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Jump to full article: Vancouver (BC) Sun (ca), 2008-08-19
Author: Canwest News Service
Intro: Two Calgary gambling companies want the province to close a smoking-ban loophole that permits gamblers to light up at first nation casinos.
Gamehost Income Fund, which owns the Deerfoot Inn and Casino, says it made nearly a million dollars less in the second quarter of 2008 -- a slide of more than five per cent compared to last year.
Sam Switzer, who owns the Elbow River Casino, estimates his profits are down by at least 25 per cent. . . .
After Alberta's smoking ban took effect, both the Tsuu T'ina Nation, which opened the $40-million Grey Eagle Casino last December, and the Stoney Nakoda Nation, which launched the $60-million Nakoda Entertainment Resort in the spring, invoked federal bylaw exemptions for native lands.
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