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Revolutionary online poker room PKR.com, is gearing up to break into the North American market in spring 2006.

Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty has signed an agreement-in-principle with the Ontario First Nations Limited Partnership that sets out a new partnership for sharing the economic benefits of gaming.

News Brief: The owner of a Saginaw security company has been charged in federal court with paying a $100,000 bribe to a Casino Windsor official to obtain a $2.6-million security contract.

News Brief: Efforts to attract a more mainstream clientele to British Columbia's increasingly lucrative gaming sector take another step today when construction begins on a new $100-million casino complex in New Westminster.

Security staff at one of Ontario's largest casinos have voted 92 per cent in favour of strike action if talks fail to produce a new collective agreement.

News Brief: The $1.2-billion project to revamp the Montreal Casino and move it to a working-class district was axed on Friday after a ten-month anti-casino campgain was successful

A woman from Roseville, Michigan went home $2,423,487 richer yesterday after hitting the jackpot on Casino Windsor's MegaBucks $1 progressive slot machine.

News Brief: The head of the committee that is examining whether the casino should be moved to the Peel Basin says it is too early for the Quebec government to decide to move Montreal's casino.

News Brief: The Coulombe Report, comissioned by the province to evaluate the Peel Basin Casino project, could put the plans to move the casino on the backburner, according to a report in La Presse.

News Brief: Loto-Quebec's proposal to relocate the Montreal Casino to the Southwest borough could help revitalize the area but questions remain about public security and the impact on the neighbourhood, the city of Montreal says.

News Brief: Six Nations Chief David General believes the people will have to decide whether Internet gaming is a safe bet for Canada's most populous native reserve.

News Brief: Another Texas hold'em poker tournament has been shut down by the Manitoba Gaming Control Commission.

News Brief: A day after public health officials slammed plans to move the Montreal Casino to the Peel Basin from Ile Notre Dame, the Point St. Charles community clinic yesterday asked the Quebec government to reject the project.

News Brief: Montreal's department of public health says the plan to move the Montreal Casino is unnacceptable in its current form.

News Brief: Yorkton Mayor Phil DeVos is still looking to negotiate a deal with a First Nations-controlled casino that hasn't been following the city's smoking ban.

News Brief: A Saskatoon couple is celebrating after winning Saskatchewan's second-largest lottery prize ever.

News Brief: The president of Quebec's Treasury Board says a new billion-dollar casino in Montreal's Peel Basin is still a possibility.

News Brief: A plan worth more than $20 million is in the works to move the Painted Hand Casino into a building to be constructed in the west end of Yorkton within two years.

Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation will present David Foster and Friends, a star- studded charity gala at Niagara Fallsview Casino Resort on Saturday, September 16, 2006.

News Brief: A decision on whether the Great Blue Heron Charity Casino will comply with new provincial rules and ban smoking within the Scugog Island gaming house remains unanswered