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Great Canadian Casino Resort Toronto may has started work in June 2023 but the country’s largest casino resort will celebrate its grand opening in May 2024. For the special occasion, Great Canadian Entertainment has invited three-time GRAMMY® Award winner Gwen Stefani and five-time CMA Male Vocalist of the Year and […]

Ontario’s market for online sports betting and gambling is once more a hot topic of discussion in the province. This time due to being mentioned in the Ontario Auditor General’s follow-up report, which said that the province little to almost no progress on the previous recommendations made by the Auditor […]

Last week, the Quebec Online Gaming Coalition which lobbies for the establishment of a regulated gaming model in the province, issued a survey on Quebecers’ iGaming habits. However, the province’s only provider of legal gaming, Loto-Québec, was far from impressed with the initiative and remarked that it has not changed […]

This week, British Columbia’s Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth announced a CA$1.4 million investment into the research of gambling-related harms and addictions. The funds will be put into the Centre for Gambling Research at the University of British Columbia, which will work on more ways to tackle the issue. It […]

Lotteries and Gaming Saskatchewan has recently sent out its charitable gaming grants to provincial groups and organizations for the second quarter of 2023-24. For Q2, approximately 750 groups and organizations in more than 200 communities across the province shared CA$2.1 million in grants, which support a wide array of charitable […]

New York’s mobile sports betting operators continue to rack up significant wagering volume in the last full week of November 2023. According to the New York State Gaming Commission, for the week ending on November 26, 2023, the nine operators posted another weekly handle above the US$500 million mark, but […]

With the winter holidays just around the corner, the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation has reminded parents and adults in Ontario to not gift lottery tickets to children. With its press release, OLG reiterates that all lottery products, including Instant tickets, are a form of gambling and should not be […]

Employees of several Winnipeg casinos in Manitoba are unhappy with their employer and are ready to go out on strike. Almost all members of Unifor Local 144 who are hired by the Manitoba Liquor & Lotteries voted in favour of protesting. These workers are now able to go out on […]

The Québec Online Gaming Coalition has recently issued a survey which studies the online gambling habits of Quebecers. It discovered that almost 3 out of 4 local players or 73% prefer privately-operated iGaming platforms when playing online casino games or wager on sports. The survey comes amidst calls for the […]

Kindred Group has most recently announced that it will be suspending its North American operations. The company operates the leading iGaming brand Unibet in Ontario and several United States territories reported that it will be leaving those markets by Q2 of 2024. This means that it will be cutting over […]