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Jane Holmes, a spokesperson for the Canadian horse racing firm Woodbine Entertainment Group, outlined the competitive impact of online gambling this week in an interview with the Toronto Sun newspaper in which she claimed that the racetrack is currently losing almost Cdn$ 200 million a year to what she termed “illegal” online gaming.
Canadian academics, legal eagles and problem gambling counsellors will be getting it together later this week in the convivial and spectacular surroundings of Banff in the Canadian Rockies to discuss the impact of Internet gambling on the industry.
Paul Kusznirewicz (55) of Ontario, Canada is a bitterly disappointed and frankly angry gambler following a devastating disqualification of what he thought was a life-changing slots win.
The British Columbia Lottery Corporation has nabbed at least eight lottery ticket retailers ripping off customers over the last two years, albeit for relatively small amounts, reports The Vancouver Sun this week. In one case, an employee pre-scratched more than 100 scratch-and-win tickets before putting them up for sale, but was caught and fired.
A new Canadian-based online fantasy sports site, Fantrax.com has successfully completed a five month Beta testing phase and is now in full operation, managing director Richard Blais announced this week.
A new independent survey of 1 065 children age 9-17 across Canada has revealed that too many of them still engage in risky Internet behaviour – especially on social networking sites.
Professor Jim Cosgrave, a sociology lecturer at the Oshawa, Canada-based Trent University has published a book exploring the social impacts of gambling entitled ‘Casino State: Legalized Gambling in Canada’. In the book, the academic questions the propriety of governments augmenting budgets with taxes on profits derived from gambling.
Online gambling marketing affiliates were surprised this week to receive notifications from the Rival Internet gambling company, believed to be owned by Canadian residents, that it intends to exit the Canadian market within the next few days – effective February 1st 2009.
Gamblers in the Saskatchewan province in Canada may have to swipe a personalised card before they can play a video lottery terminal at land locations in the future, reports CBC News.