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9/6/2008: Canada’s Gambling Watch Network’s weekly e-mailed Newsletter
Volume 10 Issue 004 CWE August 25, 2008
OUR INTERNET DISRUPTION
When one of my family members told me that she had a good telephone connection with ROGERS at a reasonable price, I thought it would be good for us to follow her example and I ordered a new connection with that company. At that time it was unknown to me that our Internet provider ISP has its internet connection through Bell Canada and that my telephone connection with Primus also was dependent on Bell Canada. When the Rogers’ technician arrived at my house to make the connection, he got to work immediately, and only after he had broken my ( to me unknown) connection with Bell he told me that I lost my Internet connection. I did all that could be done to reconnect the Internet, but after a busy day of trying to change things, I could only apply for a telephone connection at Bell Canada and wait for a full week to get connected to the Internet again.
I am sure that you will realize how difficult a week I have had. There was no way for me to connect with the many people that get our Newsletters and explain what our problem was. This morning my Internet connection was re-connected, and what follows this explanation is the short Newsletter I made ready day by day before the interruption. Now my first effort will be to gather the news items I have missed during the past week, and to compose the next Newsletter based on whatever I find. If one of you happened to download a news item, please share it with me to save some of my time!
Greetings from Johannes Deviet, News Gatherer and Newsletter Editor of Canada’s Gambling Watch Network’s Newsletter.
Finance
According to the StatsCan’s monthly report, trips to Canada by U.S. visitors continue to fall and nowhere has that been felt more than in communities such as Windsor where the retail, hospitality and gaming industries continue to rely heavily on same-day visitors from across the border
is a part of an 8/19/08 Windsor Star item; Caesars Windsor brings back U.S. visitors. But in the same issue another article is titled Casino bucks travel trend. It reports that Windsor casino, since it changed to ‘Caesars Windsor’ attracts more U.S.A. and Canadian people who chose to waste their money on casino gambling.
Young millionaire launches tour is an interesting Calgary Sun item that might many young lottery tickets buyers cause to spend their money in better ways.(archived) Press Release: 23 year old millionaire launches 50 city book tour
Lottery
Debut cancer lottery’s sales hit doldrums is a pessimistic Ottawa Citizen 8/18/08 look at the Ottawa Regional Cancer Foundation’s Answer to Cancer fundraising lotto.
Horseracing
Ninth time lucky for equestrian an item in the 8/19/08 Windsor Star, tells that Equestrian Ian Millar, when competing in his ninth Olympics and tying the world record for most Olympic appearances , won his first Olympic medal, silver in the team event. The Ottawa Citizen of that date writes that this win throws a spotlight on the Ottawa region which is called a ‘powerhouse’ in the $12.5B horse industry.
Western Canada
Reserve casino urged to butt out an 8/18/08 Calgary Herald item writing that two Calgary gaming companies want the province to close a loophole in the smoking ban that permits gamblers to light up on First Nation casinos, appears a day later in many other Western Canada papers.
British Columbia
In an 8/17/08 Columbian (Washington State) article we read that Vancouver doesn’t accept a US Gambling study and that the USA Federal Government could make a yes-no decision in the coming months, but it faces no statutory deadline.
We don’t know if that will make any difference to Vancouver.
Nanaimo mayor has mixed feelings over expanding casino, an 8/18/08 Daily News item, reports that Mayor Gary Korpan is torn about the proposed expansion and relocation of the Great Canadian Casino to a site next to the Port of Nanaimo Centre. We read that in 1998 he called government’s promotion of gambling “acquiescing to evil.” Can’t he see that his province’s piracy evil has grown much bigger since then?
Ontario
See the Finance section for some news on an Ontario Casino that changed its name.
Gamblers sought for study, an 8/19/08 Windsor Star article, writes that University of Windsor Psychology professor Alan Scoboria is looking for participants to join a study entitled Thoughts About Gambling. It will be based on interviews with people who have not experienced financial or emotional difficulties due to their gambling in the past year.
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