Sandra Belliveau 
Alberta opens Canada’s second regulated online gambling market on July 13, and more than 30 sportsbooks and casinos are racing a hard registration deadline to be live the day PlayAlberta’s monopoly ends.
Helpline calls from boys and men aged 15 to 24 with gambling-related concerns rose 317 percent after Ontario privatized online gambling, a new CMAJ study found. The data points to online casino, not sports betting, as the dominant harm product.
Drake’s $100 million-a-year promotion of crypto-gambling platform Stake.com is reaching Canadian audiences through Kick livestreams. Ontario’s 2024 celebrity advertising ban does not cover the channel, and no Canadian regulator has acted.
Ontario’s gambling regulator has moved to suspend PointsBet Canada for five days over unreported wagers tied to the Jontay Porter scheme, the first such action against a major sportsbook in the province.
TORONTO — The Canadian betting and gaming industry arrives in Toronto on Tuesday for SBC Summit Canada 2026, a three-day gathering at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre that kicks off at what may be the most consequential moment in the country’s regulated gambling history. More than 3,000 operators, affiliates, regulators and technology suppliers are expected … Read more