Canada News - Page 65

News Brief: North Bay mayor, Vic Fedeli, says that though he is opposed to a casino initiative for his city, he thinks the city ought to share in gaming revenues of a neighboring community.

News Brief: Prince George stands to lose almost $1 million a year in gaming revenues unless it can convince the B.C. Lottery Corporation to re-designate Casino Hollywood a ‘destination casino’ when it moves this summer.

News Brief: Ontario should lift the moratorium on casino referendums so the issue can be settled locally by the community, according to Callander Mayor Bill Brazeau.

News Brief: Manitoba Conservatives are calling on the province to stop plans for a native casino north of Winnipeg unless it bans smoking.

News Brief: The Manitoba government may be asking smokers to butt out but operators of a proposed aboriginal-run casino near Grand Beach say they won't.

News Brief: A native-run casino north of Winnipeg is one step closer to reality.

ews Brief: An Ontario man won the province's second-largest slot machine jackpot early Saturday, after taking a break from playing cards.

News Brief: The Saskatchewan Indian Gaming Authority has released its third-quarter results on, showing a net income increase over last year of nearly 24 per cent.

ews Brief: Manitoba Lotteries Corporation is removing nearly all of its controversial Keno monitors from convenience stories, malls and laundromats in Winnipeg.

News Brief: A day after Woodbine Entertainment Group announced it plans to sell Hastings Park in Vancouver, British Columbia, Great Canadian Casinos indicated it might be a potential suitor.

ews Brief: The Nova Scotia government has reached an out-of-court settlement with the former head of its alcohol and gaming authority.

News Brief: The province is considering the expansion of Casino Windsor and hopes to have enough information to make a decision in six months, says Minister of Economic Development and Trade Joseph Cordiano.

News Brief: The lag in the time it is taking the Vancouver City Council to decide on expanded gaming for Hastings Park has prompted Woodbine Entertainment Group to offer the track it purchased only two years ago for sale.

News Brief: The Atlantic Lottery Corporation wants to introduce Internet gaming to Maritime gamblers.

News Brief: A seemingly innocent remark 12 days ago by Economic Development Minister Joe Cordiano about the potential for more casinos in Ontario has thrown communities across the province into a tizzy.

News Brief: Even though Loto-Québec's casino arm spent far more to reward patrons than to prevent compulsive gambling last year, it still lags behind the competition in customer loyalty programs, a spokesperson says.

The Trident group of top-end online casinos is among the first four operations awarded the e-Commerce and Online Gaming Regulation and Assurance seal of quality this week.

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.