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| Contact us anytime to voice your concern and or support in our efforts to remove VLT's from Nova Scotia. deblangille@eastlink.ca  (You will require Acrobat Reader to view some of the articles on this web page.) |
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This section of our website is devoted to GAME OVER VLTS.COM! press releases as well as the extensive media coverage of the issue in Nova Scotia and elsewhere. PRESS RELEASESProvince Continues to Promote Responsible Gambling - March 27, 2007 Click here to read the release VLT Free Campaign - 21 February 2007 Click here to read the release VLT Free Campaign Reaches the media Six-Person Complaint to Competition Bureau Calls for Investigation of Canadian Gambling Industry and Misleading And Deceptive Technologies Employed By Electronic Gaming Machines (EGMs), including Slots & VLTs Click here to read the release Click here for additional info about the Unbalanced Reels GameOverVLTs.com Reveals More Stories of Family Devastation as Government Sidesteps VLT Question at Gambling Conference Click here to read the release Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Story on the South Carolina Success Click here to read the report Government’s New VLT Plan Lacks Support Click here to read the report Mulgrave Road Theatre takes SPIN Citizens’ Group Aims for Elimination of VLTs STORIES IN THE MEDIABroken Promise on Gambling Suicides Click here to read the article Video Lottery Terminals Moratorium Act - Bill 177 Click here to read the article Clean up Ontario lottery corporation, critics say Click here to read the article Dave Seglins of CBC - Subliminal Messages on VLTs Click here to read the article TheGlobeandmail - Staggering losses HALIFAX — Sometimes the senselessness of it all almost rips Elaine Gabriel's guts out. It will be three years at Thanksgiving that her husband, Scott, overdosed on the painkiller OxyContin in his Dartmouth, N.S., apartment, unable to live any longer with depression driven by his addiction to video lottery terminals. Click here to read the article VLT plan falls short, says expert HALIFAX – One of the province's own experts on problem gambling is comparing the government's new gaming strategy to a stool that doesn't work properly. CBC Mainstreet interview with reformed VLT addict and one of GameOverVLTs.com’s spokepeople, Steve McClusky of Coldbrook, NS. A law professor in South Carolina is challenging Premier John Hamm's reason for not outlawing video lottery terminals. (CBC Nova Scotia - April 8/05) More on the South Carolina ban of VLTs(Associated Press, May 20, 2003) Opposing sides decry VLT verdict
(CBC Television - Nova Scotia - April 6, 2005) VLT smasher glad he's been caught
(CBC Television - Nova Scotia - May 5, 2004) Hearing it from a real life expert
(CBC Television - Nova Scotia - May 5, 2004) VLT suicide problems need to be addressed (CBC Television - Nova Scotia – May 12 , 2004)
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