Canada News - Page 34

News Brief: Scientists at the University of Guelph have created an artificial casino, aimed at giving researchers more insight into gambling behaviour.

News Brief: While a new First Nations casino on the city's west edge broke ranks yesterday on a province-wide smoking ban, some other Calgary gambling haunts said they hadn't seen business drop.

News brief: Slot machines and blackjack tables aren't usually associated with Christmas, but Ontario's government-operated casinos will be open Dec. 25., a day most other businesses are closed.

News brief: Casino Windsor's 3,000 employees have been very generous this season, raising funds and donating their time to those less fortunate.

News brief: Ontario Provincial Police have laid charges relating to an alleged multi-million dollar lottery prize insider win, the force announced Tuesday.

A ranking of the largest casinos in the world as well as what fills up these spacious gaming floors.

Cyber World Group on the Kahnawake Mohawk reserve has pleaded guilty in Quebec to charges of illegal gambling.

News Brief: Innisfil, Ontario, council worries a plan by Simcoe County and Ramara Township could impact slot machine revenues at Georgian Downs.

News Brief: A big horse-racing and slot-machine development in Belleville, Ontario, is on track after Baymount Inc. lined up financing for construction of the new Quinte Exhibition and Raceway.

News Brief: Ambitions among New Brunswick First Nations groups to build a casino independent of government will likely meet with litigation as the province defends its legal high ground on gaming issues, experts contend.

Mansionpoker.com announces sponsorship of the 3rd Annual B.C. Poker Championships.

News Brief: A three-peat lotto win investigated by the Atlantic Lottery Corp. has been cleared for a Fredericton convenience store clerk.

News Brief: The New Brunswick government is eliminating about 25 percent of the video lottery terminals currently operating in the province.

News Brief: Lottery tickets should be hidden in retail shops on P.E.I. just like tobacco products, says government house leader Robert Vessey.

News Brief: Pathological gamblers are almost four times more likely than the average Canadian to try to kill themselves, concludes a new study that adds to the growing health-related controversy around the government-run casino industry.

News Brief: The province of Ontario is discriminating against a northern aboriginal charitable casino by not allowing it to offer card tables, NDP Leader Howard Hampton said.

News Brief: Another $1 million plus has entered the city hall's revenue stream from Western Fair Raceway's slots business in London, Ontario.

News Brief: The Charlottetown racino will be open for business this Sunday, but P.E.I. Treasurer Wes Sheridan says there will be no more Sunday openings until at least next year.

News Brief: A pipeline worker from Hinton, Alta., got more than a thrill from her mystery novel when she found the lotto ticket she was using as a bookmark won her nearly $9 million.

News Brief: A Queen's Bench justice has dismissed a multi-million-dollar lawsuit brought against the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations and the provincial government.