Canada News - Page 61

News Brief: Teamsters heavyweight James P. Hoffa will be in Orillia today to help organize some of the more than 3,000 workers at Casino Rama

News Brief: The Nova Scotia government may add the number of gambling addicts who kill themselves to its annual gaming statistics.

ews Brief: Nova Scotia's finance minister admits allowing aboriginal bands to set up more video lottery terminals defeats the purpose of a moratorium on the gambling devices.

News Brief: With its workers on strike and its doors closed, Casino Windsor is losing about $1.6 million in revenues a day and that's affecting the Ontario government's coffers, Ontario Labour Minister Chris Bentley said today.

News Brief: A group that deals with problem gambling in Saskatchewan has created a brochure to warn people about the dangers of internet gambling.

News Brief: Phil Heard has resigned as chief executive officer of Hastings Entertainment Inc., recently purchased by Great Canadian Gaming Corp.

ews Brief: Ontario's finance minister is opposed to a scheme to tax lottery and gambling winnings.

News Brief: Casino Windsor could reopen Saturday if its unionized employees ratify a tentative agreement reached Wednesday evening, a spokeswoman for the casino said.

News Brief: Gamblers in Manitoba will soon be limited to playing a video lottery terminal for two hours before being forced to cash out.

ews Brief: Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty has been told to tax lottery and casino winnings to help alleviate the almost $8 billion budget deficit.

News Brief: The Saskatoon Chamber of Commerce is asking the provincial government to approve the proposed casino-resort development on the Whitecap reserve south of Saskatoon.

News Brief: The owners of Manitoba's only First Nations-run casino say they're having trouble making ends meet and are demanding the province turn over management of the gambling facility.

Tonight's Ontario’s LOTTO SUPER 7 jackpot has reached $30 million.

News Brief: Manitoba Lotteries has decided it's a gamble for employees or customers to speak anything but English at the province's two casinos.

News Brief: After sitting down to gamble with mobsters, several Toronto police officers found themselves owing huge amounts and turned to crime to pay back their debts.

Century Casinos has received notice from the Alberta Gaming and Liquor Commission that it has been selected as the only one of six applicants to move to step seven of eight steps of the casino licensing process in Edmonton, Alberta.

Canada’s Lotto Super 7 jackpot has reached $25 million.

News Brief: Enoch Cree Nation reports that the Alberta Gaming and Liquor Commission has approved the tribe’s casino proposal.

News Brief: Nynna Ionson is still waiting to hear what, if anything, her $30-million ex-husband has in store for her.

News Brief: Native protesters are continuing an occupation at the casino at the Tobique First Nation in New Brunswick.