Ontario News - Page 24

News Brief: The opening of the Niagara Fallsview Casino Resort, set for June 10, is expected to have long-ranging impact on the tourism and hospitality trades in both Southern Ontario and the Buffalo Niagara region.

News Brief: The strike at Casino Windsor went through a third day with no sign that negotiations might resume any time soon.

News Brief: A push by Toronto to gain a larger share of the projected $286-million in gross slots revenue from Woodbine racetrack is expected to fail.

News Brief: With angry Casino Windsor workers bracing themselves for a long strike and no new talks scheduled, some downtown merchants are worried U.S. customers who stay away will be hard to lure back.

ews Brief: A Canadian holding a winning CAD$30 million lottery ticket, waited a nearly a year to claim his windfall because he didn't want to do anything rash.

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.