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Earlier this week, the Canadian Premier League announced a partnership with TonyBet online sportsbook and casino. TonyBet is now the official sports betting and online casino partner of the CPL. TonyBet replaces ComeOn as the league’s official partner in this category. This deal comes just weeks after the English Premier League banned sports betting sponsors on soccer jerseys. It also comes in the wake…
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Ontario police busted an illegal online sports betting ring in December 2019 that allegedly brought in well over CAD$100 million in revenue. Police further allege that this ring was run by the infamous Hells Angels biker gang and also possibly by the Ndrangheta crime family. This investigation is commonly referred to as “Project Hobart.” Project Hobart resulted in no convictions due to administrative errors…
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Gateway Casinos’ 14 locations were forced to indefinitely close this week following an assumed cyberattack. Specifics of the attack have not been disclosed. The casino says it experienced “a ransomware attack,” and says resolving this issue is the casino’s utmost concern at this time. The casino also says there is no evidence consumer data was breached in the attack. Gateway Casinos locations have been…
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Ontario’s legal online gambling market is now over a year old. Financially, iGaming Ontario and the 40+ online gambling operators in Ontario have been a great success, but not everyone is happy. Some people are upset by the number of gambling advertisements and the content of these ads. The AGCO has proposed a ban on athletes or celebrities appearing in iGaming advertisements Many famous…
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Legal iGaming in Ontario officially celebrated its one-year anniversary last week. Ontario was the first Canadian province to legalize online gambling and sports betting. According to iGaming Ontario, Ontario’s iGaming regulatory body, there are over 1.6 million registered iGaming accounts in Ontario. The average spend of those 1.6 million accounts is about $69 per month. In total, owners of these accounts have wagered over…
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Legal iGaming operations have now been available for a full year in the Canadian province of Ontario. The excitement for legal betting sites in Canada has reached a fever pitch. Prior to a year ago, it was necessary for sports gamblers to rely on legally gray or outright illegal markets to lay a wager. Now, they can use the legal sports betting markets available…
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