Ontario News - Page 19

News Brief: The Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp.'s $1 billion gamble on building a second casino in Niagara Falls is paying off.

News Brief: Casino Windsor officials are bracing to lose gamblers to Detroit casinos when Ontario imposes a no-smoking ban on all public buildings next year.

News Brief: Fears that restaurants, bars and casinos will lose smokers' business were dismissed in favour of health concerns Wednesday as Ontario passed what it boasts is the ‘most aggressive anti-tobacco legislation in North America.’

Niagara Fallsview Casino Resort will launch the bustling tourist season with an outdoor party featuring record-breaking wirewalker Jay Cochrane.

Casino Rama will close its doors within six years unless Ontario's First Nation communities resolve an ongoing dispute over gaming revenues, warns Ramara Township Mayor Bill Duffy.

A Canadian Class Action lawsuit has been launched claiming that people with Parkinson's disease developed a gambling addiction as a result of their use of the drug Mirapex.

News Brief: A group opposing to the spread of legalized gambling says a casino in Ontario should repay hundreds of thousands of dollars that a woman from Hamilton stole from a children's hospital fund and lost at the casino.

Silverstar Entertainment in association with The Canadian Charities Association, presents a charity fundraising event featuring world poker tour champions.

News Brief: In the face of sobering statistics from the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation, the city’s two casinos are eager to turn the page.

News Brief: Profits at Casino Windsor continue to shrink because of increased border security, competition from Detroit casinos, the lingering repercussions from a six-week strike last year and the declining value of the Canadian dollar.

News Brief: A new poker room opens today in Casino Niagara, Niagara Fall’s original casino.

A St. Catharines contractor is $2.3 million richer after hitting a Megabucks slot machine jackpot at Niagara Fallsview Casino Resort early this morning.

News Brief: The Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp. is setting up information centres at two of the province's casinos that will be operated by independent counsellors who specialize in gambling addictions.

Time is running out to claim a prize worth $250,000 for an Encore - Lotto Super 7 ticket sold one year ago in Windsor, Ontario.

The winners of last year's Masters of Blackjack tournament returned to Niagara Fallsview Casino with a vengeance to defend their titles.

International News Brief: Casino Windsor's revenue plummeted 13.6 per cent during the three months ending Dec. 31, 2004, the third straight quarter of falling income.

ews Brief: Former Ontario premier David Peterson has been appointed to lead discussions with First Nations toward achieving a new agreement on sharing gaming revenues.

News Brief: Ontario's opposition parties lashed out Tuesday against the Liberal government's decision to spend $400 million to expand Casino Windsor.