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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.

Time is running out to claim a LOTTARIO jackpot for a ticket sold one year ago in Georgetown, Ontario.

News Brief: He's 16, maybe he smokes cigarettes or drinks a bit too much. He uses his lunch money to buy scratch tickets at the dépanneur, or skips school because he owes somebody money after losing at cards.

News Brief: A once-prominent businesswoman who faces fraud and theft charges in this southwestern Ontario city has been arrested at Las Vegas’ Aladdin Hotel and Casino where she was working.

News Brief: A man serving 32 years in a Montreal prison has been charged with taking part in the 1999 robbery of an armoured truck guard outside the Palace Casino at West Edmonton Mall.

News Brief: Burnaby, British Columbia, and Gateway Casinos hope has proposed a 600 slot casino.

News Brief: Manitoba Lotteries Corp. has asked a number of banks and credit unions to come up with proposals for installing automated teller machines in the city's casinos.

News Brief: Manitoba’s decision to go ahead with advertising that promotes gambling, discussions about expanding gambling hours and a market study to look at options for new casinos has alarmed some critics.

News Brief: Casino Windsor has laid off 100 employees amid a dwindling customer base and plunging revenues.