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City to reconsider slot machines
Municipality to study pros and cons of allowing gambling BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com
The City of North Vancouver is considering an end to its 20-year prohibition on gambling.
Council voted 5-2 Monday night to revive the debate and send it to a meeting of council’s policy committee for further study. Council had a request more than a year ago
from Playtime Gaming to reconsider its gambling ban as part of a pitch to include slot machines at the redesigned Shipyards district, though there was no mention at Monday’s meeting of where a potential “community gaming centre” would go. Unlike casinos, a community gaming centres
feature only electronic gambling machines like slots and they are forced to close overnight. The vote followed a lengthy report on the socio-economic impacts of gambling on municipalities, including revenues casinos and gaming centres contribute to their host cities and the risk of social ills,
crime and addiction they bring. In this case, Playtime would be looking to install 250-300 electronic gaming machines, which would generate between $1.75 million and $2.1 million annually to be spent at council’s discretion. The staff report drew heavily on a study
commissioned by the province into the impacts brought about by three new casinos built in Surrey, Langley and Vancouver.The conclusion was something of a split pot. “The reality is that these three new venues have neither caused widespread See Bookham page 9
WV family sues funeral home JANE SEYD jseyd@nsnews.com
AWestVancouver family is suing a local funeral home, its U.S.-based parent company and St. Paul’s Hospital for psychological suffering after their mother’s body was picked up from the morgue without their permission and went ‘missing’ for several days. Holly Haliburton, a feisty West Vancouver woman, died peacefully at St. Paul’s two years ago at 95. But what happened next was anything but peaceful, said Jim Haliburton, Holly’s son, who launched the lawsuit with his sister Jacqueline Haliburton this week. Instead, the family alleges, a North Vancouver funeral home “snatched” their mother’s body without any authorization, then tried to it cover up. “I can’t even be sure to this date the ashes I have
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