{"id":19181,"date":"2017-03-07T09:00:24","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T14:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=19181"},"modified":"2017-03-07T07:30:32","modified_gmt":"2017-03-07T12:30:32","slug":"casino-operator-controversy-in-niagara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/07\/casino-operator-controversy-in-niagara\/","title":{"rendered":"Casino operator controversy in Niagara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stthomastimesjournal.com\/2017\/03\/02\/casino-operator-controversy-in-niagara\">St Thomas Times Journal<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Niagara\u2019s mayor and regional chairman have asked the province to scrap plans to select new operators for the region\u2019s two casinos.<\/p>\n<p>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 request for proposal process for a new service provider for Casino Niagara and Fallsview Casino.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The letter calls on the province instead to start over \u2014 to reissue a bid to include four objectives for Niagara Falls originally proposed when Casino Niagara opened in 1996. Those objectives included job creation; economic development for the city and region; a significant and lasting contribution to the economic benefits from tourism; and maximizing provincial revenue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaximizing provincial revenue cannot be the only determining factor,\u201d states the Feb. 21 letter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--Ads1--><\/p>\n<p>See also:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/2017\/03\/02\/city-region-want-casino-process-terminated\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a> &#8211; Falls, Region want casino process terminated<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the St Thomas Times Journal: Niagara\u2019s mayor and regional chairman have asked the province to scrap plans to select new operators for the region\u2019s 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&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[21,2,601],"tags":[12049,522,9218,790,157,603,12050,3317,10319,2345,4757,4062,10019],"class_list":["post-19181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-casinos-and-gaming","category-niagara-falls-news","category-niagara-falls-ontario-2","tag-alan-caslin","tag-casino-niagara","tag-charles-sousa","tag-economic-development","tag-fallsview-casino","tag-jim-diodati","tag-job-creation","tag-mayor","tag-operator","tag-regional-chairman","tag-revenue","tag-rfp","tag-st-thomas-times-journal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19182,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19181\/revisions\/19182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}