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ews Brief: Construction on a controversial $27-million First Nation casino-hotel project west of Calgary can proceed after a judge granted an injunction preventing protesters from interfering further.

News Brief: Edward Lerat is suing the Saskatchewan Indian Gaming Authority and the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations Inc. for firing him when he was SIGA's chief executive officer.

News Brief: Both the Osoyoos Indian Band and Rocky Mountain Turf Club from Lethbridge, Alta. are working on applications to the B.C. Lottery Corporation for two distinct gaming facilities for the town of Osoyoos.

News Brief: The New Brunswick government says it will hold a plebiscite next year on whether video gambling machines should be banned.

ews Brief: It’s a full house when it comes to casinos in Calgary and no further gambling dens will be approved for the foreseeable future, says Alberta Gaming Minister Gordon Graydon.

News Brief: Slots and steaks are beating horses by a furlong in the race to pad the bottom line at Ontario racetrack.

News Brief: Manitoba Lotteries has laid-off 16 casino investigators in an effort to save money.

News Brief: Casino Nova Scotia is in the middle of a $20 million renovations which includes improved security, new VLT machines and a new poker room.

News Brief: Trustees with the Calgary Catholic School District will debate on Wednesday the issue of raising funds through gambling, a practice the city's bishop has called morally problematic.

News Brief: The Saskatchewan government will soon allow charitable organizations to raise extra money by holding poker tournaments and gaming nights.

Art Frank, former President and CEO of Casino Rama, has been named President of Niagara Casinos by the board of directors of Falls Management Company.

News Brief: Aboriginal protesters took their fight on the road Wednesday, setting up an information picket at the Brantford Casino, claiming the site as theirs.

Casino City CEO Michael Corfman is finally ready to put his stunning loss at the Global Interactive Gaming Summit and Expo (GIGSE) Velcro Drag Races behind him, vowing, “Just wait until next year.”

News Brief: Wednesday is the last day for smokers to light up at Canadian casinos, then business could light up on the American side of the U.S.-Canada border.

College Poker Championship top finalists not only walked away with a more secure college future, but they also enriched the lives of the less fortunate by donating $1,000 each to the charity of their choice.

Record numbers of I-gaming industry members participated in the annual Global Interactive Gaming Summit and Expo (GIGSE) May 16-18 at the Palais de Congres in Montreal.

Lawrence Lessig opened the eighth annual Global Interactive Gaming Summit and Expo (GIGSE) last week with an appeal to the Internet gambling industry to convince government officials to regulate online gaming.

News Brief: The Mohawks of Kahnawake are considering participating in a London share offering that would raise money for an international network of computer centres to serve the online gambling industry and other e-businesses.

News Brief: The government agencies responsible for gaming and lotteries in the province are warning the public to beware of phoney letters suggesting they've hit the jackpot in a Manitoba lottery.

In October the World Poker Tour will offer a look at who else might be Canadian stars-in-the-making when the Tour inaugurates its first stop north of the border at the Niagara Fallsview Casino Resort.