Legal Gambling News, Updates, and Analysis

Get ready, Ottawa: The $350M Hard Rock Hotel & Casino opens July 3 with 1,500 slots, 40 table games, 10 restaurants, live shows & 700 new jobs.

Ontario has finished the process it began in December to separate iGaming Ontario (iGO) from the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario (AGCO). The latter is the province’s longstanding regulatory body, while iGO was created in 2021 to “conduct and manage” privatized online gambling in the province. The split was finalized on Friday, according to the provincial government. Canadian […]

Alberta lawmakers have voted down amendments proposed by the New Democratic Party (NDP) to enshrine responsible gaming measures in the province’s iGaming legislation. On April 16, lawmakers referred Minister Dale Nally‘s Bill 48 to the legislature’s Committee of the Whole after it passed its second reading. If it becomes law, the iGaming Alberta Act would […]

A new lab at established at Concordia will study digital gambling behaviour in real time to examine the industry's embrace of digital.

Three years after launching commercial online gambling, iGaming Ontario (iGO) data confirms that Ontario operators earned over $7 billion in gross revenue since 2022. On Thursday, iGO released its market performance report for year three of Ontario’s maturing online market (April 1, 2024, through March 31, 2025). Among the highlights, iGO’s data shows that Ontarians wagered […]