAND — Even though he was wearing camouflage, there was…

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Justice, National, Ontario/Quebec, Social

April 18, 2026

Kathryn Mannie

Kenneth Law to plead guilty to some counts, Crown to withdraw murder charges: lawyer

The lawyer for Kenneth Law, an Ontario man accused of…

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