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Rogers Communications Inc. and the National Hockey League have announced a new 12-year agreement valued at $ 11 billion for the national media rights to NHL games on all platforms in Canada. CBC | Sports News
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Rogers to retain Canadian NHL rights with 12-year, $7.7-billion US deal: reports
The NHL and Rogers have agreed to a new 12-year Canadian broadcasting deal worth US$ 7.7 billion, a person familiar with the deal told The Associated Press. CBC | Sports News
Read More »South Korea committed rights violations during overseas adoptions, truth commission finds
South Korean adoption agencies sent children abroad like “luggage” for decades, labelling some as orphans when they had parents, and sending alternative babies when infants had died before heading overseas, a truth commission has said. CBC | World News
Read More »Angela Rayner’s so-called Workers’ Rights Bill will have lefty lawyers rubbing their hands
But it won’t do anything to help that actual working classes for whom the Deputy Prime Minister claims to speak. Daily Express :: News Feed
Read More »Human rights investigators race to document Syria killings on social media
Hundreds of people have been killed amid armed clashes in Syria, with many of those deaths filmed and published on the internet. CBC’s visual investigations team has verified three of those deaths. The practice of publicizing killings is both shocking and an important tool for researchers, an expert says. CBC | World News
Read More »Angela Rayner dealt huge blow as major ‘workers rights’ plan faces chop
The “right to switch off” policy – a key part of a Labour manifesto promise – is “dead”, according to one Government source. Daily Express :: News Feed
Read More »Germany’s refugees, minorities fear the future after far right’s breakthrough
The AfD’s historic score in German elections worries refugees and minorities, such as the 2SLGBTQ+ community, who fear rollback of their rights. CBC | World News
Read More »Iowa lawmakers vote to remove gender identity protections from civil rights code
Iowa lawmakers voted to remove gender identity protections from the state’s civil rights code Thursday despite massive protests by opponents and human rights advocates who say it could expose transgender people to discrimination in numerous areas of life. CBC | World News
Read More »At least 7,000 have died in Congo this year, country’s PM tells UN’s human rights council
Some 7,000 people have died since January in fighting in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the prime minister of the DRC told a high-level meeting of the Human Rights Council in Geneva on Monday, with combatants and civilians among the dead. CBC | World News
Read More »Indigenous rights activists protest as Australians mark anniversary of British colonization
Two historic statues were damaged in Melbourne ahead of Australia Day celebrations on Sunday, with tens of thousands of people across the country joining protests in support of Aboriginal groups who say the date is not one to cheer. CBC | World News
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