Canada News - Page 49

News Brief: The Montreal casino has given the Banque Nationale exclusive bank machine rights on the premises, and is taking a cut of the service charge.

News Brief: The provincial Liberals want significant cuts to the number of video lottery terminals.

The Kahnawake Gaming Commission and eCOGRA have agreed to work together to ensure that player protection measures are consistently applied across companies operating under their rules.

ews Brief: A six-week strike by Casino Calgary workers is over, after employees voted 73 per cent in favour of returning to work.

News Brief: People from coast to coast to coast are lining up to buy a ticket for a chance at $40 million, the biggest jackpot in Canadian history.

Prairieland Corporation's callous decision to lay-off employees at Saskatoon's Emerald Casino is an unacceptable move that breaches the spirit of the province's final report on this issue, says the president of the Saskatchewan Government and General Employees' Union.

News Brief: Construction of the new River Cree casino at the Enoch Cree Nation is smoking along but Edmonton casinos are going into nicotine fits over Enoch's smoking policy.

Brenda Otto, the Community Development Officer for Trent Hills, outlined a project this week for boosting the economy in Campbellford, Ontario.

Magna Entertainment Corp. reports the completion of the sale of its wholly owned subsidiaries that own and operate the Flamboro Downs racetrack near Hamilton, Ontario to Great Canadian Gaming Corp.

News Brief: A city councillor wants to re-open talks with Sioux Valley Dakota Nation about building a casino in Brandon, Manitoba, but the province says the possibility of such a project died years ago.

News Brief: Coquitlam's latest windfall from the Great Canadian Casino, almost $1.5 million, is the lowest it has been in two years.

News Brief: A deal is in the works between the city of Yorkton and a downtown tribal casino over the issue of smoking.

News Brief: The twin cities of Niagara Falls, N.Y., and Ontario rolled safe economic bets when respective governments authorized casino gambling.

News Brief: The people should decide whether they want a casino in downtown Brandon, Manitoba, but shouldn’t weigh their choice on the fact it would be native-owned and operated, says Mayor Dave Burgess.

News Brief: Calgary is trying to put up a roadblock to a new native casino.

News Brief: An internal government prediction that gaming revenues will sink by $250 million to $350 million annually once Ontario’s smoking ban goes into effect bodes ill for Windsor, a critic of the ban says.

News Brief: Canadian lottery corporations are preparing to assess those the impact of online gambling on their industry and the extent of government control in this area.

News Brief: The desire to accomplish something concrete in the fight against video lottery terminals is one of things keeping former Nova Scotia Liberal leader Danny Graham in public life.

News Brief: Ontario's Ministry of Health should hand over responsibility for the province's problem-gambling strategy because money is not getting to the people who need it, according to a new report.

Luck paved the way for Michael Brown, who won the top prize yesterday at the first Ultimate Poker Challenge.