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UK Consultancy firm Procorre says the United Kingdom faces a future shortage of IT professionals in the online gaming industry as developing markets recruit for rapid expansion. According to the research, over 50 percent of online gaming job adverts targeting the UK market are recruiting for positions based in the USA and/or Canada. In contrast …
Bill Rutsey, the president and CEO of the Canadian Gaming Association, published an op-ed article in the Ottawa Citizen this week, criticising the Canadian Senate for sitting on a two-year-old bill that has wide support and would allow Canadians to place single game wagers. Rutsey clearly chose the timing for his article carefully as Super …
Does online e-cash processor Skrill (formerly Moneybookers) know something that everyone else does not? That’s the question several industry observers were asking as the news broke this week that the European-based company is to pull out of Canadian transactions with effect from January next year. Skrill, which was taken over by the private equity firm …
Playtech-owned affiliate programme Euro Partners has withdrawn from the Canadian market and will no longer provide marketing services for its brands or accept any further traffic from the country. The notification, appearing on various forums, gave little information on the reasons behind the move except for the prospect of “pending regulations” in the country. Canadian …
Thanks largely to political manouevring by conservative opponents, a Canadian bill amending gambling laws to permit single game betting has languished in the Senate for two long years despite receiving overwhelming support in the House of Commons. Bill C-290 was back in the news yet again this week as Canada’s Minister of Sport, Bal Gosal, …
The quest for single bet sports wagering, on the agenda since its introduction by Canadian MP Joe Comartin back in 2011 continues, with the measure still alive when parliament returned to work on October 16 after the summer recess. Our readers will recall that bill C-290 is designed to bring Canadian betting laws into the …
Canada’s Atlantic provinces, working through the Atlantic Lottery Corporation, will soon use the Internet to sell tickets for six games, including 6/49, Payday and Lotto Super 7, reports the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. The web-based gaming system will be the first of its kind in Canada, the publication reports, noting that the Lottery has been studying …
The news last week that UK company Featurespace has developed analytical software capable of identifying the betting patterns and behaviour of potentially problem gamblers at online casinos has been followed by similar claims from a Canadian company. Focal Research Consultants of Halifax, Nova Scotia has proved in commissions with land gambling casinos that its software …
Political observers who speculated that politicians in the Canadian Senate would see off a sports betting bill by stalling it until the body adjourned for the summer recess may have been right – this week the Senate rose without progressing Bill C-290, which sought to permit single game sports betting in Canada. The bill has …
Sports betting bill C-290 was in the Canadian spotlight again this week with gambling executives becoming increasingly impatient with an over year-long stall in the Canadian Senate despite the measure receiving overwhelming support in the House of Commons in March last year. The bill, which seeks to allow single game wagering has languished in the …
It’s been well over a year now since the Canadian House of Commons passed private member’s bill C-290, a proposal to change current restrictive sports betting laws by allowing single-game wagering. In the normal course of events the approval of the Senate would be routine, but political bickering and a busy schedule has instead created …
The long-running proposal in bill C290 pressing for changes to Canadian sports betting sailed through the House of Commons over a year ago but remains stubbornly bogged down in the Senate by upper house procrastination and long-winded opposition. Fearing that the continued delays may eventually kill off the single-game sports betting bill by the time …
In Canada, MP Joe Comartin’s bill seeking to open up Canadian sports betting by allowing single game wagering may have sailed through the Commons but the Senate has virtually killed it off through delays and general dithering. This week the senator pushing bill C-290 in the Senate, Bob Runciman, appeared to be resigned to the …
Our readers may recall Canadian MP Joe Comartin’s attempt over a year ago to modify Canadian betting laws to permit single-game sports wagering, which sailed through the Commons but is now stuck at third reading stage in the Senate. Technically, sports betting is already legal in Canada. Depending on the province, gamblers can place a …
The Finance Minister for the Canadian provincial government of Prince Edward Island (PEI), Wes Sheridan, told the local Guardian newspaper this week that efforts to push ahead with an online gambling regulatory and licensing system have stalled, and that the provincial government has lost out on millions in tax and licensing revenues as a consequence. …
Bodog Canada has said its current regionalised domain, while remaining, will redirect customers to Bodog.eu in a bid to expand “its horizons” in an international expansion strategy. A company statement said the addition of specifically Asian-oriented products including a live dealer casino offering Baccarat, Sic Bo and Dragon Tiger is imminent as it seeks to …
A new Canadian law – C-290 – which seeks to give individual provinces the right to decide whether to allow single-game sports betting appears to be bogged down in the Senate on its third and final reading into law after sailing without problems through the Commons. Earlier this week Canadian senators returned from a short …
Police spokesmen have further briefed the Canadian media on the major bust over the weekend of a Super Bowl party thrown by the Costa Rica-based online sports betting operator Platinum SB Hundreds of police officers, some heavily armed and clad in SWAT-style gear, stopped the party in a Toronto venue, making several arrests. Police spokesmen …
The Canadian media are widely reporting on a major police raid that featured armed SWAT-like officers halting an alleged internet sports betting party in Toronto over the weekend. The gathering at a Markham banquet hall Sunday night was apparently attended by thousands of Canadians enjoying the Super Bowl broadcast through large screen television and allegedly …
A significant proportion of adult Canadians support the passage of MP Joe Comartin’s Bill C-290, which would legalise single-event sports betting in Canada, the latest Ipsos Reid survey has found. The bill was first introduced in September of 2011 and was passed with the unanimous support of all parties in the House of Commons in …
The Canadian Senate is preparing for the controversial debate of private member bill C-290 which will allow for betting on single event sports games in Canada. The bill has garnered wide-spread criticism from pro and amateur sporting leagues, problem gambling specialists and politicians on its passage through the House of Commons where it passed with …
The president of the Canadian Gaming Association (CGA) has urged Senators to vote in favour of the private members bill C0290 “An Act to Amend the Criminal Code (Sports Betting) currently awaiting its third reading in the Senate. Bill Rutsey said: “We have a clear choice: either allow billions to go offshore and through illegal …
A multi-force Canadian police raid, led by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) was conducted in the Ottawa region this week on suspicions relating to an illegal online gambling operation. The two-year investigation dubbed Project Amethyst has seen the arrest of twenty-one people in total who were allegedly involved in an operation that saw millions …
Up in the Great White North, MP Joe Comartin’s proposed bill to legalise single-game betting in Canada appears to have encountered its first real potential opposition from Major League Baseball officials. Thus far private members Bill C-290 has enjoyed a remarkably easy if rather prolonged run through the parliamentary gauntlet of committees and readings. It …