{"id":3043,"date":"2010-05-04T14:53:08","date_gmt":"2010-05-04T22:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=3043"},"modified":"2010-05-06T09:34:36","modified_gmt":"2010-05-06T17:34:36","slug":"new-brunswick-has-a-casino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/new-brunswick-has-a-casino\/","title":{"rendered":"New Brunswick has a casino"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3042\" title=\"nb_casino_100503\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/nb_casino_100503.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/nb_casino_100503.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/nb_casino_100503-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/nb_casino_100503-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/>Move over, <strong>Atlantic City<\/strong>, here come &#8220;the Maritimes.&#8221; (Quoth the Mackenzie Brothers, &#8220;Zoom in on the Maritimes, eh?&#8221;) Not to be outdone by <strong>Nova Scotia<\/strong>&#8216;s casinos or <strong>Prince Edward Island<\/strong>&#8216;s racino, <strong>New Brunswick<\/strong> has struck back with a 22-table, 500-slot casino in <strong>Moncton<\/strong>. Already, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctv.ca\/servlet\/ArticleNews\/story\/CTVNews\/20100503\/new-brunswick-casino-100503\/20100503?hub=Canada\" target=\"_blank\">dark predictions of doom are being sounded by the usual suspects<\/a>. Watching the (non-embeddable) video footage, I couldn&#8217;t helping thinking Mayor Tommy Shanks (the late <strong>John Candy<\/strong>) ought to be cutting the ribbon, with entertainment provided by lounge lizards Sammy Maudlin (<strong>Joe Flaherty<\/strong>) and Bobby &#8220;As a comic, in all seriousness&#8221; Bittman (<strong>Eugene Levy<\/strong>) &#8230; for those of you who fondly remember <em>SCTV<\/em>.<br \/>\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" codebase=\"https:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/_Gwa3dXueek&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/_Gwa3dXueek&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Move over, Atlantic City, here come &#8220;the Maritimes.&#8221; (Quoth the Mackenzie Brothers, &#8220;Zoom in on the Maritimes, eh?&#8221;) Not to be outdone by Nova Scotia&#8216;s casinos or Prince Edward Island&#8216;s racino, New Brunswick has struck back with a 22-table, 500-slot &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/new-brunswick-has-a-casino\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3043"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3043"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3065,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3043\/revisions\/3065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}