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News Brief: New Brunswick's health minister has a three-fold interest in the province's racing industry, and supports the proposal of a Saint John racino.

Available throughout the month of February, Millionaire Life will award one player a top prize of $1 million a year for 25 consecutive years.

News Brief: The Internet and other technologies show no sign of undermining the scratch-and-win lottery business, the boss of a major ticket producer says.

ews Brief: The city of Coquitlam, British Columbia, hit the jackpot again last week with $2.3 million from Boulevard Casino.

News Brief: The Red Deer winners of nearly $14 million picked their numbers based on weather patterns in Scarborough, Ont., where the Lotto 6/49 is drawn, lotto officials say.

News Brief: Legends Sports Lounge, Casino Windsor's sports betting venue, which allows legal bets on the biggest gambling event of the year, is braced for a big boost from the Super Bowl.

News Brief: Six people have launched a complaint before the federal Competition Bureau that electronic gaming machines are designed to entice gamblers into risking too much of their money.

ews Brief: Critics are chastising the Ontario government's decision to allow smoking rooms to be built inside provincially owned casinos but not bars and restaurants.

Canada is a hotbed of great poker players and Paradise Poker is in search of the best one to crown him or her King of Canada with a $50,000 prize.

News Brief: An Ottawa graduate student found a novel way to climb out from under $30,000 debt: he went to the Bahamas and won a $1 million poker tournament.

News Brief: Construction of the casino and performing arts centre in Swift Current is to start early this year, said Steve Shaheen, spokesperson for the Saskatchewan Indian Gaming Authority.

News Brief: In the late 1980s, the brothers won about $90,000 at Toronto's Woodbine race track and decided to put that money toward more sports betting.

ews Brief: The Canada Line’s only park-and-ride facility will be owned and operated by Great Canadian Gaming Corporation after the casino operator struck a deal with transit planners.

News Brief: The Alexis Nakota Sioux First Nation's chief hopes the Eagle River Casino and Travel Plaza, will reverse the fortunes of the 900 Alexis band members.

News Brief: Casino Windsor announced this morning that in early 2008, it will be known as Caesars Windsor.

ews Brief: After three months of picketing, there's no end in sight for the strike at the Palace Casino, says a union leader.

ews Brief: Gamblers may soon be able to sip a beer or cocktail between hands at Coquitlam’s Boulevard Casino.

2006 World Series of Poker Main Event champion and Team Bodog pro Jamie Gold hosted and won the first BodogFIGHT Celebrity Poker Tournament in Vancouver, British Columbia.

News Brief: More than 180 people were banned from B.C. casinos and gaming halls last year, some for criminal reasons, the president of the B.C. Lottery Corporation told the legislature's committee on Crown corporations on Tuesday.

News Brief: A change to video lottery terminals in Newfoundland and Labrador has led to a small drop in the number of players.