CANADA - Albertans bet away less cash last year, chipping away at funds doled out to charities and other community programs for the second year in a row. But the province still cashed in on $2.1 billion in so-called vice revenue from liquor and gaming last fiscal year as Albertans spent a staggering $23 billion on [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Canada’
Charities hurt as Albertans gamble less
Thursday, December 1st, 2011Alberta First Nations call for gambling review
Thursday, December 1st, 2011CANADA - A group of Alberta chiefs is calling for a review of the province’s multi-million-dollar First Nations gaming policy — a program one researcher called “neo-colonial” in its approach to divvying up casino funds. According to Treaty 8 Grand Chief Richard Kappo, the Assembly of Treaty Chiefs voted in a fall meeting to re-examine the [...]
High level of crime at Edgewater casino
Monday, November 28th, 2011CANADA - More criminal incidents such as assaults, cheating and thefts took place at the Edgewater Casino in Vancouver than at any other casino or gambling centre in the province between 2005 and 2010, according to data obtained by The Vancouver Sun. The Edgewater, with annual revenues of more than $110 million and 3,000 to 5,500 [...]
Sports betting changes closer to reality in Canada
Thursday, November 3rd, 2011CANADA - Canada is one step closer to allowing betting on single sporting events, such as the Super Bowl. Members of Parliament voted Tuesday night in favour of Windsor-Tecumseh NDP MP Joe Comartin’s private members’ bill that if passed would change the criminal code to allow gambling on one sporting event at a time. CBC News. [...]
Gambling addict’s suicide a ‘wake-up call’ in Canada
Monday, September 26th, 2011CANADA – CBC story quotes the Canada Safety Council saying 200 Canadians suicide every year due to problem gambling, and that problem gamblers are twice as likely to suicide as those with other addiction. Robert Williams of the Alberta Gaming Insitutues goes further and claims that 10% of all suicides are gambling related. Story also covers cases of gambling [...]
Class-action suit claims Full Tilt Poker kept users’ money
Monday, September 12th, 2011CANADA - Canadian class-action lawsuit against the online gambling site Full Tilt Poker has been launched in Montreal. The suit, which has to be authorized by a Quebec judge before proceeding, could benefit Canadian gamblers who saw their accounts with the site frozen following a U.S. crackdown on Internet poker sites this summer. Canadian patrons had [...]
Casino self-exclusion program to be beefed up after studies highlight loopholes
Friday, August 26th, 2011CANADA - BC has committed to beefing up a program that lets problem gamblers ban themselves from casinos, after two studies commissioned by the B.C. Lottery Corporation found most self-banished gamblers who tried to sneak back into gambling facilities could. One-third of the 169 participants in a study of BCLC’s Voluntary Self Exclusion (VSE) program tried to [...]
Use of cash to be discouraged at B.C. casinos
Friday, August 26th, 2011CANADA – Gamblers will be discouraged from using cash at B.C. casinos to help crack down on money laundering, the B.C. government announced Wednesday. “The commitment is to transition the entire industry away from a cash business to an industry that runs on electronic funds transfer,” Douglas Scott, head of the Gaming Policy and Enforcement [...]
BC looking to improve self-exclusion system
Monday, August 22nd, 2011CANADA - Casinos in British Columbia are sharpening surveillance and considering stiffer penalties for thousands of problem gamblers who voluntarily ask to be prevented from placing bets — a program that has prompted several lawsuits from gamblers claiming the provincial lottery corporation hasn’t kept up its end of the bargain. News video story at CTV [...]
British Columbia looking to reform charitable gaming funding
Friday, August 19th, 2011CANADA - It’s often the lifeblood of many non-profit organizations — and now, local groups that benefit from gambling grants will get a chance to say how they would like the province to dole out the cash. The Community Gaming Grant Review starts a 14-city tour and community forum. Canada & BC Local.
