Calgary Casino Workers End Strike

CALGARY, Alberta â As reported by the CBC News: “A six-week strike by Casino Calgary workers is over, after employees voted 73 per cent in favour of returning to work.

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Mon, November 7th, 2005

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    1959: Wayne Newton performs in Vegas for the first time, despite the fact that he is still too young to enter a casino.
  • By the 1370s, playing cards had reached Europe in a form that is recognizable today, with a pack consisting of 52 cards with suits of swords, polo-sticks, cups and coins.
  • Casino gambling, including Indian gaming, is legal in 27 states and most of the casinos have been built in the last 5 years according to "America's Gambling Fever", U. S. News and World Report, 15 Jan 1996
  • The most significant forms of illegal gambling in the United States are numbers, betting with bookmakers or bookies, and sports pools or sports cards.