Canada News - Page 67

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.

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.