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News Brief: The public will have to wait until 8:30pm tonight to get a first-hand look at the casino's $429-million makeover.

News Brief: American gamblers, who are expected to make up 80 per cent of the visitors to Caesars Windsor, have started cutting back this year after spending more in 2007 than the year before.

News Brief: A $3.5-billion proposed class-action lawsuit against the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporatio has been launched on behalf of thousands of addicted gamblers who allege they asked to be barred from Ontario's casinos, but were still allowed in.

News Brief: The chiefs of the Stoney Nakoda First Nation cut a red ribbon Tuesday to open Alberta's newest casino, hoping it will bring economic and social benefits to a reserve with 80 per cent unemployment.

Fallsview Casino Resort will be hosting productions of 'Twist and Shout: The Smash Hit Sixties Show' and 'Country Classics: Treasures From The Attic' in September.

Century Casinos, Inc. reports that its Century Casino & Hotel in Edmonton, Canada, will host the 1st Annual Celebrity Poker Tournament in support of the MS Society of Alberta on June 14, 2008.

News Brief: Saskatchewan's liquor and gaming minister, Dan D'Autremont, is in Nova Scotia this week, gauging the impact of that province's nation-leading efforts to cut video lottery terminals

News Brief: Dakota leaders in southwest Manitoba have decided to set their own course on gambling, saying they're fed up with the slow progress of casino plans in the hands of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs.

Approximately 500 B.C. Government and Service Employees' Union members employed by Lake City Casinos have a new ratified contract.

PokerTek, Inc. has installed an additional six PokerPro electronic Texas Hold’em devices at Loto-Quebec’s Ludoplex Quebec property in Quebec City.

News Brief: Vernon city council has proposed limiting the number of slot machines within the city to 300 despite Lake City planning for 400 machines in its Anderson Way outlet, which is currently under construction.

News Brief: By saying she hopes to see Casino Rama roll along for many years to come, the new executive director of Ontario Lottery and Gaming has lifted clouds of doubt hanging over the facility for years.

News Brief: Vancouver casino operators have pumped millions of dollars lately into the newest entertainment options possible as they scramble to attract hard-to-please patrons who want to flit from one option to another over the course of an evening.

News Brief: Vancouver is about to enter the bingo-hall wars that have swept the rest of British Columbia.

News Brief: More than 275 casino workers took buyouts offered by Niagara Fallsview Casino Resort and Casino Niagara.

News Brief: An RCMP probe into a southern Ontario drug trafficking ring has exposed a loophole in the province's casino system that police fear criminals are exploiting in a bid to launder the proceeds of crime.

News Brief: By southern Ontario standards, it's kind of out of the way, but that doesn't keep the Great Blue Heron Charity Casino on the Scucog First Nation from being popular.

News Brief: With few clues, it is difficult to imagine what form the Magnetic Hill casino will take when it opens in 2010.

Sonco Gaming New Brunswick Ltd. has won the jackpot in the bid to build the province's first casino.

Fallsview Casino Resort announced today the World Rock Symphony Orchestra will join the list of big names appearing in the resort's Avalon Theatre this summer.