Yolina has followed closely the latest development on the Canadian gaming scene over the past years, monitoring the land-based, lottery, and online offerings up for grabs. The dynamic nature of the local lottery and casino fields, as well as the opportunities lying ahead of Canada fire her enthusiasm for what is to come. A sports betting enthusiast, in her spare time Yolina could be found in her natural habitat – turning the pages of biographies and catching up on the latest stand-up comedy podcasts.
This month, Alberta saw the reopening of the former Cambridge Hotel and Conference Centre in Red Deer restart operations as Red Deer Resort and Casino. It marked another occasion of important investment in the province’s gambling sector in 2023. The opening of the gaming location was a relocation of Red Deer’s existing Jackpot Casino.
This week, Woodbine Entertainment released additional information for its upcoming four pop-up series at its Woodbine Mohawk Park for October 2023. Each of the four events is set to have three preliminary legs with total purses of CA$15,000 for each division, as well as a CA$30,000 finals.
Curling is back and PointsBet Canada is giving fans a chance at winning a CA$1 million by predicting correctly the perfect bracket at the 2023 PointsBet Invitational. This can happen via the operator’s free-to-play Sweep 16 Bracket Challenge which is now open for fans to submit their guesses for the perfect men’s and women’s brackets for t ...
Most recently, Rivalry announced that the company will have representation at the SBC Summit Barcelona 2023. The leading iGaming and sports betting operator for Millennials and Gen Z informed that its Executive Vice President of Corporate Development, Billy Levy, will be speaking at a conference, scheduled for Wednesday, September 20, 2023.
The British Columbia Lottery Corporation has found an unconventional way of promoting sports betting on its PlayNow brand. This month, the Crown launched “Picture Them Naked”, which as the name suggests is a fun new campaign that utilizes an old piece of advice usually used to help calm one’s nerves and potentially remove the stress from s ...
Bragg Gaming Group’s recently appointed CEO, Matevž Mazij, has sat down to discuss the iGaming supplier’s plans for 2024. The company eyes further expansion across regulated markets including bolstering activities in North America and Latin America. He also shared that the provider is on course to issue over 60 new exclusive games this year ...
The Province of Prince Edward Island has recently introduced its first new responsible gambling strategy since an approach was announced back in 2008. Back in the day, the largest concerns regarding problem gambling stemmed from video lottery terminals. But today, the province believes that the biggest alarms are related to the popularity of onl ...
Just last week, the Province of Saskatchewan learned the name of its newest VLT-minted millionaire. According to the Western Canada Lottery Corporation, a man from Regina has triggered a hefty jackpot worth just over CA$1 million by playing a Vault Breaker machine. The solid winning dates back to September 8, 2023.
Seneca Niagara Resort & Casinos in Niagara Falls, New York State, is again recognized for its premium offerings. This time the gaming property has been acknowledged in the USA TODAY 10Best Readers’ Choice Awards for “Best Casino Outside of Las Vegas.” The casino was selected as a winner in the category among 19 other nominees.
Ontario may have only kicked off its regulated market for online gambling in April 2022, but betting figures already show that the jurisdiction can talk to the big players in the industry. The province’s first 12 months of iGaming put the jurisdiction in the top two markets when compared to the first full year of Michigan, New Jersey and Penns ...
