Sports Betting
ComeOn Group adds sportsbook to Ontario offering
ComeOn Group will begin providing its sportsbook in Ontario after receiving approval from the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario (AGCO) and iGaming Ontario (iGO).The company is already one of 51 operators doing business in Ontario's regulated market. It has been live in the province since…
Senate passes National Framework on Advertising for Sports Betting Act
Bill S-269, the proposed legislation that would establish a national framework for regulating sports betting adverts across Canada, was adopted in the Senate on Tuesday.After the Transport and Communications Committee held initial debates in June and six hours of hearings in late September and…
Kahnawà:ke and Entain officially call time on Sports Interaction partnership
The Mohawk Council of Kahnawà:ke (MCK) no longer works with Entain Group on the operation of the Sports Interaction online gaming platform in Canada.The MCK said in a statement that effective Oct. 28, its wholly-owned Mohawk Online Limited (MOL) has ended its longstanding exclusive partnership…
PointsBet’s Canadian betting business continues to boom
PointsBet's Canadian sports betting business continues to grow as the company reported big jumps in handle and net win in Canada last quarter.While iGaming remains PointsBet's chief source of revenue in Canada, the gap between online gaming and sports wagering closed significantly over the last…
Ontario lowers gaming expectations in Fall Economic Statement
The Ontario government says it expects to make significantly less money from gaming in the current fiscal year than it had previously projected.In its Fall Economic Statement published on Wednesday, the government said that a key reason for the adjustment in expectations is that Ontarians are…
Ontario online casinos more than compensate for flat betting quarter
Summer slowdown? Not so much in Ontario, at least on the iGaming side.Commercial operators in Ontario’s regulated gaming market took $18.7 billion in wagers in the second quarter of the year alone, from July 1 to Sept. 30. That handle, as well as the gross gaming revenue figure of $738 million,…
OLG report suggests it holds one-fifth of Ontario online gaming market
The Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation (OLG)'s full-year report suggests that the lottery corporation captured one-fifth of Ontario's regulated online gambling activity in the 2023-24 fiscal year.Earlier this month, OLG published its full-year figures for the FY that ended on March 31, 2024.…
BetVictor signs former Toronto Raptor Tracy McGrady
Former Toronto Raptor Tracy McGrady has plenty of experience as a victor, having twice been named NBA scoring champion during his career.Now, the seven-time All-Star is making it official. The 45-year-old has signed up with BVGroup as the BetVictor brand's Safer Gambling Ambassador in Canada.…
Nally’s approach to Alberta is to lead with the carrot
Speaking at the Global Gaming Expo in Las Vegas last week, Minister of Service Alberta and Red Tape Reduction Dale Nally offered no exact timeline on when Alberta might establish a regulated online gambling market, but he did give some insights into how he is approaching the process and how…
NorthStar Gaming fined $30K for failing to ID device outside Ontario
NorthStar Gaming has run afoul of Ontario authorities over a geolocation test issue.The Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario (AGCO) has fined NorthStar Gaming (Ontario) Inc. $30,000 after an assessment found the operator had failed to identify that a test device trying to access its…