Gambling / Gaming, Citizens & Elimination of VLT's, ACOA Funding & More

Citizens’ Group Aims for Elimination of VLTs

List of links at canada.com to information on gameovervlts.com

Tuesday April 12, 2005: Game over VLT's via Global News, June 13, 05

Next November the province will pull the plug on 800 VLTs...and slowly begin to retire two hundred others. That's simply not enough for the people behind "game-over-vlts-dot-com." The new website was launched today by a group of citizens dedicated to the complete elimination of VLTs. Their website includes an online petition, a scorecard of where local MLAs stand on the issue.

And, most compellingly, a series of personal accounts from VLT addicts . Steve McClusky is one of the people featured on the site...he's from Coldbrook but he was in Halifax for today's launch.

Citizens’ Group Aims for Elimination of VLTs

Social Costs of Gambling
Note: Some of the latest research links, you must scroll down. e.g. Statistics Canada
THE TOP TEN MYTHS


ACOA: What do taxpayers get?

ACOA Atlantic Innovation Fund Round II -- Follow the money.

ACOA: $$$ to Commercial Organizations

I have omitted any of
the "Non-Commercial Organizations", but it might be productive to investigate them.


Search:

University College of Cape Breton –
Petroleum Applications of Wireless Systems (PAWS) 5,600,000
Centre for Nuclear Energy Research Inc. – Develop Instrumentation for Metal Corrosion Prevention 4,000,000
University of New Brunswick – Beyond Kyoto: Atlantic sustainable Power R&D Initiatives 1,000,000
CNG International Marine Institute – Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) Centre of Excellence (CoE) 4,000,000
University College of Cape Breton – Petroleum Applications of Wireless Systems (PAWS) 5,600,000

[. . . . ] New Brunswick: Commercial Organizations

Proponent Name and Project Description Approved Funding
Apex Industries Inc. – High Velocity Machining of Monolithic Structures 5,500,000
Flakeboard Company Limited – Resin Application System 2,800,000
Innovatia Inc. – Development of Learner-Centric eLearning Product and Service 2,400,000
Spielo Manufacturing Incorporated – Mercury Project to build iLink product 1,900,000

[Check whether this is related: http://www.lotteryinsider.com/vol30/no4.htm#08 -- Camelot Optimises UK's Mobile Phone Lottery with Mercury -- Mercury Interactive Corporation (NASDAQ: MERQ) -- search: "socially responsible"]

Whitehill Technologies Inc. – Applied Development Tool for Industry specific web based portals 2,800,000
Commercial Total 15,400,000 [. . . . ]


Newfoundland and Labrador: Commercial Organizations

Proponent Name and Project Description Approved Funding
Baader-Canpolar Inc. – Multi-spectral Machine Vision Automatic Food Inspection 2,900,000
CHC Composites Inc. Composites Insertion Program - Sikorsky 3,700,000
Natural Newfoundland Nutraceutical Inc. – Natural NL Nutraceutical Product Development/Commercialization Centre 3,900,000
Rutter Technologies Inc. – Advanced Marine Technology Initiative (AMTI) 1,400,000
International Communications and Navigation Ltd. – Research/Development of Integrated Shipboard Info System 1,000,000
Commercial Total 12,900,000 [. . . . ]



Nova Scotia: Commercial Organizations

Proponent Name and Project Description Approved Funding
Abridean Inc. – Abridean Wireless 2,100,000
Acadian Seaplants Limited – Develop extracts from marine plants for Agrifood Industry 1,500,000
Composites Atlantic Limited - Development of composite struts for aeronautics 700,000
Diaphonics Inc. – Voice Biometric Speaker Identification System 2,700,000
Immuno Vaccine Technologies Inc. – New Peptide-Based Vaccines 3,800,000
Martec Limited – Chinook – Advanced Tools to Evaluate Explosives/Gas Dynamics 2,400,000
Oxford Frozen Foods Limited – Environmental Technology And Precision Agriculture Initiative 1,600,000
Scotian Halibut Limited – Develop Certified Halibut Broodstock 2,700,000
Sepracor Canada Limited – Develop Manufacturing Process for Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient 2,700,000
Techlink International Entertainment Limited – Dataceptor on a Chip System 2,700,000
Navitrak International Corporation – Airborne Real Time Geographic Information system 2,100,000
Commercial Total 25,000,000 [. . . . ]

Prince Edward Island: Commercial Organizations

Proponent Name and Project Description Approved Funding
Atlantis BioActives Corporation – Development of New Pharmaceutical Products 4,000,000
ChitoXanSys Limited – BioChelation Applications Development For Surface Activated Crustacean Shell 1,600,000
Diagnostic Chemicals Limited – Development/Commercialization New Reagents/Methods – PEGylation of Biomolecules 3,000,000
Commercial Total 8,600,000

Who owns the research, infomation, or product? Do taxpayers have a share? Does any other country benefit? Is any of this money repaid? Forgiveable loans? Grants?




Background and Related List of Articles -- if you have not read it already.

Search: Techlink , Spielo -- and more in

Gambling and Assorted Connections of Potential Interest June 24, 2004

* Our Government, Gambling/"Gaming", ACOA, Biometric Identification and Associated Material

* $8.2 MILLION FOR CAPE BRETON-BASED ATLANTIC INNOVATION FUND PROJECTS

* ACOA: Note "new economy", "interactive entertainment" -- Does this ring any bells?

* Membertou First Nations Reserve and Techlink Entertainment Agree to Partner In Long Term Strategic Plan

* Innovative Gaming Technology Successfully Field Tested

* Techlink Entertainment is a Canadian corporation that develops a line of innovative gaming solutions consisting of video lottery, central system, and Internet products.

* Performer I video lottery terminal

* One-time anonymous biometric enrollment process.

* Cape Breton Growth Fund invests $ 4.8 million in local companies

* TECHLINK PREPARES PRODUCTS FOR FURTHER TESTING & DEMONSTRATIONS

* Proceedings of the MITACS Quebec Interchange, Graduate Student Presentations

* Atlantic Canada Delegation goes to New York [. . . . ]

Our Government, Your Tax Dollars, Gambling/"Gaming", Regional Development Agencies, ACOA, Biometric Identification and Associated Material [Search: Atlantic Lottery Cooperation ]

[. . . . ] Techlink Entertainment recently partnered with international gaming giant Intralot [. . . . ]

Intralot and note that a Maritime company, Spielo is listed and mention is made of its 'online lottery'. [. . . . ]

Performer I video lottery terminal

[. . . . ] Extensive biometric research and development . . . . biometric finger scan

[. . . . ] Enterprise Cape Breton Corporation . . . . National Research Council’s Industrial Research Assistance Program (IRAP)

[. . . . ] interactive data mining application. [. . . . ]

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