Atlantic Lottery Renews Calls for Discussing Online Gambling in Atlantic Canada In releasing the results of its operations for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2014, the management of Atlantic Lottery Corporation (ALC) expressed and demonstrated the need to venture into the Internet-based interactive gaming business. The report summarizes financial data that furnishes a snapshot […]
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Triplebet Limited, the online company that acquired the Matchbook online betting exchange site in 2011, has announced with regret that as owner and operator of Matchbook.com, its management has decided to withdraw the Matchbook operations in Canada, effective July 23, 2014. The Alderney-based parent company of Matchbook has sent a communiqué to Canadian customers about […]
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BC Supreme Court Justice John Savage has ordered the British Columbia Lottery Corporation (BCLC) to pay a number of gamblers who hit the jackpot at stake while playing at BCLC-managed casinos, at a time when they were under a self-exclusion program. Hamidreza Haghdust, Michael Lee and a couple of other gamblers who filed a class-action […]
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Ipsos Reid’s latest study of the Lottery and Gaming Practices in Canada focuses on the gambling behavior of Canadian gamblers who came of age at a time when Internet gambling, had already evolved into a flourishing industry. Ipsos calls the new breed as Millennials and describes them as the “social, optimistic and over-confident generation” who […]
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The former Chief Executive Officer of the British Columbia Lottery Corporation (BCLC) Michael Graydon, could find himself in a fix as a result of audit investigations that found him culpable of breaking conflict of interest rules. The audit report published last July 10, spurred the launching of another investigation, this time by the provincial government’s […]
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Ontario Based RGC Says RG Check Internet Accreditation a Must for Online Gambling Operators The Canadian Responsible Gaming Council (RGC) an independent non-profit organization based in Ontario will be administering the international RG Check-Internet in the country. RGC Canada, whose mission is to prevent problem gambling harms whether occurring in land- or Internet-based gambling facilities […]
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Microgaming-powered Canadian online casinos will have two new slot titles to offer this July, as Microgaming will be releasing “RoboJack” and “Fish Party” any time soon. The two new releases are 243 ways-to-win slot entertainment presented in rich colorful graphics and highly charged animated actions. Canadian players will be thrilled to play the free spin […]
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Canadian Poker Pro Negreanu Gets Boosted to Number One in All Time Money List with One Drop Win Last July 01, 2014, the final table of the World Series of Poker’s (WSOP) “Big One for One Drop” fund-raising tournament saw Canadian poker pro Daniel Negreanu losing to American online player Daniel Coleman. Although Negreanu […]
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New Brunswick Awards CA$5 Million as Research Grant for Interactive Games Development This week, the New Brunswick (NB) provincial government awarded a CA$5 million research grant to a consortium of four (4) NB-based Canadian organizations, namely Moncton’s GTECH Canada ULC and T4G Limited, and Fredericton’s New Brunswick Community College and First Mobile Education. The grant […]
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Canadian Dollar Bingo’s “I Love Scrabble Contest” is Back with Bigger and More Cash Prizes This coming July, Canada’s online bingo-playing community will have another round of “I Love Scrabble” Bingo Contest at the Canadian Dollar Bingo site, offering CA$50,000 worth of major cash prizes and CA$5,000 worth of extra prize money. Starting July 01, […]
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