Gaming News Canada Show

Aaron GlynWilliams, the Vice President of Safer Gambling for OLG – and the Chair of the Canadian Responsible Gambling Association – joins host Steve McAllister on a new episode of the Gaming News Canada Show presented by Bede Gaming.   GlynWilliams, who’s played a leadership role in OLG’s responsible gambling initiatives for more than a decade, talked about the need for all stakeholders in th...

On a new episode of the Gaming News Canada Show presented by Bede Gaming, host Steve McAllister welcomed Dwain Powell, the Online Director, Sports Betting for Goldrush Gaming – the owners of the BetNova brand.   BetNova entered the highly-competitive Ontario sports betting and igaming market this spring, so McAllister asked Powell about both the challenges and opportunities that have come fro...

On a new episode of the Gaming News Canada Show presented by Bede Gaming, host Steve McAllister was joined by Responsible Gambling Council VP of Strategy and Programs Elaine McDougall and Lisa Couperus, the council’s Director of Education and Programs.   Couperus and McDougall spoke with your usually humble host about the early takeaways from the RGC’s Beyond the Game campaign, launched late...

The latest episode of the Gaming News Canada Show presented by Bede Gaming is a special soccer edition. On the eve of the start of the men’s World Cup, Steve McAllister is joined by Simon Clare the Group Director of Consumer PR and Sponsorship, UK Brands for BetMGM’s parent company, Entain. And later, the dean of Canadian soccer media, James Sharman, returns to the podcast. Among the topics du jou...

On a new episode of the Gaming News Canada Show presented by Bede Gaming, Canadian Gaming Association president/CEO Paul Burns returned to the podcast.   Burns joined host Steve McAllister from Las Vegas, where he attended last week’s International Conference on Gambling and Risk Taking and joined Dr. Mary Donohue to talk about  The Power of Protective Pause: Emotional Regulation in Gamb...

There was a “well, that makes sense” feeling on last week’s announcement by Kambi that it  would be collaborating  with Canadian printing security company Canadian Bank Note Company to support CBN’s online sports betting operations in South and Central America, and the Caribbean.   It’s (almost) all Canadian all the time these days for Kambi, which earlier this year helped OLG launc...

Before ironing his dress shirts and (crying while) filling up the vehicle with petrol for the road trip to Toronto and the  SBC Summit Canada , Steve McAllister virtually visited one of the panels for this week’s gathering of the Canadian gaming industry for a new episode of the Gaming News Canada Show presented by Bede Gaming.   Joining McAllister to provide a sneak peek at their ...

Steve McAllister welcomed back a couple of chief executive officers to a new episode of the Gaming News Canada Show presented by Bede Gaming: PointsBet Canada boss Scotty Vanderwel and Bede head honcho Colin Cole-Johnson.   The reason for the joint appearance? PointsBet and Bede  last month announced  collaboration on a new casino aggregation and bonusing platform provided by Bede t...

The latest Gaming News Canada Show presented by Bede Gaming took the conversation on advertising in the gambling industry in a different direction.   Host Steve McAllister was joined by two of Global TV Experts senior executives: Nick Wood, the Global Director of Client Strategy and Growth, and Jenny Croswell, the Managing Director of Canadian Operations. Wood and Croswell talked about their...

On a new episode of the Gaming News Canada Show presented by Bede Gaming, Steve McAllister is joined by two of the leading voices in the just-released research on sports betting advertising and its impact on young men.   Dr. Andrew Kim, psychology professor at Toronto Metropolitan University and Canada Research chair in addictions and mental health comorbidity, and Greo Evidence Ins...

On a new episode of the Gaming News Canada Show, Covers senior news analyst Geoff Zochodne rejoined Steve McAllister for an extended version sparked by everything going on across the North American gambling landscape.   Zochodne, who will participate on a panel on “tackling grey-market gambling in Canada” at next month’s  SBC Summit Canada  in Toronto, has been  keeping ta...

A wearer of many chapeaus in the business of gambling, Benjie Cherniak joined Steve McAllister on a new episode of the Gaming News Canada Show presented by Bede Gaming.   Cherniak, the principal of Avenue H Capital, provided his insights and perspectives on the issues and topics of the day across the sports betting and gaming industry, including:   What’s at the top of his To Do list the...

Friend of Gaming News Canada Jessica Welman is Steve McAllister’s guest on a new episode of the Gaming News Canada Show presented by Bede Gaming.   The long-time journalist and content specialist announced in February her departure from SBC as Managing Editor. Last month, Welman let it be known she was joining Brianne Doura-Schawohl’s consulting firm to support the practice’s work around resp...

