Many city councillors hope to reject the idea of a big downtown casino once and for all in Tuesday council meeting. A big downtown casino may be “essentially dead,” but many city councillors want to bury it. They hope a solid majority of the 45-member city council will do that by voting to reject a [...] Read More »
At the request of Liberal Premier Kathleen Wynne, the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Association has improved its offer to municipalities with casinos or that are willing to host new casinos. In addition to a previous revenue-sharing offer, the OLG is now adding four per cent of gaming table revenue to the money municipalities will receive. [...] Read More »
Premier Kathleen Wynne is being blamed for “chaos” at Ontario’s gambling agency that is threatening the cash-strapped province’s gaming revenue. One day after Wynne fired Paul Godfrey as chair of the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp. — resulting in the board resigning en masse — Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak warned of dire fiscal consequences due to [...] Read More »
It turned into more of a defining moment than Kathleen Wynne had really been aiming for. The Premier decided weeks ago that she wanted to replace Paul Godfrey as chair of the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp. He was too enthusiastic about a Toronto casino; too antagonistic toward the horse-racing industry; his style was not [...] Read More »
Horse racing cannot take all the credit for Thursday’s firing of Ontario Lottery and Gaming’s Paul Godfrey, but the persistent pushback by the industry over the past 14 months clearly registered with Premier Kathleen Wynne. And now there is hope that a proper arrangement can be found to sustain the game. Under Godfrey’s watch the [...] Read More »
GUELPH — Sweeping changes at the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation could be an indication of better things to come for the beleaguered horse-racing industry. On Thursday the provincial government fired Paul Godfrey as chair of the OLG and the rest of the board quit in support. The industry feels these moves are another sign [...] Read More »
Over the past several months, The Agendahas discussed the fear that tens of thousands of Ontario jobs in the horse racing and horse breeding industry were set to disappear in the wake of Ontario Lottery and Gaming (OLG)’s modernization strategy. At issue was the termination of the Slots At Racetracks Program (SARP), which had pumped hundreds of millions [...] Read More »
Sue Leslie, President of the Ontario Horse Racing Industry Association (OHRIA), issued the following statement regarding the departure Paul Godfrey and the OLG Board of Directors: “Ontario’s horse racing and breeding industry has been reeling since March 2012 when the Government of Ontario announced the cancellation of the Slots at Racetracks Program. Our industry’s concerns [...] Read More »
At racetracks and the few remaining breeding farms around this province, thousands of hard-working individuals who breed and race horses for a living can be excused for at least humming like a Munchkin: Ding Dong, The Witch is Dead. The not unexpected news that Paul Godfrey has been firedby Kathleen Wynne as chair of Ontario Lottery [...] Read More »
The following is a statement by Ontario PC MPP Monte McNaughton responding to significant resignations at the OLG following the collapse of the Liberals casino modernization plan (QUEEN’S PARK, ONTARIO) “This evening we have confirmation that the McGuinty-Wynne casino modernization plan can be added to the long list of Liberal government disasters joining Ornge, E-Health [...] Read More »
Ontario’s gambling expansion, which is crucial to the Liberal government balancing the books without raising taxes, is in disarray after Paul Godfrey’s removal from the helm of province’s gaming agency. Godfrey, president and CEO of Postmedia newspapers, was let go as chair of the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation by Premier Kathleen Wynne’s government late Thursday. That [...] Read More »
Ontario’s gambling expansion, which is crucial to the Liberal government balancing the books without raising taxes, is in disarray after Paul Godfrey’s removal from the helm of the province’s gaming agency. Godfrey, president and CEO of Postmedia newspapers, was let go as chair of the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation by Premier Kathleen Wynne’s government [...] Read More »
