Gaming News Canada Show

Josh Turk, the chief strategy officer for Low6, was our guest on the Gaming News Canada Show and spoke about the free-to-play gaming business’s partnership with the National Hockey League, including the creation of the NHL All-Star Vote website, and online sportsbooks. Turk also answered our questions about the role of free-to-play in the evolving business of sports wagering and online gaming with...

On the return of the Gaming News Canada Show podcast, Amanda Brewer and Kris Abbott weighed in on the issues to watch over the next 12 months. Those include the expected shrinking of Ontario’s regulated online sports betting and gaming industry, the odds of other provinces’s following Ontario’s lead in creating a competitive marketplace, and the finalizing of changes to the standards for advertisi...

On the year’s final Gaming News Canada Show presented by Osler, Hoskin and Harcourt LLP, U.S. gaming analyst and journalist Steve Ruddock joined Amanda Brewer and Phill Gray for a conversation on efforts to make responsible gambling more accessible to sports bettors and online casino/poker plays in Canada and the United States. Sports management professor Dr. Michael Naraine from Brock University...

Paul Burns, the president and CEO of the Canadian Gaming Association, was one of two special guests on the latest Gaming News Canada Show podcast presented by Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP. Burns answered our questions on CGA’s symposium and annual general meeting last week in Toronto, which brought together almost 90 industry types to discuss player health and wellbeing, and advertising standa...

Matthew Holt, the co-founder and chief executive officer of U.S. Integrity, made his maiden appearance on the Gaming News Canada Show presented by Osler, Hoskin and Harcourt LLP. Holt delved into a busy past two-plus years for the company in providing integrity monitoring services to professional sports leagues, and U.S. college sports conferences and athletic departments, along with importance of...

The day after a webcast hosted by Senator Marty Deacon to  discuss her push  for a national framework around sports betting advertising, a long-time lobbyist and regulatory advisor for the gambling industry said passing Bill S-269 is of the longshot variety.   Troy Ross, the president of TRM Public Affairs, appeared on the Gaming News Canada Show presented by Osler, Hoskin & Har...

The hoopla in advance of last week’s launch of ESPN Bets was well-founded, as the Worldwide Leader’s sportsbook – in collaboration with Penn Entertainment – was No. 1 in app downloads including more than 670,000 in the first 24 hours.   SBC Americas journalist Jessica Welman made her return to the Gaming News Canada Show presented by Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP to speak about the reactio...

As first reported in the  latest newsletter  by Gaming News Canada, the Alcohol and Gaming Commission began last week meeting with sports betting operators and other stakeholders in the province’s regulated gambling industry about its proposal to ban athletes and celebrities from advertising for the protection of minors. Paul Burns, the president and chief executive officer of the Canadi...

Mark Silver traded places with Steve McAllister in the host’s chair for the latest episode of the Gaming News Canada Show presented by Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP, and led a conversation on the NHL’s 41-game suspension of Ottawa Senators forward Shane Pinto.   Silver welcomed Jean-Francois Raymond, a former European pro basketball player and current education ambassador for the Internati...

On the latest Gaming News Canada Show podcast presented by Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP, Epoxy.ai founder and president Jason Angelides discussed his career in engaging sports fans, and the opportunities for the sports betting and gaming industry to exploit artificial intelligence. Nic Sulsky, the chief commercial officer of PointsBet Canada, returned to the podcast to answer our questions abo...

The fall has been a rather busy one for the folks at Sports Interaction, the Canadian-based online sportsbook and igaming operating which Entain acquired from Avid Gaming  back in February 2022 . A new website was unveiled in September, a marketing campaign lampooned Americans’ hockey knowledge, and SIA got on board Hockey Night in Canada as the leading sportsbook partner for the iconic natio...

The  2022-23 annual report  for the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation (OLG) was released last week. Chief gaming officer Dave Pridmore appeared on the Gaming News Canada Show presented by Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP to discuss the lottery corp’s advancements in its digital gaming business, continued growth with its ProLine product both online and on the retail side, investment...

