Ontario News - Page 16

News Brief: Niagara Fallsview Casino Resort should use its Avalon ballroom and hotel to help bring gaming revenue back up at that casino and Casino Niagara, says Ontario Lottery and Gaming spokeswoman Teresa Roncon.

News Brief: About 25,000 construction workers across Ontario have walked off the job, causing delays for Windsor casino and other large projects

News Brief: Ontario will investigate the claims of scam artist who says he cheated Casino Windsor out of thousands of dollars over a 10-year period, an Alcohol and Gaming Commission spokesman said on Wednesday.

News Brief: Falls Management Co., is considering adding a 5,000-seat entertainment centre to the Niagara Fallsview Casino Resort, according to the casino spokesman.

News Brief: Bettors and Detroit Red Wings fans packed Casino Windsor's 8-month-old sports betting venue earlier this week.

News Brief: Ontario Lottery & Gaming is reporting a strong finish to an otherwise so-so year at Casino Sault Ste. Marie.

ews Brief: The city council will decide later this month whether it wants to pursue the idea of establishing a casino in Cornwall, Ontario.

ews Brief: Unionized casino workers voted overwhelmingly to accept a 14-month contract from the OLG Casino Brantford Saturday, voting 85 per cent in favour of the deal.

News Brief: A last-minute tentative agreement reached minutes before the walkout deadline prevent OLG Brantford from closing its doors last night.

News Brief: OLG Brantford casino workers are poised to walk off the job if a first contract isn’t settled by 11:59 tonight.

ews Brief: A 37-year-old Fonthill woman got a seven-figure surprise at Fallsview Casino Resort on Monday.

News Brief: A Scarborough maintenance worker has won $18 million in the Lotto 6/49 jackpot.

Fallsview Casino Resort releases the June 2007 concert line-up for the resort's Avalon Ballroom Theatre.

News Brief: Gambling can be a meaningful recreational activity for older adults, according to a recent study on gambling among Ontario's rural seniors by Prof. Joan Norris of Wilfrid Laurier University.

The Ontario Problem Gambling Research Centre will study the increased incidence of problem gambling among Parkinson's Disease patients who follow a common drug regimen to cope with the disease.

Sisters had their dream turned into a reality at the Great Blue Heron Charity Casino when they won the $4.9 million Megabucks slot jackpot.

News Brief: Legends Sports Lounge, Casino Windsor's sports betting venue, which allows legal bets on the biggest gambling event of the year, is braced for a big boost from the Super Bowl.

ews Brief: Critics are chastising the Ontario government's decision to allow smoking rooms to be built inside provincially owned casinos but not bars and restaurants.

News Brief: An Ottawa graduate student found a novel way to climb out from under $30,000 debt: he went to the Bahamas and won a $1 million poker tournament.

News Brief: In the late 1980s, the brothers won about $90,000 at Toronto's Woodbine race track and decided to put that money toward more sports betting.