Canada News - Page 51

The Small Town Poker Tour announced today they have made visits to several sites in Canada.

News Brief: It's no safe bet that Ontario charities are getting all the proceeds they're owed from bingo halls and local raffles because the province doesn't properly oversee how they're run.

News Brief: Social activist groups across Quebec are demanding that the provincial government hold a legislature committee hearing into the construction of a casino and entertainment complex in Point St. Charles, Quebec.

ews Brief: The Nova Scotia Gaming Corporation says turning off VLTs at midnight has led to a decline in problem gambling.

ews Brief: A first-ever study of gambling prevalence in Newfoundland and Labrador has found VLT players are significantly more at risk for addiction than other gamblers.

News Brief: The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission has given cable and satellite carriers the green light to deliver gambling channel.

News Brief: A Salt Spring Island man has won the largest legal poker prize in Canada at the B.C. poker championships in Richmond, B.C.

News Brief: Alberta is pressing its luck by giving permits to so many casinos, suggests a professor with the Gambling Research Institute.

News Brief: Canadians are hopping onto charter buses to go to casinos across the border.

News Brief: Vancouver, British Columbia, had been relying on a $7.0 million windfall in revenue from the newly-opened Edgewater Casino. Instead, competition from other municipalities saw the casino pull in only $5.4 million.

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.