Casino Ajax and Great Blue Heron Casino open for business Friday

Eleven Ontario casinos – including Casino Ajax and Great Blue Heron Casino on Scugog Island – will be opening their doors to gamblers on Friday when the Province moves to Step 2 in its re-opening plans.

All eleven casinos are operated by the Great Canadian Gaming Corporation, which is based in Toronto.

Great Canadian also announced that the still under-construction Pickering Casino Resort will open “in the near future,” with the rest of the resort opening in 2022.

Under the Province’s current health and safety framework, the Company’s Ontario properties will reopen with 50 per cent gaming capacity limits and honour physical distancing requirements.

“I’m very excited that the province has reached this milestone, and that Great Canadian is in a position to have thousands of team members return to work,” said Terrance Doyle, the Company’s Interim Chief  Executive Officer.

Connecticut-based Mohegan Gaming and Entertainment, which operates Casino Niagara and Fallsview Casino in Niagara Falls, have not announced when they will re-open.

Speculation is Mohegan is waiting for Ontario to hit Step Four and reach 100 per cent capacity, the same capacities their American gaming properties are running at right now, before they open.