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
TORONTO – Woodbine Entertainment will offer $750,000 in guaranteed Pick 5 pools and two mandatory payouts on Saturday’s 167th King’s Plate card, the program that drew more than $17 million in all-sources wagering a year ago. The $1 million race goes at 1 1/4 miles on Woodbine’s main track before a field of 12 drawn … 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
Betsson closed its 64.5 million euro purchase of Rhino Entertainment’s Canadian business on Aug. 3. AGLC’s registrant list carries no Betsson entry; casinodays.com is registered to Golden Nebula Limited through July 13, 2027. Betsson paid 51.25 million euros at closing and owes 13.25 million euros six months later. Golden Nebula also holds Casino Days’ Ontario … Read more
Betty reported US$90.2 million in second-quarter net gaming revenue, up 113% from a year earlier. The Toronto-based casino operator posted US$8.4 million in EBITDA and peaked at 167,000 active Ontario players in June. More than half of Betty’s 53,000 new depositors in the quarter arrived through organic channels rather than paid marketing. The company projects … 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
Polymarket’s restricted-region list now names Alberta, British Columbia, Ontario and Quebec. Those four provinces held 35.8 million of Canada’s 41.4 million residents on April 1. Traders there may close existing positions but cannot open new ones, the platform’s developer documentation says. Ontario’s exclusion rests on a settlement with the Ontario Securities Commission and runs to … 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
On Monday, Alberta becomes the second province to open online gambling to private operators, in the most crowded launch Canada has seen. It will not be a big bang so much as a rolling start, and the harder question is how many of the dozens of brands chasing a province of five million will still … Read more