Author: Daniel Thompson

Police in Leeds, Ontario, has probably been contacted numerous times about silly or even absurd situations but the latest 911 call was the first of its kind. A woman called the emergency line after gambling and losing all her money at the Shorelines Casino Thousand Islands. According to the police, […]

The planned strike at Ontario’s casino Caesars Windsor was narrowly averted Tuesday night when the casino management reached a last-minute agreement with Unifor Local 444 bargaining team. On Thursday, around 2,300 workers will vote on the new contract and ratify it after two months of negotiations. Employees at the Caesars […]

The upcoming casino resort in the Durham Region will be built in the city of Pickering and its developer announced on Tuesday that it is now proceeding towards municipal permitting. Ontario Gaming GTA L.P., the company behind the project, said that the currently operating Casino Ajax will relocate to the […]

The proposed hotel and casino complex in Delta, British Columbia, will most probably be reviewed this month by the city council. Councillors will need to grant a preliminary approval before the project for a CA$70 million facility planned by Gateway Casinos and Entertainment can proceed. The Delta City Council has […]

Casinos on the Las Vegas Strip are visited by millions of customers each year, but there are many gambling venues across the state that are just as generous to gamblers. A local woman from the state of Nevada won a jackpot of $1,418,848 this weekend while playing slots at a […]

The casino project in Sudbury is starting to take shape after the city’s planning committee approved the rezoning applications for a casino, an arena and a parking lot this week. Despite the strong opposition by the local business, the Kingsway Entertainment District was given the green light and pending council […]

Canadian company Gateway Casinos and Entertainment announced on Wednesday it is investing CA$36 million in a brand new casino facility in Chatham. Cascades Casino Chatham, expected to open in mid-2019, will replace the existing Dresden slots facility and will create up to 200 jobs in the area. At a presentation […]

A Canadian teenager who bought her first lottery ticket to celebrate her 18th birthday took home the jackpot prize in the Gagnant a Vie lottery. Charlie Lagarde chose the CA$1,000 weekly lifetime annuity over the option to be paid CA$1 million. Lagarde, who lives in the Monteregie area southeast of […]

There has been a sharp decline in the suspicious transactions seen across British Columbia casinos, attorney general David Eby said Tuesday. It appears the anti-money laundering measures taken by the province in January already give results, as the potentially crime-related transactions have decreased from CA$20 million in July 2015 to […]

After a four-hour public hearing and a lot of controversy over the past few months, Sudbury’s planning committee on Monday approved a rezoning application that authorizes the building of a casino on the Kingsway. It would be part of the long-anticipated Kingsway Entertainment District, which is yet to obtain rezoning […]