Niagara Falls council wants ‘flawed’ casino RFP process stopped

From Niagara This Week: The city plans to explore all “available legal avenues” with the hopes of getting the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation (OLG) to halt the process of procuring a new operator for Casino Niagara and Fallsview Casino Resort. At a special council meeting on June 22, council voted unanimously in support of…

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Casino operator controversy in Niagara

From the St Thomas Times Journal: Niagara’s mayor and regional chairman have asked the province to scrap plans to select new operators for the region’s two casinos. In a letter to Finance Minister Charles Sousa, Mayor Jim Diodati and Niagara Regional Chairman Alan Caslin asked the government to terminate an ongoing request for pre-qualification and…

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Shining the light on Niagara

From the St Catharines Standard: For 54 years, Peter Gordon played to an audience of millions. The Niagara Falls resident estimates thousands of people a night – between 90,000 to 150,000 on a summer night – have been entertained by his rainbow of lights on both the Horseshoe and American Falls. “It made you feel…

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