Dwight Duncan

After putting thousands of jobs in the horse racing sector in jeopardy, the McGuinty government must meet immediately with the sector and consult on ways to support jobs, says NDP MPP Taras Natyshak (...

Toronto City Council Executive Committee determined on Monday, May 14 that further discussion surrounding casino expansion in the city will be pushed back until roughly October. The move flushed out T...

Ed James was recently recognized at the leading owner at Grand River Raceway for 2011, but after today James might just be heralded as the leading owner in all of Canadian horse racing after paying fo...

It is safe to say that 89-year-old horse owner Leo Thibodeau knows a thing or two about the economy. He lived through The Great Depression. He's thrived in the Canadian trucking business. He's owned r...

"If the slots were removed from Woodbine you would see the end of Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto."

Continuing to attract major attention in the mainstream media, the crisis in Ontario's horse-racing industry was front and centre this past weekend. The Toronto Star trotted out a lengthy feature, wit...

The letter below was sent on Friday (May 11) afternoon from Sue Leslie, President of the Ontario Horse Racing Industry Association to the Premier of Ontario responding to a series of inaccurate commen...

After being compared to jailed investor Bernie Madoff in Thursday's (May 10) Guelph Mercury, Ontario Finance Minister and Deputy Premier Dwight Duncan issued a public reply

"I'll tell you what's disappointing: you got Dalton McGuinty's group and Dwight Duncan suggesting that when Windsor Raceway shut down, most of these individuals (customers) would go and spend their mo...

After trying to increase exposure to the product by attracting "synergy-type businesses", Hiawatha Horse Park's owner Jim Henderson is now forced back to the drawing board after being blindsided by th...

The Town of Innisfil has passed a resolution asking the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp. to keep slot machines at Georgian Downs. Also, it has been reported that the town has also recommended that the...

For months, the Liberal government has referred to Ontario horse racing's share of the slots-at-racetracks partnership as a "subsidy". One MPP, who is featured in the May issue of Trot Magazine, wonde...