For the latest episode of the Gaming News Canada Show presented by Bede Gaming, host Steve McAllister is joined by the Senior Vice President of Group Operations at Sportradar, Sophie Thomas.   Thomas, who joined Sportradar as Head of Snooker Operations in late 2012 and has served in her current role for a year now, made her maiden appearance on the GNCS at the end of a robust first quarter of...

On a new episode of the Gaming News Canada Show presented by Bede Gaming, Steve McAllister is joined by the co-founder and Managing Director of Partnerships for  Oddin GG , Marek Suchar.   Suchar, who launched the Prague-based company in 2018, continues  to be bullish  on the esports and esports betting industry despite  recent layoffs at Riot Games and  ClickOut Medi...

The co-founder and Managing Director of iGaming B2B supplier  mkdodo , Stuart Godfree, is Steve McAllister’s guest on the latest episode of the Gaming News Canada Show presented by Bede Gaming.   Godfree, whose company creates mobile apps and websites for sportsbook, casino and lottery operators, is among the legions of industry stakeholders on the road to regulation in Alberta. He provi...

Some 30 days before the inaugural event of the  Rock League  begins at the Mattamy Athletic Centre in Toronto, The Curling Group co-founder/CEO Nic Sulsky made his long-awaited return to the Gaming News Canada Show presented by Bede Gaming.   Since creating The Curling Group with partner Mike Cotton in April 2024, Sulsky and his TCG colleagues have acquired the Grand Slam of Curling...

On a new episode of the Gaming News Canada Show presented by Bede Gaming, the interim Chief Executive Officer of Alberta iGaming Corporation (AiGC), Dan Keene made his maiden appearance on the podcast.   We recorded our conversation with the gaming industry veteran, who spent 13 years with the Alberta Gaming and Liquor Commission before accepting the interim CEO role with the new AiGC body, a...

On the 200th episode of the Gaming News Canada Show presented by Bede Gaming, it felt like your humble host was playing a game of 200 Questions with the President and CEO of the Canadian Gaming Association, Paul Burns.   Burns has been a familiar voice and face on Gaming News Canada’s weekly audio show, going back to the early days when we gathered on Clubhouse every Thursday afternoon t...

The 2026  SBC Summit Canada  has a new moniker, a new date and some new topics to be discussed. So, the folks in charge of the Gaming News Canada Show presented by Bede Gaming figured the timing was appropriate to bring back SBC senior marketing guy Dennis Algreen.   Algreen joined host Steve McAllister from London to set the table for this year’s gathering of the Canadian gaming in...

Just before the torch was lit to officially open the Winter Olympic Games of Milan and Cortina, Italy, Jeremy Luke joined us on the Gaming News Canada Show presented by Bede Gaming.   Luke, the president and CEO of Sport Integrity Canada, spoke with your humble host about a busy time for the  rebranded organization , including its tri-focused mandate on safe sport, anti-doping and compet...

Gaming industry veteran Adam Chernoff was our guest for a wide-ranging conversation during a new episode of the Gaming News Canada Show presented by Bede Gaming.   Chernoff, who returned to Covers at the beginning of 2026, this time as Senior Manager – Growth Initiatives, first cut his teeth in the sports betting industry as a sportsbook manager with Bahamas-based A Sure Win in 2011 in the da...

In 11 days, the Olympic flame will be lit to raise the curtain on the Milan/Cortina Winter Games in Italy. Two days later, Bad Bunny will be joined at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, CA, by the two last-standing teams in the National Football League for Super Bowl number 60. This summer, footy fans around the globe will be focused on the happenings on pitches in Canada, Mexico and the United States...

Before hopping on a plane to Spain for this week’s ICE Barcelona, gaming industry veteran Ilkim Hincer hopped into the virtual studio for a new episode of the Gaming News Canada Show presented by Bede Gaming.   The interview with Hincer, the Chair Emeritus of the Canadian Gaming Association who joined Integrity Compliance 360 in October as President, Canadian Operations & Managing Directo...

When the 2026 season of sports betting and gaming conferences gets rolling next week at ICE Barcelona, there will be a segment of attendees climbing out of their hotel beds before the sun rises, putting on their shorts, T-shirts and hoodies and then heading to the gym for some skipping, jabbing, bobbing and weaving. . . and trying to avoid getting knocked on their derrieres by the heavy bag. &nbsp...