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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.

News Brief: Saskatchewan's gaming minister released details of an imposed settlement Monday to resolve stalled negotiations between the Saskatchewan Indian Gaming Authority and Prairieland Park.

The staff of the Calgary Casino have voted 75% in favour of a strike and are expected to serve strike notice today and put up picket lines Friday.

News Brief: A judge will decide who gets a share of a $14.5-million lottery jackpot in British Columbia.

News Brief: Nova Scotia is not doing enough to keep problem gamblers away from the province's two casinos, critics said yesterday as they responded to the story of a man who lost $500,000 to slot machines over three years.

News Brief: A $14.5-million Lotto 6/49 jackpot may be the first in B.C.'s history to be divvied up in a courtroom if a dispute between its winners and claimants is not settled by today, says a B.C. Lottery Corporation spokeswoman.

News Brief: Paul Burrell lost his life savings at the Casino Nova Scotia and is now suing the casino for not enforcing their problem gambler rules.

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.