News of the day: Hockey Night in Canada gone from CBC as partnership with Rogers Sportsnet ends

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Published Jun 16, 2026  •  2 minute read

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It’s Tuesday, June 16. Here are the top stories we’re following today:

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Hockey Night in Canada gone from CBC as partnership with Rogers Sportsnet ends

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The days of Hockey Night In Canada as we know it are over. In a joint statement, Sportsnet and CBC announced on Tuesday that the latter will no longer carry NHL broadcasts, meaning the traditional Saturday night home to the iconic franchise on the public broadcaster is no more.

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Toronto Maple Leafs goalie Joseph Woll talks to reporters during the end of season media availability. Ernest Doroszuk/Toronto Sun

Why the Maple Leafs were comfortable in trading Joseph Woll to the Flyers

John Chayka, taking a break from his coaching search, made his first significant trade as Maple Leafs general manager, shipping goaltender Joseph Woll to the Philadelphia Flyers. Also going to the Flyers is veteran depth defenceman Simon Benoit.

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U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks as he attends a bilateral meeting with UAE’s President during the G7 summit, in Evian, eastern France, on June 16, 2026. Photo by Mandel NGAN /AFP via Getty Images

KINSELLA: U.S.-Iran ‘deal’ is an unmitigated fiasco

Iran is getting billions in reparations – far, far more than it received under Barack Obama’s ill-conceived Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) in 2015. Its homicidal regime is intact, dominated by the IRGC, which is a designated terrorist entity in Canada and the West. The Iranian regime is now even more hardline than before.

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A GoFundMe has been for Peter and Elizabeth Bartsch who were travelling with a family in a van when it collided with an SUV on Friday night north of Kitchener, Ont., killing five children from another family. Photo by HANDOUT /GoFundMe

Youngest brother in deadly van crash near Kitchener out of hospital; 2nd GoFundMe set up

One of the Ontario family members injured in last Friday’s deadly car crash north of Kitchener that took the lives of five other children — aged four to 12 — has been released from hospital. Family member Nancy Doerksen, the organizer of a GoFundMe for family expenses that has now exceeded in raising more than $250,000, has updated readers of that page.

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Toronto Police Chief Myron Demkiw. Photo by Ernest Doroszuk /TORONTO SUN FILES

WARMINGTON: Toronto cops say numerous shootings part of ‘complex’ guns-for-hire scheme

Through modern phone encryption technology, Toronto Police now acknowledge a murky criminal network somewhere in the world paying young people to create terror in the city by shooting up political and religious targets. And Toronto Police Chief Myron Demkiw has now publicly said this deadly ‘shooting-for-hire’ enterprise that led to the death of Const. Marc Pinozzotto not only recruited Toronto youth to fire their guns but required them to record the crimes on video as proof they did it.

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