Canada News - Page 66

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.

News Brief: The Manitoba government plans to spend millions of dollars on new video lottery terminals loaded with 'responsible gaming' software.

News Brief: Total handle on Thoroughbred racing in the United States and Canada increased by only 0.9% in 2003, according to the National Thoroughbred Racing Association and Equibase.

News Brief: Manitoba Premier Gary Doer says instead of looking for big profits, the prime aim of the casinos should be to create jobs and help people get off welfare.

News Brief: A former Hospital nurse fired for abusing sick leave to pay off gambling bills has been given a chance to get her job back.

News Brief: The future of a new downtown Baccarat Casino remains in doubt because the two city councillors who forced the company to redraft its original plan don't like the new design.

News Brief: The Alberta Liquor and Gaming Commission decided to buy the terminals that simulated horse racing for bettors back from casinos.

News Brief: Canada's only riverboat casino is headed for operations on dry land if its New Westminster owners get their wish.

News Brief: Even before the first episode of Survivor was even televised this season, more than 15 people from the Vancouver, British Columbia, area placed bets with an offshore bookie on contestant Sandra Diaz-Twine.

News Brief: Manitoba's gaming minister is sending signals he may bow to pressure from bar owners and allow them to operate video lottery terminals on Sundays.

News Brief: Canada's Prairie provinces have become hotbeds of gambling addiction, according to a study that found almost one in 10 gamblers in Saskatchewan and Manitoba have some type of problem with games of chance.

ews Brief: Workers at Casino Niagara in Niagara Falls, Ont., have voted against joining a union by a 59 percent margin, but the Canadian Auto Workers called the election tainted and vowed to contest it.

News Brief: Slot machines can probably save the Hastings race track, an Alberta gambling expert says. But there is a price to pay.

News Brief: After a Vancouver city council vote on Tuesday night, installing slots at the Hastings Park racetrack is still on hold.

International News Brief: The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has warned that more than 15 call centres are targeting the UK with a new scam offering to forward winnings from the Canadian Lottery in return for a fee.

News Brief: Vancouver City council opened the doors for slot machines in the city yesterday by narrowly passing a motion to hold a public hearing to allow slots at a casino at the Plaza of Nations.

News Brief: Bill Chu, founder of the Multicultural Coalition Against Gambling Expansion, sees slot machines as the most guilty corrupters.

News Brief: A Qubec man has opened up a new cashless casino café where the only jackpot comes from the satisfaction players get from knowing their chips and tokens cost them nothing more than the coffee or hamburger on the cafe's menu.