The 2026 FIFA World Cup runs from June 11 to July 19 across 16 North American cities, including Toronto and Vancouver. For most people that means football, late nights, and group chats going wild over penalty shootouts. For the online gambling industry, it means something else entirely. It means the single biggest wave of first-time […]

Most regulatory news in the online casino space is background noise. A licence issued here, a compliance update there. Players scroll past it and get back to the lobby. This one is worth stopping for. Earlier this month, the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario announced it had fined two iGaming content suppliers — Relax […]

Six weeks from now, Alberta becomes the second province in Canada to open a regulated online casino market to private operators. That’s a big deal. For years, Albertans playing online have mostly been doing it through offshore sites operating in a legal grey zone — no provincial oversight, no local complaint mechanism, no standardized player

Ontario has a regulated iGaming market. Alberta launches July 13. Quebec is still watching from the sidelines — but the sidelines are getting less comfortable. For players in Quebec, this is more than a policy story. It’s the reason they’re playing on offshore platforms right now without any provincial protection in place. Understanding

For years, self-exclusion in Ontario’s regulated iGaming market worked like this: you excluded yourself from one platform, and that was it. One platform. If you had accounts elsewhere — and most active players do — each one required a separate exclusion request. The process was fragmented, operator-dependent, and entirely on the player to man