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News brief: The Canadian bookkeeper embezzled more than $1.2 million and lost it gambling on slot machines.

Canada's most popular poker player outlasted a field of 689 and took home $371,910.

News brief: The economic downturn is hurting Alberta's gambling industry.

International news brief: Program looks to cure addiction to video games, gambling and the Internet.

News brief: The students' union at Cape Breton University is endorsing an internet site that offers Canadian students the chance to win free tuition by playing poker.

News brief: P.E.I.'s new gaming strategy includes making it illegal for retailers to sell lottery tickets to minors.

News brief: Ontario Provincial Police have arrested a Windsor woman whom they accuse of stealing a $3.5-million lottery ticket from her husband with the help of her daughter.

News Brief: Cheating gang hit more than a dozen casinos in U.S., Canada.

News Brief: For years, the Great Blue Heron Charity Casino in Port Perry, Ont., had a simple policy when it came to cleaning the casino's bathrooms – male employees cleaned the men's rooms and female staff the women's.

News Brief: Security employees at the Montreal Casino were locked out by management last night during a four-hour protest in front of the casino's administrative offices.

News Brief: Reducing operating hours and staffing levels at the responsible gambling resource centre at Caesars Windsor will actually provide better service to casino patrons seeking help managing their gambling habits, the chief executive officer of the Responsible Gambling Council says.

News Brief: Faced with slumping profits, two Calgary gaming companies want the province to close a loophole in the smoking ban that permits gamblers to light up on First Nation casinos.

News Brief: An agreement that sees the equivalent of the provincial liquor tax collected at the Dakota Dunes Casino and then remitted to the Whitecap Dakota First Nation could be a harbinger of things to come in more of Saskatchewan's First Nations casinos.

News Brief: A gleaming new casino festooned with big-screen TVs, a show lounge and 600 slot machines opens at 9 a.m. Friday at Hastings Racecourse in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Fallsview Casino Resort announced today that award-winning R&B singer/songwriter Ashanti will perform one show only in the resort's Avalon Theatre on Saturday, October 11.

News Brief: The Addiction Foundation of Manitoba's latest Manitoba Gambling and Problem Gambling report, released Aug. 7, suggested women were just as likely to gamble as men in the province.

News Brief: All 25 employees of the GM dealership in Sundridge, Ontario hit the jackpot last night, winning $22.5 million on a shared ticket.

Famed Music City songwriter and producer Jeffrey Steele will perform two solo shows at Fallsview Casino in November as part of the resort's fall concert line-up.

News Brief: A tentative agreement has been reached to end a strike by more than 800 workers at Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp. casinos in Toronto, Brantford and Sudbury.

News Brief: Saskatchewan's government-owned casinos continue to be big money-makers for the province, generating net income of $43.8 million in the 2007-08 fiscal year.