“It took me down but it’s something you can recover from if you put your mind to it.” “A lot of it isn’t legal in Alberta as it is in Ontario, but if you have a tablet you can have access to it, it’s wide open - there’s not much anyone can do about it,” said Reshke, who battled a VLT addiction 25 years ago. That spread to Canada in 2021 with the legalization of single-game betting that’s found a major foothold in Ontario, which has registered about 70 different sports books or casinos.īut critics of the activity say it’s easy to get around online gaming bans in what’s a legal grey area.
in 2018, the NHL and some of its teams struck partnerships with casinos and sports books.
Online betting that’s existed for two decades “certainly changed the nature” of problem gambling, but the more recent relentless bombardment of sports betting advertising has added fuel to that fire, said Reshke.Īfter a federal ban on sports betting ended in the U.S.
