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Ontario’s OLG rolling out online gaming in 2012
Eager for a “reliable source of revenue,” the Ontario government is introducing legalized Internet gaming. Expected to launch in 2012, the provincially run gaming site could ultimately offer everything...
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Rod Phillips to take over at OLG
TORONTO — The Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp. announced Thursday the appointment of Rod Phillips as its new president and chief executive officer. Phillips, who worked as chief of staff to former...
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Herbie Fund helps child with two holes in his heart
One-year-old Amanuel Derbe was born with two holes in his heart. He couldn’t eat much, he slept all the time and rarely smiled. Amanuel’s condition was equally strenuous for his mother, Yenenesh, who...
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Christie Blatchford returns to the National Post
Christie Blatchford is coming back to the National Post. The columnist, feature writer and award-winning author was one of the founding staffers of the Post at its launch in 1998. Her hard-hitting,...
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Toronto city councillors mull bid for 2024 Olympics
Talk of resuscitating Toronto’s Olympic dreams with a possible bid for the 2024 Summer Games won early favour among some city councillors on Tuesday. “Clearly, it’s something that we want to certainly...
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MGM wants casino on Toronto’s waterfront
Mayor Rob Ford raised Exhibition Place as a more attractive option for the casino resort that the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation wants to bring to the Toronto-area, as talk shifted away from...
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Downtown casino a ‘once-in-a-generation’ opportunity: OLG chair
Toronto will lose out on a “once-in-a-generation” opportunity if it rejects building a new casino and entertainment complex in the city core, OLG chair Paul Godfrey warned Friday. His pitch to the...
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Casino could be a cash cow for Toronto, or it could ruin the city, meeting hears
Casinos could pour jobs and cash into downtown Toronto or turn the city into an Atlantic City-esque wasteland, according to duelling deputations heard at a packed Wednesday night meeting of the Toronto...
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Board of health urges Toronto to reject casino in nearly unanimous vote as...
Monday marked the latest round in Toronto’s casino tug-of-war as the president of Caesars Entertainment amped up his pitch for a new gambling facility, while the city’s board of health formalized its...
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‘This isn’t just a casino or a slot box’: OLG President Paul Godfrey claims...
Paul Godfrey realizes not everyone is a gambler, but neither is everyone a fan of art, opera or sports. That doesn’t mean galleries, theatres and stadiums shouldn’t exist, he told a business crowd at...
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RioCan CEO rails against downtown Toronto casino
The CEO of RioCan, Canada’s largest real estate investment trust, has come out against plans for a downtown Toronto casino — despite RioCan’s board chairman being Paul Godfrey, the pro-casino chairman...
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Ottawa and Niagara Falls revolt over rumours of special treatment for Toronto...
Embittered by reports that Toronto will get a sweeter deal on its casino than anywhere else in the province, Ontario mayors rose up in revolt Friday against the perceived favouritism of the Ontario...
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Scott Stinson: There is no moral argument for the status quo on Casinos
COMMENT Suppose that the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp. did not have a monopoly on gambling-related products in the province but on, say, bookshops. Or — getting crazy here — alcohol. Now suppose...
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Board resigns en masse after Paul Godfrey ousted as chair of lottery corporation
Paul Godfrey was ousted as chairman of the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation on Thursday, prompting the board of the agency shepherding an overhaul of its operations to resign en masse. The...
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Council formally kills possibility of a Toronto casino
Spectators burst out cheering Tuesday as city council voted overwhelmingly to reject a new casino in Toronto and to oppose expanded gaming facilities at Woodbine Racetrack. The 38-6 vote ended a...
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Paul Godfrey takes on co-chair job of Toronto’s biggest PC fundraiser
Paul Godfrey, president and chief executive of Postmedia Network, is one of three new co-chairs of the Ontario PC party’s Toronto Leader’s Dinner. Mr. Godfrey, formerly the head of the Toronto Blue...
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Articles that Full Comment editors feel are worth your time: David Hockney, the famed British artist, offers an intriguing perspective on the revolution in media and technology in the Financial Times....
View ArticleChris Selley: Think Sun News has been orphaned? Try liberated
In the wake of Monday’s blockbuster announcement that Postmedia will purchase all of Quebecor’s English-language print media properties, one of the biggest questions is: What of Sun News Network, not...
View ArticleFull Pundit: Pilots, politicians prepare for war
The politics of war While the opposition parties in Ottawa seem to be budging somewhat from their hardline positions against raining Canadian hellfire on ISIS, Postmedia’s Andrew Coyne doesn’t see them...
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Q&A: Postmedia Network Corp. CEO Paul Godfrey discusses Quebecor Media Inc...
Postmedia Network Corp. chief executive Paul Godfrey is about to become Canada’s top newspaper baron. With the Competition Bureau announcing it won’t stand in the way of Postmedia’s proposed...
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