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News of a private jet flying from Anaheim, California to Toronto, Ontario on Friday sparked a firestorm of rumours that the best baseball player in the world, Shohei Ohtani, was going to join the Toronto Blue Jays. This caused hundreds of Canadian sports bettors and other punters in North America to bet on the Blue Jays and Ohtani’s future move. We now know that…
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A new study commissioned by the Quebec Online Gaming Coalition (QOGC) shows that Quebecer prefer to do their sports betting at privately-run sports betting sites than at Loto-Quebec’s Espace Jeux site. The study was conducted by the Mainstreet Research firm. It specifically found that just 26.6% of players play at Loto-Quebec and that nearly 3 out of 4 Québec players choose privately-operated platforms to…
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Unibet Sportsbook and online casino is gearing up to leave the Ontario sports betting and igaming market in 2024. The site’s parent company, Kindred Group, has announced that it will be leaving the North American market altogether sometime next year. This move comes after a strategic review of the company’s business practices and strategies that was commissioned in April of this year. The Kindred…
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The NHL has just announced its newest sports betting partner. The league has just agreed to a massive deal with PENN Entertainment and its two subsidiary sportsbooks ESPN Bet and theScore Bet. Both sportsbooks are now official league sports betting partners. ESPN Bet is an official partner for the United States market, while theScore Bet joins as an official Ontario sports betting partner. This…
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GeoComply Solutions Inc., a leading tech company based in Vancouver B.C. which provides geolocation services to many legal sports betting sites in Ontario, has highlighted the growing desire for legal sports betting in Quebec. The company recently opened an office in Toronto. As a part of its grand opening, GeoComply released data about its ongoing work in Ontario. This data was intended to advertise…
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Ontario Senator Marty Deacon and Saskatchewan Senator Brent Cotter held a virtual panel on Wednesday about the future of sports betting in Canada, and specifically about the future of sports betting advertising. Deacon introduced Bill S-269 to Parliament last year. This bill would require the Minister of Canadian Heritage to develop national guidelines and regulations for Canadian sports betting advertisements. Deacon described Bill S-269…
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Canadian sports betting and online casino company NorthStar Gaming has just released its financial report for the third quarter of the 2023 fiscal year (Q3 2023). Among other things, this report shows that NorthStar Gaming has increased its total gaming revenue by 131% compared to Q3 2022. Gross gaming revenue at NorthStar Bets specifically is up 120% compared to 2022. This increased revenue growth…
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Australian-based sports betting site and online casino PointsBet has just announced that it has hired Brooke Hilton to be its new Head of Casino for PointsBet Canada. Hilton is a veteran of the Canadian online casino industry, so most experts have described this as a smart signing. More importantly, experts view this move as PointsBet committing itself to the Canadian igaming market during a…
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FanDuel has just agreed to a new live casino partnership deal with international gambling technology company Playtech. This deal will see FanDuel greatly expand their selection of live casino games in Ontario. The deal also has the potential to expand outside of Ontario if, and when, online casinos and sportsbooks are legalised in other Canadian provinces. Some of the new live casinos games that…
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Ottawa Senators centre Shane Pinto has officially been suspended for 41 games after the NHL discovered he was involved in gambling-related activities. The suspension is retroactive to the first game of the Senators’ season even though Pinto is a restricted free agent. It is the first suspension related to gambling that the NHL has had to face, though there are other leagues that have…
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Julian Miller is a Canadian writer and an avid sports fan. He has years of experience in the iGaming industry, having started writing while completing his university studies in Montreal, Quebec. In 2022, he graduated, and has since been working full-time in the iGaming space. He has a particular fondness for the English Premier League — though he also has plenty of experience covering football, basketball, and other sports.