With the final days away, the 2026 tournament is on track to be the most heavily wagered event in history, and in Canada, where a home World Cup met a maturing legal market, the numbers jumped further still, even as the ads and the harm that came with them drew a political backlash. TORONTO – … 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
Are loot boxes gambling, and are they training kids to bet? Studies link them to youth problem gambling. Here is what the research shows and where Canada stands.
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
Wealthsimple and Kalshi have brought prediction markets to Canadian investors, but securities regulators have walled off the sports and election contracts that power the boom south of the border, leaving Canada with a halfway version of the fastest-growing product in betting. TORONTO – Prediction markets, the fastest-growing product in online betting, finally have a regulated … 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
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.