properties.

The bid: The latest official entry into the Toronto casino sweepstakes is stressing that its resort would complement, not cannibalize, local hotels and other tourist-reliant businesses.

Woodbine Entertainment Group

The player: Operator of Woodbine race track and 3,000 slot machines in Rexdale. Employs 2,300 full- and part-time employees. Partner in the stalled Woodbine Live! entertainment-retail complex.

The bid: Woodbine is stressing that it is locally owned, already a gambling site and can easily expand into a full casino. Says it expects OLG to consider more than possible gambling revenues for the province when it makes a decision on a GTA casino.

Others

Toronto-based billionaires Larry Tanenbaum of MLSE and Gerald Schwartz of buyout firm Onex Corp. have expressed interest in investing in a Toronto casino. Many expect Nevada-based Wynn Resorts and possibly Malaysia-basedafter the monastery's destruction, he replied "We've seen no specific evidence of a specific targeting toward Christians."

Muslim Attacks on Christian Churches

Iraq: The Islamic State blew up the country's oldest Christian monastery, St. Elijah's. The 27,000-square-foot building had stood near Mosul for 14 centuries. For several years, prior to 2009, U.S. soldiers protected and sometimes used the monastery as a chapel. "Our Christian history in Mosul is being barbarically leveled," reported a Roman Catholic priest in Irbil. "We see it as an attempt to expel us from Iraq, [and] eliminating and finishing our existence in this land." Yet, when Col. Steve Warren, spokesman for America's military efforts against ISIS, was asked about the status of Christians in Iraq soon after the monastery's destruction, he replied, "We've seen no specific