GOV'T ENDS FUNDING TO RESEARCH ON GAMBLING

   The Ontario government has eliminated funding to an organization that researches problem gambling, ordering it to wind down operations by the summer.
Gambling Research Exchange Ontario was told last month that its entire $2.5 million annual budget had been cut by the province.
  The CEO of Gambling Research Exchange Ontario said the organization is disappointed it won’t be able to continue the work its done for 20 years. The knowledge and research built up over that time could be lost, said Trudy Smit Quosai.
  “Ontario has been an international leader prior to this and … people have looked to (us) as a model to minimize harm from gambling,” she said. “We’re hoping to find ways to keep the work of GREO going but we are concerned about that being lost.”