British Columbia’s provincial gambling monopoly has approved a new brick-and-mortar casino but let’s hope this one is a little less uptight about sharing badly needed medical gear in an emergency.
Last week, the British Columbia Lottery Corporation (BCLC) announced that it had selected the city of Victoria on Vancouver Island as the site of the province’s latest casino. The provincial capital beat out four other jurisdictions that had expressed interest in hosting a casino.
Victoria is already home to the Great Canadian Gaming Corporation‘s View Royal Casino, which BCLC insists will remain the region’s “primary” facility while the scope of the new venue will have to “suit the market.” BCLC has yet to select which company will get to run the new boutique casino.
Meanwhile, across the Strait of Georgia in Vancouver, Paragon Gaming’s Edgewater Casino has been called out in the press for not coming to the aid of an unconscious man, allegedly because the man wasn’t a customer.