Gaming News Canada Show

Harry Levant walked out of a casino after making what would be his final wager on April 27, 2014, returned to his hotel room and attempted to write a suicide note to leave for his family. He decided against taking his own life and has spent the past four years dedicated to working with people struggling with gambling addiction, as he did.   Now a Doctor of Law and Policy, and the Director of...

The Responsible Gambling Council over the past week  announced the release  of a Gambling, Marketing and Advertising report that was funded by Flutter Entertainment. RGC CEO Sarah McCarthy was in Ottawa with Ontario Minister of Tourism, Culture and Gaming Stan Cho, OLG head honcho Duncan Hannay and other executive types for the  opening of the PlaySmart Centre  inside the spank...

The Canadian Gaming Summit ended last Thursday but not before delivering some news, a new name (to be henceforth known as SBC Summit Canada), some new partnerships and some new friends before some 3,000-plus weary members of the gambling industry boarding planes, trains, buses, Ubers and other automobiles to head home.   Before he could take his leave from the Metro Toronto Convention Centre,...

The latest episode of the Gaming News Canada Show is one of the two-part type as we pack our suitcase and fill up the GNC vehicle before heading to the city below Uxbridge for this week’s  Canadian Gaming Summit .   Canadian Gaming Association senior executive Amanda Brewer returned to the show for a rapid round on what’s happening across the national gaming industry these days. That inc...

The Canadian Gaming Association has been active for quite some time now in advocating for updates to anti-money laundering laws in our home and native land with the expansion of legal gambling. Dave Briggs  addressed the topic  at the beginning of the year with CGA boss Paul Burns, who said the uncertain political climate at that time most likely meant no movement until this fall. ...

It’s been a while since an episode of the Gaming News Canada Show went into overtime. However, it’s also been a while since Jonah Sigel was our guest, and the timing couldn’t be better.    Sigel, the guy behind the @yyzsportsmedia account on X, the YYZ Sports Media website and the Bleave   In The Pressrow Podcast, has been on top of the coverage around another disappointing playoff...

As we prepare to close the book on May and begin ironing our shirts and socks in preparation for next month’s  Canadian Gaming Summit  (registration information with a family discount – well, sort of – can be found below) in the city below Georgina, Troy Ross of TRM Public Affairs made his return to the Gaming News Canada Show.   Among the topics on the agenda for our chin wag with...

With apologies to Benjamin Franklin, there are three sure things in the game of life these days: death, taxes and a mention of responsible gambling on the Gaming News Canada Show. In the latest episode, RG is front and centre thanks to last week’s introduction of Real-Time Check-In by FanDuel – the latest tool/program launched by the Flutter Entertainment brand to lend a hand to its customers. Fan...

These are busy times for Soft2Bet and its ToonieBet brand in Ontario’s regulated sports betting and online gaming industry.   Last month, the Ottawa Senators  introduced ToonieBet  as the NHL club’s new official online casino partner. Last week, Soft2Bet  made available  to Ontario bettors its new sportsbook via the ToonieBet brand, having launched its online casino app a...

When Ontario’s open, legal online gambling industry opened its doors in the spring of April 2022, folks around the business of sports wagering and igaming wondered how arrival of a highly competitive industry would impact the Ontario Lottery & Gaming Corporation.   Well, as OLG leadership has acknowledged over the past three-plus years, the new kids on the block forced the corporation to...

In the spring of 2022, Chavdar Dimitrov left Bede Gaming after almost nine years to join forces with Justin Park and launch Betty. Some nine months later, Betty unveiled its product in Ontario’s regulated gambling marketplace.   Today, the company touts more than 39,000 customers and recently  nailed down  a $15 million credit facility to grow its business, including plans to launch...

It has been a fortnight and more since Paul Burns has been our guest on the Gaming News Canada Show. So given the various happenings around the Canadian gambling industry since his last appearance at the beginning of 2025, we asked Paul Burns to join us once again.   With apologies to the late  James Stewart and Frank Capra , Mr. Burns went to Ottawa earlier this month for the Counc...

From the Department of Learning Something New Every Day (or something went MIA from our aging brain): Bill Gates was the brain behind the “content is king” phrase. Alas, we digress. On the latest Gaming News Canada Show, The Parleh’s director of creative strategy and partnerships, Kevin Kennedy returned to the podcast for a chin wag about the evolution of content and storytelling in the legal busi...

