TVO Covers Racing Announcement March 11, 2013 On Monday, March 11, John Snobelen and Dennis Mills sat down with Steve Paikin during a webcast segment for TVO's The Agenda to discuss Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne's recent announcement pertaining ...
GCGC Reaches Tentative Lease Agreements March 09, 2013 Great Canadian Gaming Corporation (GCGC) announced Saturday that it has entered into letters of intent with the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation (OLG) for the continuation of slot operations at ...
Reactions To Wynne's Gaming Announcement March 08, 2013 After Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne promised on Friday, March 8 to incorporate Ontario horse racing into the province's gaming modernization plans, a trio of provincial racing groups and Essex MPP Ta...
More Track Deals Announced; Wynne Promises To Incorporate Horse Racing Into OLG Modernization March 08, 2013 Ontario's horse racing industry waited with bated breath on Friday, March 8 for Premier Kathleen Wynne to make her much-anticipated announcement regarding the future of racing in the province.
Snobelen: 'Change Is Never Easy' March 06, 2013 Last week, John Snobelen, member of the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs Panel, penned an opinion column discussing the panel's decisions and reasoning in relation to the transi...
MacDonald Keeps Momentum Going March 05, 2013 Four weeks removed from his well-received fundraising event at Mohawk Racetrack, Guelph PC candidate and driver Anthony MacDonald is not showing any signs of easing up on the political throttle.
Wynne Says Errors Were Made March 04, 2013 Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne was in Flamborough this past weekend when she went on the record as saying that her predecessor, Dalton McGuinty, knew that errors had been made regarding how the Ontari...
CTV Goes Off To The Races March 02, 2013 With the end of the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp.'s Slots-At-Racetracks program looming March 31, Kitchener's CTV News has taken an in-depth look at the state of Ontario's horse racing industry in ...
OHRIA To Get Aggressive? March 01, 2013 In a release issued on Friday, the Ontario Horse Racing Industry Association announced that its board of directors approved an aggressive campaign in the event that negotiations with the government fa...
NDP To Re-Introduce Anti-Modernization Motion February 28, 2013 Ontario's opposition parties have been quite vocal in giving verbal support for the province's beleaguered horse-racing industry. Front and centre in the year-long crisis have been PC MPP Monte McNaug...
An Open Letter To Premier Wynne February 28, 2013 "Premier Wynne, your transition panel is designing a model for the horse racing industry that is unsustainable and will result in an industry that is represented by three to five racetracks attached t...
No GCGC/OLG Agreement, Yet More Slots February 27, 2013 Great Canadian Gaming Corp. has yet to reach a tentative lease agreement with the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp. to house the province’s slot machines at Flamboro Downs and Georgian Downs, but it ha...