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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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Researchers are giving salmon cocaine. Don't worry, it's for science
Star

May 5, 2026

Researchers are giving salmon cocaine. Don’t worry, it’s for science

With cocaine and its metabolite, benzoylecgonine, being detected in waterways…

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Business, National, Ontario/Quebec

May 5, 2026

Corrective to May 1 story about proposed ban on energy drinks for children under 16

In a story that moved on May 1, about calls…

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Ontario/Quebec

May 5, 2026

Fire at Toronto condo buildings caused by repair work after last year’s blaze: chief

TORONTO — Officials say a fire at two Toronto highrises…

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Canada has a new Governor General: 5 key takeaways from Louise Arbour's installation speech
Star

May 5, 2026

Canada has a new Governor General: 5 key takeaways from Louise Arbour’s installation speech

In a ceremony steeped in tradition, celebrated jurist and human…

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Carney picks former Supreme Court justice Louise Arbour to be governor general
Star

May 5, 2026

Carney picks former Supreme Court justice Louise Arbour to be governor general

Prime Minister Mark Carney has named former Supreme Court justice…

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Business, Justice, Ontario/Quebec, Politics, Retail, Sports

May 5, 2026

Tara Deschamps

New Ontario law capping resale prices frustrates season ticket holders

TORONTO — Ryan Van Horne has had season tickets for…

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Scammers are getting Rogers customers to mail them 'free' iPads
Star

May 5, 2026

Scammers are getting Rogers customers to mail them ‘free’ iPads

Rogers customers are on the hook for a $2,300 iPad…

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Health, Justice, Ontario/Quebec

May 5, 2026

Man charged with stealing ceremonial gong from cancer centre in Kitchener

KITCHENER — Police in Kitchener, Ont., say a man has…

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Sports

May 4, 2026

Joshua Clipperton

Maple Leafs introduce Sundin, Chayka as Toronto’s new management team

TORONTO — Mats Sundin took his spot on stage. A…

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