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News Brief: A Calgary restaurant owner who had video lottery terminals removed from her business because they were underperforming says the provincial government has a serious gambling problem.

News Brief: Young people are twice as likely to be problem gamblers as the average B.C. resident -- and that's not good, says Surrey Coun. Penny Priddy.

News Brief: Problem gamblers are among the loudest voices in the chorus calling for a ban on video lottery terminals in Alberta.

News Brief: Ontario's cash-strapped Liberal government is looking at potential areas for new casinos in the province.

News Brief: Calgarians who want a fast-track to millionaire status have two runaway jackpots they can try to catch.

News Brief: Revenue at Ontario's border casinos in Windsor and Niagara Falls are off CAD$160 million, and racetrack slot machines are ringing up less cash.

This week's Lotto Super 7 jackpot is worth $32.5 million, the second largest in the lottery's history. So let's say you won it.

News Brief: A batch of phony letters in support of a $52-million casino/hotel project planned for Victoria, British Columbia, is unfairly overshadowing the benefits of the proposal, its developer says.

News Brief: Alberta has spent more than CAD$1 million to buy up the last 11 privately-owned gambling devices in the province.

Cirque du Soleil offered Friday to reinstate an HIV-positive gymnast after federal labor investigators found "reasonable cause" to believe the Montreal-based circus engaged in job discrimination when it fired the performer because of his condition.

News Brief: Help will be one call away for those hooked up to Canada's first government-backed phone counselling program for problem gamblers.

News Brief: A crackdown on one vice will affect another when Saskatoon's smoking control bylaw comes into effect, predicts the co-author of a 2002 study on gambling in Saskatchewan.

Just one week after an Ontario player won a $20 million Lotto Super 7 jackpot, tonight's jackpot is $25 million .

News Brief: The Manitoba government is lifting its ban on Sunday gambling at hotels, bars and lounges in what it says is an attempt to help the battered rural economy.

News Brief: In a close vote after two days of hearings, Vancouver city council has given the green light to a new casino at the Plaza of Nations.

News Brief: The Manitoba government has decided not to install bank machines at its two casinos in Winnipeg.

Based on second quarter statistics compiled by the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp., attendance and revenues at both Casino Niagara in Niagara Falls and slot machine operations at Fort Erie Racetrack were down.

News Brief: A provincewide smoking ban to be implemented later this year is expected to drain at least $50 million a year from Manitoba government lottery revenues.

News Brief: Woodbine Entertainment Group, the parent of the operator of Vancouver's Hastings Park track, announced Tuesday the launch of a Internet-based wagering system called HBIBET.com.

News Brief: Some local residents were not happy with what they learned at a open house about a casino proposed for their Vancouver neighborhood.