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Photo: RNZ Leading All Blacks and Black Ferns are at loggerheads with New Zealand Rugby over the pending deal with US investment firm Silver Lake. New Zealand Rugby says the $465 million dollar deal is "transformational" while the players are concerned about potential cultural misappropriation. Do they have a point or are they holding the governing body to ransom? Join Brenton Vannisselroy on Extra Time as he discusses the impasse with former Black Fern Louisa Wall, RNZ rugby reporter Joe Port...

We have all lost so much this past year but also potentially gained things that we never expected.

Kristen Wiig has confessed that coffee helps her to get through the day with her baby twins, who she welcomed early last year.

Uefa Champions League predictions, fixtures and results – 9-10 March © Provided by Extra Time Media The first four Uefa Champions League quarter-finalists will be decided this week, with Cristiano Ronaldo’s Juventus and Lionel Messi’s Barcelona both on the back foot. World football’s golden pair may yet joust again in the latter stages of this season’s UCL, but they’ll have to do it the hard way after both their sides fell to first leg defeats three weeks ago. Barcelona play Paris...

Details of QPRs upcoming Community Day, 2021.

More evidence that UBIs work The report is back on another Universal Basic Income trial, this time in the USA. And as with the others, it shows that this policy works: After getting $500 per month for two years without rules on how to spend it, 125 people in California paid off debt, got full-time jobs and reported lower rates of anxiety and depression, according to a study released Wednesday.[…] When the program started in February 2019, 28% of the people slated to get the free money had ful...

Idiot/Savant at No Right Turn wrote on Thursday: An irrigation company’s decision to relinquish its consent to take extra water from the Rangitata River when in high flow has been hailed as a “gift to New Zealand” by anglers.Rangitata Diversion Race Management Ltd (RDRML) was awarded the consent to take an extra 10 cumecs in water when the river was flowing 110 cumecs or higher by an Environment Canterbury-appointed independent panel in 2018. However, appeals by Fish and Game, Ngāi Tahu ...

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 10:16 am, February 28th, 2021 - 136 comments Auckland is back into level three lockdown.  The check points around the city have again been put in place and big events, including the round the bays run have been cancelled. The caution is understandable.  The latest two cases, a son and his mother, were potentially exposed to the UK variant B117 thorough a family member who was a casu...

Sabine 3.2 maybe it is the duty of the Government to look after people that cant work rather then the businesses? Maybe the Government a year into covid should have set up a webpage solely for wage -replacements and covid – isolation/quarantine payments that are so easy to use that even someone with lacking literacy skills, or less then best english skills can get onto it, fill out the forms and receive a payment if the criteria applies. In saying that, after April there...

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