{"id":2220449,"date":"2026-01-03T00:15:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T00:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2220449"},"modified":"2026-01-03T00:15:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T00:15:25","slug":"why-is-great-canadian-entertainment-suddenly-offloading-most-of-its-b-c-casino-assets-cdc-gaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/why-is-great-canadian-entertainment-suddenly-offloading-most-of-its-b-c-casino-assets-cdc-gaming\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is Great Canadian Entertainment suddenly offloading most of its B.C. casino assets? \u2014 CDC Gaming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>\nFriday, January 2, 2026 7:07 PM<\/p>\n<div class=\"ahFull offsiteImage\">\n<div class=\"ahImage\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"align-right attribution\">\n<p><span>Image aggregated from Vancouver Sun.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div class=\"grid-x authorShare\">\n<div class=\"small-12 medium-8 grid-x\">\n<ul class=\"authors\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"authorIm\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/cdcgaming.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Generic-Author.jpg\"\/><\/div>\n<p><span id=\"author\">Derrick Penner, Vancouver Sun<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<div class=\"small-12 medium-4 grid-x align-middle share\">\n<div class=\"ns-buttons ns-inline ns-no-print\">\n<p>Email, LinkedIn, and more<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div id=\"CDCart\">\n<p>Great Canadian Entertainment, one of Canada\u2019s largest gaming and entertainment companies, will be reduced to a presence of just two properties in B.C. after a recently announced agreement to sell its casino operation in Coquitlam to the Snuneymuxw First Nation.<\/p>\n<p>Founded in B.C. more than 40 years ago, the company, then known as the Great Canadian Gaming Corp., started by operating a couple of casinos in Vancouver and Richmond, then grew into a gambling juggernaut that spanned the country with casinos in Ontario, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.<\/p>\n<p>But since June 2024, the company has either sold or announced the sale of seven of its nine casino properties in B.C. to First Nations, representing a dramatic and swift offloading of assets in the province.<\/p>\n<div class=\"cdcgaboba-content-placement-after-3rd-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: center;margin-bottom: 1em;\" id=\"cdcgaboba-2198736660\">\n<div data-cdcgaboba-trackid=\"74715\" data-cdcgaboba-trackbid=\"1\" data-cdcgaboba-redirect=\"1\" class=\"cdcgaboba-target\" id=\"cdcgaboba-1378698935\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-bid=\"1\" data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/cdcgaming.com\/out\/74715\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"notrack\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Vector Solutions web 251010\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdcgaming.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Vector-Solutions-web-251010.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdcgaming.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Vector-Solutions-web-251010.jpg 720w, https:\/\/cdcgaming.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Vector-Solutions-web-251010-375x93.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" class=\"no-lazyload\" width=\"720\" height=\"178\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><input class=\"fooboxshare_post_id\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"125604\"\/>\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source cdcgaming.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, January 2, 2026 7:07 PM Image aggregated from Vancouver Sun. 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