Ontario News - Page 18

ews Brief: A New York-based holding company could be bucking insurmountable odds in a proposal for a Woodstock hotel-casino.

News Brief: Slots and steaks are beating horses by a furlong in the race to pad the bottom line at Ontario racetrack.

Art Frank, former President and CEO of Casino Rama, has been named President of Niagara Casinos by the board of directors of Falls Management Company.

News Brief: Aboriginal protesters took their fight on the road Wednesday, setting up an information picket at the Brantford Casino, claiming the site as theirs.

News Brief: Wednesday is the last day for smokers to light up at Canadian casinos, then business could light up on the American side of the U.S.-Canada border.

In October the World Poker Tour will offer a look at who else might be Canadian stars-in-the-making when the Tour inaugurates its first stop north of the border at the Niagara Fallsview Casino Resort.

News Brief: Ontario gamblers wagered $5.85 billion in fiscal 2004-05, an increase of $125 million from the previous year.

News Brief: Sault Ste. Marie has received $344,906 from Casino Sault Ste. Marie.

Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty has signed an agreement-in-principle with the Ontario First Nations Limited Partnership that sets out a new partnership for sharing the economic benefits of gaming.

News Brief: The owner of a Saginaw security company has been charged in federal court with paying a $100,000 bribe to a Casino Windsor official to obtain a $2.6-million security contract.

Security staff at one of Ontario's largest casinos have voted 92 per cent in favour of strike action if talks fail to produce a new collective agreement.

A woman from Roseville, Michigan went home $2,423,487 richer yesterday after hitting the jackpot on Casino Windsor's MegaBucks $1 progressive slot machine.

News Brief: Six Nations Chief David General believes the people will have to decide whether Internet gaming is a safe bet for Canada's most populous native reserve.

Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation will present David Foster and Friends, a star- studded charity gala at Niagara Fallsview Casino Resort on Saturday, September 16, 2006.

News Brief: A decision on whether the Great Blue Heron Charity Casino will comply with new provincial rules and ban smoking within the Scugog Island gaming house remains unanswered

News Brief: Another three months, another big payday for the host municipalities of the Thousand Islands Charity Casino.

News Brief: A bus crash north of Toronto has injured dozens of people, including one seriously.

Registration begins today for players to fill more than 400 seats at the Point Edward Charity Casino's Blue Water Classic Poker Event

News Brief: The man who won one of the Canada's largest lottery prizes has made a deal over temporary support for his ex-wife, who is battling to try to get half of the $30 million windfall.

News Brief: Ontario casinos spent more than $300 million on perks and comps to lure gamblers to the card tables and slot machines.