Gaming News Canada Show

The Toronto-based Responsible Gambling Council  has released  its 2022-23 Annual Report, so Shelley White returned to the Gaming News Canada Show presented by Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP. The RGC’s CEO addressed the highlights of the latest report, including the council’s work in Ontario’s new regulated sports betting and gaming industry, the importance of continuing to evolve...

The Canadian Football League’s  just-announced partnership  with FanDuel is the beginning of the league rolling out its sports betting strategy.    That comes from our conversation this week with Owen Welsh, the CFL’s associate VP of sports betting, gaming and innovation. Welsh explained the opportunities around the new deal with FanDuel, and the ties of the partnership to both...

Remember the days when Canada Day meant the start of a summer slowdown that included early Wednesday afternoon tee times, taking off Friday afternoons to pack up the tent and sleeping bags and drive to a campground, putting off the first meeting on Monday until after lunch so you could get home from the cottage and drop off the laundry and empties.   No, we don’t remember them, either.  ...

This week, Senator Marty Deacon introduced  Bill S-269 , the  National Framework on Advertising for Sports Betting Act  to put guardrails  in place on sports wagering advertising across Canada’s gambling (and media) industries. Deacon and fellow Senator Brent Cotter joined the latest episode of the Gaming News Canada Show podcast presented by Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP to...

Welcome to the Gaming News Canada Show podcast presented by Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP, road show edition. A steady stream of visitors dropped by the palatial GNC/Homestand Sports booth (Ok, neat and tidy is a better way to put it) on the final day of the Canadian Gaming Summit. Mitch Davidson, the chief of staff for iGaming Ontario, kicked off the pod by answering our questions around the e...

The sports betting and gaming industry gathers in Toronto next week, so SBC’s Cristian Robalino and First Pitch competition moderator Jesse Learmonth tee up the conference. And more on the clash of coalitions.   With apologies to devotees of Bill Shakespeare. . . . regulators, operators, communicators, suppliers, marketers, engineers, data darlings, and sure, even the folks who occupy the exe...

Fourteen months after the launch of the most competitive regulated sports betting and igaming marketplace in the world, there are 45 legal operators and almost 100 licensed vendors doing business. Together, along with the Ontario Lottery & Gaming Corporation (OLG), the industry has delivered more than $2 billion in tax revenue. What are the learnings from the early days of Ontario's regulated...

The sport and sports betting communities got together this week for the first time since 2019 as the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport, and McLaren Global Sport Solutions hosted the Symposium on Match Manipulation and Gambling in Sport at the Westin Harbour Castle in Toronto.   Canadian Gaming Association president/CEO Paul Burns joined the Gaming News Canada Show presented by Osler, Hoskin...

There was another tidal wave of media coverage this week about the high volume of online sports betting advertising in Ontario’s hugely competitive gambling industry. Some of that coverage focused on the Stanley Cup playoffs, with broadcasters, teams and the NHL all facing some flak for the steady stream of sports betting content, commercials, digital board ads and in-venue branding from regulated...

If Richard McLaren hasn’t seen it all, he’s come awfully darn close.   The long-time Canadian lawyer has emerged as a global leader in the fight against the use of performance-enhancing drugs, match-fixing and other forms of corruption in sport. On the eve of next week’s  Symposium on Competition Manipulation and Gambling in Sport  in Toronto – which will be co-hosted by McLaren Glo...

For your listening pleasure during your time in the car, truck, boat, yacht, canoe and/or kayak this holiday weekend to tee up the Canadian summer, we present the latest Gaming News Canada Show podcast presented by Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP.   This week’s panel of Kindred Group’s Amanda Brewer, along with Parleh Media Group co-founders Mark Silver and Gavin Roth, covered consolida...

In case you didn’t believe the tweets, LinkedIn posts and dispatches from other platforms that the Meadlowlands Exposition Center was buzzing this week at the SBC Summit, we present the proof in live audio form.   The latest Gaming News Canada Show podcast presented by Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP was an abbreviated edition of the rapid-fire variety. Over the fortysomething minutes, we ha...

In yesterday’s edition of the  Gaming News Canada newsletter , Canadian Gaming Association head honcho Paul Burns preached patience when it came to the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario and the province’s sports betting and igaming industry finding a compromise on revising some of the standards around advertising and the use of athletes, other celebrities, cartoon characters and social...

