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The Canadian provincial government of Prince Edward Island (PEI) is facing questions over its investment of Cdn$4 million in the British internet gaming company Roboreus and its Geosweep product, which has reportedly not delivered a convincing performance in the British market. Geosweep is an interesting variation on the normal lottery business model in which instead …
Earlier this year it appeared that fast progress was being achieved by Canadian MP Joe Comartin’s bill C-290, a private member’s measure in the Commons proposing that single game sports betting be allowed as well as the current parlay betting regime. The bill had very strong bi-partisan political support and moved through its first two …
What seemed at the time to be a straightforward husband-and-wife purchase of a Canadian lottery ticket has grown into a complicated and acrimonious dispute between business partners, with a British Columbia court this week refusing to make a summary judgment, referring the case for a full court hearing. Four years ago Maria Fehr was allegedly …
A Toronto man who spent years fighting a decision by the taxman that he was not a professional gambler and therefore cannot claim tax write-offs on his losses, has hit another brick wall with a decision from the Federal Court of Appeal that the taxman is right. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reports that Giuseppe Tarascio …
GBI Racing, a joint venture launched in March 2010 by At The Races and Racing UK, has clinched agreements with Danish and Canadian companies that will enable it to extend its services to those countries. State gambling monopoly Danske Spil will partner with GBI in its Danish initiative, enabling the monopoly to broaden its offering …
The Canadian province of Manitoba is to benefit from the internet gambling experience of British Columbia following a joint announcement that the two provincial lotteries are to collaborate on the introduction of online gambling facilities for Manitoba residents. Quebec and British Columbia have well-established online gambling operations regulated by the provincial lotteries, whilst Ontario is …
A private member’s bill launched by Canadian MP Joe Comartin seeking to allow single wager sports betting has passed its second reading in the Senate, having successfully survived the House of Commons. Ontario Senator Bob Runciman, who has championed the bill in the Senate, told the Vancouver Sun this week that he is confident that …
Online players and industry observers have often expressed astonishment at the extraordinary lengths to which American federal enforcement agencies as disparate as the Department of Justice and the supposedly terrorism-focused Department of Homeland Security seem prepared to go to stamp out online gambling, despite a clear demand for the pastime and so many more urgent …
With all the media attention – and not a little misguided speculation that the Bodog domain seizure included the shutdown of similarly branded but different sites – it made sense this week for the Canadian franchise holder of the Bodog brand to explain what was going on to its players. Canadian Bodog operations are managed …
It’s been a long slog for Canada’s New Democratic Party MP Joe Comartin, but he is still making progress with his private members bill C-290, which seeks to legalise single-game sports bets in Canada. Friday saw another threshold crossed when the bill successfully passed its third parliamentary reading in the House of Commons, clearing the …
It’s a slow and tortuous political path, but a proposal to legalise single game sports betting in Canada has been quietly making progress over the past few months, and this week passed a key committee stage that has forwarded the bill for a parliamentary third reading before going to the Canadian Senate. The bill in …
The Irish land and online gambling group Paddy Power has again extended its influence internationally with a three year agreement with the British Columbia Lottery Corporation, the provincial lottery operator in British Columbia, Canada, to supply product, pricing and risk management services to BCLC’s online sports betting business from the summer of 2012. BCLC is …
Internet gambling technology and software providers will be on the alert today for an important move toward online gambling by Ontario, Canada’s most populous province, which has been talking about an internet gambling program for the past two years. The Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation, which will operate any online gambling program in the province, …
Canadian MP Joe Comartin’s bill C-290, which seeks to legalise single game sports wagering in Canada continues to make progress, passing its second reading in the House of Commons earlier this month, and this week attracting the vocal support of horseracing giant Woodbine Entertainment Group. Over the weekend, the Toronto Sun covered current developments, reporting …
Speaking to the publication IT Business this week, Paul Burns, vice-president of the Canadian Gaming Association, said that small to medium software businesses in the country could cash in on a market worth more than Cdn$16 billion in expected revenues as provincial governments increasingly move towards regulating online gaming. The gambling industry in general has …
Canadian punters have enjoyed legal parlay-style sports wagering for many years, but have been frustrated by limitations that ban wagering on a single sporting event…but that could be about to change, boosting a business that is currently estimated to generate around Cdn$10 billion a year, much of it illegal – only Cdn$450 million is wagered …
The Canadian provincial government of New Brunswick has cleared the way for the provincial lotteries corporation to invest Cdn$2 million in a British online gaming company, reports the local newspaper Telegraph-Journal. A Cabinet order signed Monday this week authorised the New Brunswick Lotteries and Gaming Corp. to make an initial investment in Roboreus, a U.K.-based …
Players are reporting receipt of an e-mail from UK-based Sky Betting and Gaming’s online casino Sky Vegas advising that it will no longer accept Canadian customers. The e-mail reads:
Online gamblers in Canada are reporting a resurgence of last year’s “no Canadian punters” emails from a top online gambling company this week, although detail on the real legality of such exclusions has not been disclosed.
Could there be more liberalisation of Canadian gambling on the horizon? The Toronto Star reports that a member of the New Democrat Party, Joe Comartin, has introduced a private members bill to amend the criminal code and allow people to bet on single sporting events, instead of the current minimum of three.
The possibility of Canada’s Prince Edward Island joining a consortium of other Canadian Provinces within the Atlantic Lottery Corporation receded this week, when finance minister Wes Sheridan announced that the island would not be participating.
The owner of a Toronto convenience store who stole a winning lottery ticket worth Cdn$12.5 million, aided by family accomplices, is at the centre of a lottery scam that has shocked residents in Ontario, Canada.
The Toronto Sun reports that another lottery scandal is brewing in the Canadian province of Ontario, with two convenience store owners arrested for allegedly masterminding an insider lottery scam to the tune of millions of dollars.
Net revenue from provincial government-run lotteries, video lottery terminals, casinos and slot machines not in casinos totalled Cdn$13.75-billion in 2009, essentially unchanged from the year before, Statistics Canada reported this week.