Amanda Brewer, the Canadian country manager for Kindred Group, and Canadian gambling industry veteran Kris Abbott rejoined the Gaming News Canada Show presented by Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP for a rapid-fire edition.   The hour of information, insight and discussion from the panel included some thoughts on the start of the NHL regular season this week and what impact, if any, the change...

SBC News has dipped its toes into the documentary waters for the first time, releasing this week  The Ontario Frontier: Exploring the iGaming Landscape  to tell the story of the province’s regulated sports betting and igaming industry which was launched in April 2022. James Ross, SBC’s multimedia journalist, and senior journalist Charlie Horner joined us on the morning before the unveili...

The exclusive partnership between FanDuel and TSN, which started in the early days of Ontario’s regulated sports betting and gaming marketplace, had been touted for the sharing of information between the trading team at FD and the production folks in the network’s newsroom.  Back in August , the partners unveiled an enhanced feature on the TSN website that further showcased the integration of...

The new episode of the Gaming News Canada Show presented by Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP brought together host Steve McAllister with Parleh Media Group co-founders Mark Silver and Gavin Roth to discuss matters of the sports business sort. Both Roth, who has put his stamps on so many partnership and sponsorship deals for some of Canada's largest sports organizations, expanded on his comments&nb...

Paul Burns, the president and CEO of the Canadian Gaming Association joined the latest episode of the Gaming News Canada Show some 24 hours after giving the latest update to the association’s growing membership. Not surprisingly, some of the conversation during the CGA’s virtual call involved the proposed standards to advertising in the gaming industry by the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontar...

The Gaming News Canada Show presented by Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP returned from summer break to our live recordings on LinkedIn Audio this week. Amanda Brewer, the Canadian country manager for Kindred Group, and Sports Interaction head of trading operations Phill Gray discussed the amended standards around sports betting advertising introduced last week by the Alcohol and Gaming Commission...

The latest episode of the Gaming News Canada Show podcast presented by Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP is focused on  Tuesday’s announcement  by the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario with amended standards for marketing and advertising by sports betting and igaming operators in the province.   Canadian Gaming Association grand poobah Paul Burns, PointsBet Canada executive Ni...

It’s been a while since we last picked the brain of long-time sports betting consultant, sports bettor and the man behind the @SharpEdgePicks account on Twitter/X.    So, with the end of August very near, Redlick joined us this week for a rapid round of sorts on a number of topics – including his thoughts on the wins and losses from the first 18 months of regulated sports betting in Onta...

The start of the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto this weekend presents the annual reality check that summer’s end is just around the corner.   With an eye towards post-Labour Day weekend, and also looking back at a summer that’s been anything but dormant in the North American sports betting and igaming industry, we brought back our usual Gaming News Canada Show regulars to join us for...

Jeffrey Haas’s professional life started as a journalist at the Toronto Sun in 1994, but 10 years later it took a sharp detour into the business of online poker. Since then, the Toronto native has held leadership positions with Bwin, the Asia Pacific Poker Tour, PokerStars, DraftKings, and most recently with CoinSmart and Atomic Hub. The gambling industry veteran – and current free agent – joined...

This week, we caught up with Dustin Gouker, the former Catena Media executive and long-time industry watcher who's now the author of The Closing Line blog. Gouker walked us through the controversy involving daily fantasy sports operators as both PrizePicks and Underdog Fantasy have been ordered to stop operating in Wyoming's regulated sports betting market, and the owners of Betr have launched a D...

While the sports betting and igaming industry in Ontario continues to wait for word from the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario on expected revisions to advertising standards, Rivalry co-founder and CEO Steven Salz provided some details on the Toronto company's submission of feedback to the AGCO's original proposal back in April and his concerns about it. Salz also discussed a busy time of y...

iGaming Ontario released its first-quarter 2023-24  performance marketing report  today, and chief of staff Mitch Davidson provided his perspective on another solid three months for a sports betting and gaming industry that’s now almost 16 months old. Davidson also provided his thoughts on where Ontario sits within the North American gaming industry, and what’s next for the provincial bo...