The latest episode of the Gaming News Canada is a gathering of members of the fourth estate to discuss and debate the latest storylines in the business of sports wagering and gaming.   Dave Briggs, who mans the keyboard these days on the GNC newsletter. Robyn McNeil of Catena Media’s Bonus outlet and Covers senior news analyst Geoff Zochodne join the media roundtable. The three-year anniversa...

It had been a while since John Levy last spoke when he appeared last month at the  NEXT.io  Summit in New York. He had a  few things to say  about the departure of himself and sons Aubrey, Noah and Benjie from PENN Entertainment some 14 months ago, more than 2 ½ years after PENN acquired theScore in 2021.   We’ve been giving it the old college try to get the elde...

Ontario’s open, regulated sports wagering and online gaming market will turn three years old next week (the Fourth of April to be exact). A marketplace that opened in 2022 with a baker’s dozen of operators approved to open their digital doors for business  has expanded  to 50 operators managing 84 gaming websites.   Just before the Ontario market’s third anniversary, your humble hos...

For Rick Allec, the wonderful world of sports blazed the path to a career in the gaming industry that’s now in its fourth decade.   Allec, who’s today in charge of  OddsLogic  and  WagerTalk Media , made his maiden appearance on the Gaming News Canada Show presented by GBC Plc. Host Steve McAllister took the sports betting industry veteran back to his first gig in the industry...

To mention that Ilkim Hincer has had his fingers on the pulse of regulated gambling in Canada and the U.S. over the five years is akin to proclaiming Connor McDavid is a pretty decent player of hockey.   Hence, our motivation for some time now to get the former Chair of the Canadian Gaming Association into the virtual studio for an appearance on the Gaming News Canada Show presented by GBG Pl...

When the topic of startups comes up in a conversation, one of the first thoughts is a company created by young people chugging Red Bull and leaving empty pizza boxes on the floor.   OK, perhaps we exaggerate a little bit. However, the co-founders of  Defy The Odds , formed to lend a helping hand to other startups, aren’t your stereotypical startup trio. Sue Schneider, Paris Smith and Kel...

When the National Hockey League and the National Hockey League Players’ Association (finally) decided to take the Nestea plunge into international hockey again, puck insiders and fans - and the best players from Canada, the U.S. of A., Sweden and Finland - weren’t quite sure what the 4 Nations Face-Off would produce.   Well, the four-team tournament which culminated with Connor McDavid’s...

Including  being the deliverer to regulated operators in Ontario of access to two of Canada’s main credit bureaus, Equifax and TransUnion, GBG Plc has been a heavily invested player in the country’s emerging regulated sports betting and igaming marketplace.   The UK-based identify verification company’s Director of Gaming, Rebekah Jackson, returned to the Gaming News Canada Show for a co...

Four years ago today, a newsletter covering the business of sports betting, igaming, and other topics of interest, was born. On that day,  we covered  the passing of the second reading of Bill C-218 in the House of Commons.   Since then, Gaming News Canada – has produced almost 150 newsletters and some 600 audio/visual shows to deliver the latest industry news and insights to our st...

Rarely has there been an episode of the Gaming News Canada Show for some time now where artificial intelligence doesn’t come up in our conversations with leaders, experts and media folks.   Your humble host recently finished  Superintelligence: Is Canada Ready for AI?  published by The Logic and was inspired to delve deeper into the world of AI as it relates to the business of gamin...

When Don Bourgeois and Harley Redlick showed up at a Canadian Gaming Association event just before Christmas in December 2023, inquiring minds among the attendees asked the pair of Osgoode Hall Law School graduates when they were bringing back a gambling law certification program launched in 2017 only to be placed on hiatus during the COVID-19 pandemic.   Well, Bourgeois and Redlick listened...

In case there was any doubt that Sunday’s Super Bowl LIX will be a really big deal among the betting populace, a Responsible Gambling Council-commissioned  survey shows  more Ontarians will place a wager on the Eagles-Chiefs tilt than last year’s NFL championship game. Also this week, the American Gaming Association announced an estimated $1.39 billion in wagers will be taken by legal sp...