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News Brief: Casino Windsor will begin offering sports betting next Friday -- marking the first time Metro Detroiters will have access to live sports wagering.

News Brief: Eight dollar store employees in Toronto, Ont. and a Kitchener woman became sudden millionaires of a $43-million Lotto 6/49 jackpot yesterday.

OLG Casino Point Edward is inviting the media and public to a weekend of celebration beginning with a ceremonial ribbon-cutting this Friday to show off its brand new look.

News Brief: Ontario's Casino Windsor says it is laying off 297 unionized and 32 non-union staff due to a slowdown.

Baymount Incorporated and its wholly-owned subsidiary Belleville Racetrack Development Corporation have received Preliminary Approval for a License to Operate a Racetrack from

News Brief: Local municipal officials haven't had direct contact with backers of what the city's mayor calls a ‘fantasy’ casino plan for Woodstock, Ontario.

News Brief: Nearly a month into Ontario's smoking ban, Windsor bingo hall operators say many Michigan customers are staying home.

ews Brief: A new indoor smoking ban that became law late last month across the Niagara River in Ontario now makes the Seneca casino the only gambling hall in Niagara Falls that allows patrons to light up.

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.