The AGCO ordered $70,000 in monetary penalties against slot supplier Booming Games (Malta) Limited on Aug. 20. Auto-play ran on multiple Booming Games slots offered to Ontario players for several months before it was disabled. Ontario bans slot auto-play because manual spins create a deliberate pause between wagers. Booming Games has 15 days to request … Read more
The AGCO ordered $120,000 in penalties after nine people under 19 deposited and gambled on Betty.ca. Fourteen more underage individuals opened accounts without depositing, and those registrations breach the standard on their own. Betty Gaming spotted the flaw itself, and the AGCO learned of it in November 2025. Betty Gaming has 15 days to appeal … Read more
Soft2Bet, the company behind the heavily Canadian-branded, AGCO-licensed ToonieBet, is the subject of an international investigation that links it to scores of blacklisted offshore casinos, one of which reporters say took bets from Ontarians and did not check players’ ages. Ontario’s regulator, which renewed ToonieBet’s licence in March, now says it is reviewing. Soft2Bet denies … Read more
TORONTO – Hard Rock Bet went live in Ontario on July 22 with a sportsbook and online casino, its first market outside the United States and its entry into one of North America’s most saturated regulated fields, where it registers as operator No. 48. A Late Entry Into A Full Field Ontario opened its regulated … Read more
A six-figure money-laundering penalty against the company behind Pickering Casino Resort is just the newest signal that Ontario’s gaming regulator, long content to issue polite reminders, will now come after casinos, betting apps and even the studios that stock their games, and will pull a licence when it decides that is warranted. TORONTO – Through … Read more
Four years after launch, Ontario’s regulated iGaming market is posting some of its biggest numbers yet, with April revenue the third-highest on record and up almost 30 percent in a year, even as the money rolls in mainly from online casino and the conversation about harm grows louder. TORONTO – Ontario’s regulated online gambling market … Read more
Five years after Parliament decriminalized single-game wagering, Canada has a multibillion-dollar online market, a mounting public-health bill and exactly one province that has opened its doors to competition. TORONTO – The story of legal sports betting in Canada turns exactly five years old on June 29. On that date in 2021, a private member’s bill … Read more
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.