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News Brief: A new casino is opening its doors in Langley on Thursday, and city councillors are already spending the expected gaming revenues.

News Brief: A group opposing to the spread of legalized gambling says a casino in Ontario should repay hundreds of thousands of dollars that a woman from Hamilton stole from a children's hospital fund and lost at the casino.

Silverstar Entertainment in association with The Canadian Charities Association, presents a charity fundraising event featuring world poker tour champions.

News Brief: Gamblers in one Nova Scotia town have a smart new tool to help keep themselves from going wild on lottery machines.

Aureus Ventures Inc. has entered into an agreement to purchase certain companies and other assets involved in the gaming industry in British Columbia, and contemplates other countries in the European Union, in exchange for shares of the company.

News Brief: Another First Nations facility that had been smoke-free could allow smoking again – the Lac La Ronge bingo hall.

News Brief: In the face of sobering statistics from the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation, the city’s two casinos are eager to turn the page.

News Brief: Profits at Casino Windsor continue to shrink because of increased border security, competition from Detroit casinos, the lingering repercussions from a six-week strike last year and the declining value of the Canadian dollar.

News Brief: The mayor of the smoke-free city of Yorkton wants to talk to the Sakimay band about a First Nations casino's decision to allow smoking again.

News Brief: One of Nova Scotia’s own experts on problem gambling is comparing the government's new gaming strategy to a stool that doesn't work properly.

News Brief: A new poker room opens today in Casino Niagara, Niagara Fall’s original casino.

News Brief: A Nova Scotia citizens' group has launched an online campaign to get rid of all VLTs in the province.

A St. Catharines contractor is $2.3 million richer after hitting a Megabucks slot machine jackpot at Niagara Fallsview Casino Resort early this morning.

News Brief: An anti-poverty activist who finally won the right to access a documents related to suicides and attempted suicides at Quebec casinos will have to wait to see them.

News Brief: Facing the prospect of losing their lucrative video lottery terminals, Quebec bar owners are being tempted by alternative sources of revenue like a cut from drug deals on the premises.

News Brief: Nova Scotia will be eliminating 1,000 video lottery terminals, about one-third of the total in the province, Premier John Hamm said.

News Brief: The Conservative government has amended a proposed workplace smoking ban to allow people to light up in bars, casinos and bingo halls.

Palace Station security officer came across a suspicious sight Saturday morning: a car parked in a far corner of the parking lot with the rear and side windows covered with newspaper.

News Brief: The Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp. is setting up information centres at two of the province's casinos that will be operated by independent counsellors who specialize in gambling addictions.

News Brief: Net surfers looking to read up on the Ontario government are being redirected to a gambling website called Zodiac Casino.