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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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Justice, Ontario/Quebec

April 14, 2026

Man found dead in Lake Ontario in 1992 finally ID’d through DNA: police

TORONTO — Toronto police say DNA technology has allowed them…

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Labour, Ontario/Quebec

April 14, 2026

Allison Jones

Ontario proposes ban on requiring workers to pay for uniforms

TORONTO — Ontario’s labour minister is proposing to ban employers…

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Disarming Hezbollah is about much more than guns and rockets
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April 14, 2026

Disarming Hezbollah is about much more than guns and rockets

Lebanon is at a breaking point. On one side, a brutal…

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Why the Lebanon-Israel ceasefire is 'in name only'
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April 14, 2026

Why the Lebanon-Israel ceasefire is ‘in name only’

Nearly three weeks into a U.S.-brokered ceasefire between Lebanon and…

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Trump claims victory as Lebanon braces for the unknown
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April 14, 2026

Trump claims victory as Lebanon braces for the unknown

Donald Trump is in a hurry to pivot away from…

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Disaster, Ontario/Quebec, Weather

April 14, 2026

Heavy rain and thunderstorms drench large stretch of Ontario, bringing flooding risk

A round of heavy spring showers and thunderstorms is set…

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Sports

April 14, 2026

Joshua Clipperton

Maple Leafs close out home schedule in lost season with another defeat

TORONTO — John Tavares and his teammates opened the NHL…

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Saint John police chief accused of misconduct in Ontario, lawsuits reveal
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April 14, 2026

Saint John police chief accused of misconduct in Ontario, lawsuits reveal

The widow of an OPP officer who died by suicide…

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Justice, Ontario/Quebec, Politics

April 14, 2026

Liam Casey

Ontario plans massive jail expansion, internal government documents show

TORONTO — Ontario is planning a massive expansion of jails…

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