More VLTs could be coming as Manitoba Liquor & Lotteries reviews nearly 30 proposals – CBC

Jan 26, 2026

Province ordered pause on new gaming operations lifted in 2023, but no new VLTs OK’d since

Manitoba Liquor & Lotteries is weighing the first expansion of VLTs in the province in at least eight years.

Gerry Sul, the Crown corporation’s CEO, told a legislative committee last week Liquor & Lotteries has “accumulated almost 30 requests … to pursue additional VLTs” since the former Progressive Conservative government paused gaming expansion in 2018.

Sul said Liquor & Lotteries couldn’t pursue those applications for new video lottery terminals because of the suspension on gaming expansion.

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