Ontario News - Page 23

One of the world's most popular and enduring tourist attraction centres is about to experience a major revival, with the opening on June 8th of the new Niagara Fallsview Casino Resort.

News Brief: Canadian harness track Flamboro Downs has been fined $75,244 and placed on 12 months' probation for violating security rules by the Ontario Racing Commission.

News Brief: Casino Windsor is challenging a pay equity order awarding some female employees raises and retroactive pay dating back to 1994, a casino spokesman said Monday.

News Brief: A pickpocket stole $7,500 from a Canadian gambler's inside pocket while he played baccarat at Casino Rama, near Orillia, Ontario.

News Brief: Stanley Sadinsky has been ousted from his political appointment as chairman of the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation after serving less than seven months of a three-year term.

News Brief: North Bay mayor, Vic Fedeli, says that though he is opposed to a casino initiative for his city, he thinks the city ought to share in gaming revenues of a neighboring community.

News Brief: Ontario should lift the moratorium on casino referendums so the issue can be settled locally by the community, according to Callander Mayor Bill Brazeau.

ews Brief: An Ontario man won the province's second-largest slot machine jackpot early Saturday, after taking a break from playing cards.

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: 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: Ontario's cash-strapped Liberal government is looking at potential areas for new casinos in the province.

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.

News Brief: Help will be one call away for those hooked up to Canada's first government-backed phone counselling program for problem gamblers.

Just one week after an Ontario player won a $20 million Lotto Super 7 jackpot, tonight's jackpot is $25 million .

Based on second quarter statistics compiled by the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp., attendance and revenues at both Casino Niagara in Niagara Falls and slot machine operations at Fort Erie Racetrack were down.

Time is running out to claim a LOTTARIO jackpot for a ticket sold one year ago in Georgetown, Ontario.

News Brief: A once-prominent businesswoman who faces fraud and theft charges in this southwestern Ontario city has been arrested at Las Vegas’ Aladdin Hotel and Casino where she was working.

News Brief: Casino Windsor has laid off 100 employees amid a dwindling customer base and plunging revenues.

ews Brief: Workers at Casino Niagara in Niagara Falls, Ont., have voted against joining a union by a 59 percent margin, but the Canadian Auto Workers called the election tainted and vowed to contest it.

News Brief: Casino Windsor could face sanctions from the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario after a 12-year-old boy was nabbed trying his luck on the gaming floor.