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Tonight's Lotto Super 7 draw is worth a big $10 million.

News Brief: Two women have filed a complaint with the B.C. Lottery Corp. claiming they were part of a winning employee pool but have been cut out of the $14.5 million prize money by the nine winners.

News Brief: The bitter dispute over a casino development on aboriginal land west of the city may soon be played out in a Calgary courtroom.

News Brief: 89-year-old Canadian couple who won a $7.5 million lottery jackpot plan to keep living in their retirement home and perhaps splurge on a new pair of nylons for her and a Lincoln car for him.

News Brief; The chief of the Roseau River First Nation says his band will not open a casino or gaming centre on an urban reserve it plans to establish in Winnipeg.

News Brief: The first casino in Niagara Falls, Ontario, has been reinvented primarily to attract the local population, leaving the international appeal to the billion-dollar Niagara Fallsview Casino Resort.

News Brief: A Manitoba native reserve is set to open a new gambling hall that is smoker-friendly.

A study in the August issue of Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research compares craving between pathological gamblers and alcoholics, correlating craving with personality.

News Brief: Critics say broadcasters should close a loophole that allows on-line poker rooms to advertise on Canadian television.

News Brief: An anti-gambling group will hold vigil outside the new entertainment centre at the Charlottetown Driving Park when it opens to the public Thursday morning.

News Brief: The number of slot machines in and around Calgary will skyrocket by 80 per cent and push the government's gambling revenue from the area to almost half a billion dollars a year, if three planned casinos are awarded licences to operate.

News Brief: A top Stoney administrator said the construction of a massive casino and hotel complex will go ahead despite the protests of locals who lay claim to the land.

News Brief: With the number of video lottery terminals at the Charlottetown Driving Park set to increase this week, there are calls for Prince Edward Island government to better advertise its treatment program for gambling addiction.

Extreme Poker Ltd. reports that its television program, "The Great Canadian Poker Tournament’ has entered into negotiations to produce ‘The Great Canadian Poker Tournament, British Columbia Edition,’ to be held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Tonight's Lotto Super 7 draw is worth a big $17 million.

Time is running out to claim a prize worth $250,000 for an Encore - Lotto Super 7 ticket sold one year ago in Northern Ontario.

The Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe, who proudly own and operate three casinos throughout Minnesota, host Cajun Fest 2005 Thursday, August 18 through Sunday, August 21.

News Brief: New Brunswick's Tobique First Nation is seeking more than $262,000 in damages from a group of dissidents who took over the reserve's casino complex in June.

A group of investors has abandoned plans to launch a Boston-to-Nova Scotia ferry service this summer, although they still hope to begin the trips in May.

News Brief: You'll have to be 19 to bet at the new racino at the Charlottetown Driving Park, but critics see the increased age limit as doing little to stop addictive gambling.