{"id":20451,"date":"2017-07-25T09:00:43","date_gmt":"2017-07-25T13:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=20451"},"modified":"2017-07-25T10:56:48","modified_gmt":"2017-07-25T14:56:48","slug":"niagara-falls-receives-nearly-8-million-from-olg-in-first-quarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/25\/niagara-falls-receives-nearly-8-million-from-olg-in-first-quarter\/","title":{"rendered":"Niagara Falls receives nearly $8 million from OLG in first quarter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.niagarathisweek.com\/news-story\/7468728-niagara-falls-receives-nearly-8-million-from-olg-in-first-quarter\/\">Niagara This Week<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The city is set to surpass the $100-million mark in revenues derived from hosting two OLG casinos.<\/p>\n<p>Niagara Falls received a first-quarter payment of $7.8 million from the OLG as a part of its hosting agreement for Casino Niagara and Fallsview Casino Resort. The payment brings the total non-tax gaming revenue paid to the city to $98.9 million since Casino Niagara first opened its doors in 1996.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOLG gaming revenue provide essential funding to host communities, which offers greater ability to invest in infrastructure projects as well as important local programs and services that benefit families,\u201d said Charles Sousa, Ontario\u2019s minister of finance. \u201cThese funds directly benefit Ontario\u2019s critical public services such as health care and education, and local development.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Niagara This Week: The city is set to surpass the $100-million mark in revenues derived from hosting two OLG casinos. Niagara Falls received a first-quarter payment of $7.8 million from the OLG as a part of its hosting agreement for Casino Niagara and Fallsview Casino Resort. The payment brings the total non-tax gaming revenue&#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":[522,9218,151,9220,41,451,523,846,521,4757],"class_list":["post-20451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-casinos-and-gaming","category-niagara-falls-news","category-niagara-falls-ontario-2","tag-casino-niagara","tag-charles-sousa","tag-fallsview-casino-resort","tag-minister-of-finance","tag-niagara-falls","tag-niagara-this-week","tag-olg","tag-olgc","tag-ontario-lottery-and-gaming","tag-revenue"],"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\/20451","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=20451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20452,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20451\/revisions\/20452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}