Canadian Online and Mobile Gambling Guide

We recently reported here at Online Casino Canada that Ontario and more specifically the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation (OLG) were looking seriously at the prospect of moving into legal online gambling for residents and the first part of the planned developments have now come to fruition. Boss Media AG, the online gaming arm of Spielo International, has announced that it has officially been... 

Much of the latest information discussed in the press regarding the changes that the Ontario Lotteries and Gaming Corporation are looking to implement in the industry has focused on land based issues, particularly the “will they or won’t they” nature of the plans for a new land based casino in Toronto. However, as our main focus is on online casino gaming in Canada, we have delved... 

For many gambling enthusiasts in Toronto and the surrounding areas, the effort put in to modernising the laws around online casino gambling and local land based legislation is great news. With the concept of online gambling being some of the most ambiguous in the world in Canada, any effort at change are welcome news. Indeed, Ontario currently leads the world in terms of the thoroughness and effort... 

Great Canadian Gaming, the company behind some of the most popular land based casinos, this month illustrated that there is still a healthy demand among Canadian players for land based casino action when releasing their financial figures for the final reporting period of 2012. The key details in the release are of course the revenues and net earnings, and both indicate that the company remains strong... 

As the subject of both online and land based gambling remains a hot topic on the lips of many Canadians, a recent survey carried out by the University of Montreal and Concordia has indicated that more Canadians are participating in forms of land based and online casino gambling than ever before. The survey itself was carried out with nearly 12,000 people and queried their use of any form of gambling,... 

Amaya is a rare breed of company in the online casino industry that is little known outside its own borders but continues to thrive domestically. That looks set to change throughout 2013, as the company looks to expand through acquisitions on the back of excellent results in 2012. The company itself was founded in 2004 and quickly developed a reputation as Canada’s predominant provider of electronic... 

Some gambling operators in Canada were rocked in late 2012 by the news that the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation planned to remove slots altogether from land based racing venues. The practicalities of the story were that the well-known Slots at Racetracks Program, which was created to stimulate growth and increase revenues in Canada’s gaming industry, was to be cancelled. The program itself... 

In the fast paced cut throat world of casino gaming it can be extremely difficult to enter in to the gambling scene. Many amateur gamblers are overwhelmed by the plethora of rules, strategies, and intricacies of several casino games, thus relegating themselves to simplistic games like slots. Even some slots can be daunting at times and many amateurs are scared away before they even get a chance to...