As we prepare to draw the curtain on April, the final Gaming News Canada Show of the month provided perspective on a plethora of topics, presented by Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP . Canadian country managers Amanda Brewer (Kindred Group) and Kris Abbott (Betano/Kaizen Gaming), Nic Sulsky of PointsBet Canada, Parleh Media Group partner Gavin Roth, gave three thumbs-up to Nuvei bringing part-time...

The angst over advertising by the sports betting industry took a different twist this week when professional sports leagues – led by the NFL and including the NHL, NBA, WNBA and MLB – got together with two U.S. broadcasters  to create  the Coalition for Responsible Sports Betting Advertising. The coalition, which received two thumbs-up from the American Gaming Association, has made...

After  breaking the news  that the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario was taking a harder line on the use of athletes and celebrities in sportsbook and igaming advertising, the Gaming News Canada Show presented by Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP dug deeper into  the commission’s proposal . Kindred Group’s Amanda Brewer, Phill Gray of Sports Interaction, journalist Scott Longl...

Amanda Brewer, Will Hill and Mark Silver huddled with host Steve McAllister and our LinkedIn Audio audience to discuss and debate the learnings from a plethora of panels – and networking chats in between said panels - during the Canadian Gaming Association Leaders Forum at the Toronto Region Board of Trade last week. That included an unloading of notes and numbers from  iGaming Ontario  ...

The most robust regulated sports betting and igaming market in North America celebrates its one-year anniversary on Tuesday. So, on the eve of the wide-open Ontario market turning one, Canadian Gaming Association head honcho Paul Burns appeared to offer several thoughts on the first 12 months, and a lookahead to what’s next. Burns also teed up the agenda for the Canadian Gaming Association's&...

We were joined this week by an expanded gathering of guests to knock off several items from the latest news, notes and quotes across the sports betting and gaming industry.  SBC Americas editor Jessica Welman was back to deliver an update on both the efforts by U.S. states to legalize online gaming and states such as Kentucky, Missouri and North Carolina to legalize sports betting. Welman als...

The Gaming News Canada Show podcast returns from a one-week hiatus in high gear, as host Steve McAllister discussed with Kindred Group’s Amanda Brewer, Will Hill of Sightline Payments and Betano’s Kris Abbott this week’s announcement from Coolbet that the European operator won’t be renewing its Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario licence at the beginning of April, and posted  its exit st...

Call it one way to become. . . er. . . . more wordly.   OK, OK, apologies for the lousy pun. Truth is, however, that the latest episode of your friendly neighbourhood GNCS podcast has a distinct international flavour. The latest episode started in Berlin, where Bayes Esports head of growth and finance Christopher Bohlmann joined us to expand on the comments he made in the  Gaming News Ca...

Amidst the sleet, snow, wind and cold throughout Ontario and parts of the U.S. on Thursday afternoon, we thought “hey, let’s gather the gang around LinkedIn Audio for an hour of dialogue, discussion and debate to help forget about the winter blahs”. And, for the most part, mission accomplished. Canadian Gaming Association grand poobah Paul Burns called in from a bus with his Leaside Wildcats u18 B...

Jonah Sigel of YYZ Sports Media stepped outside a conference ballroom to speak about his exclusive report very early Thursday morning that Rogers Sportsnet is phasing out its SNBets betting focused content brand. Two Canadian country managers, Amanda Brewer of Kindred Group and Betano’s Kris Abbott, along with Mark Silver and Mike Day from Parleh Media Group, also passed along their thoughts on th...

This week, theScore's marketing and content guru Aubrey Levy joins us to discuss the players, props and other plans for the company's coverage of Chiefs-Eagles. Levy also piggybacked on the recent comments of PENN Entertainment head Jay Snowden about theScore's successful performance so far in Ontario's regulated sports betting and gaming market. Amanda Brewer of Kindred Group, Will Hill...

On the first Gaming News Canada podcast of February – and on the eve of this week’s ICE conference in jolly olde England – Amanda Brewer, Kris Abbott and Nic Sulsky gave their reaction to comments by Conservative MP Kevin Waugh on the regulated gaming industry in Ontario, and  the results of a Paysafe survey  that were released this week. Gavin Roth of Parleh Media Group also lent his vo...