Like almost everywhere else in the world, there are sports betting laws and regulations in Canada. These regulations are related to territory and the country’s provinces, as well as to Native reservations.

However, Canadian bettors can always find this Canadian betting site that is legal and that can fit their needs.

History of Laws

The first document about gambling in Canada was written in the late 19th century. According to that document, every kind of gambling was illegal in Canada. However, shortly after that, at the beginning of the 20th century, some betting activities became legal. Bingo games and raffles became legal, even though just for charity purposes. Soon after, betting on horse racing became legal, because the Canadian government realizes that there was a huge economic potential in it.

As time passed, a lot of other kinds of gambling became legal. In the middle of the century, lotteries were legalized. As laws related to gambling loosened, gambling became more and more popular. The real turnover was the legalization of slot machines and related games.

What Does the Legal Situation Look Like Today?

Laws related to betting are very outdated in Canada. Since the law explains that Canadian companies aren’t allowed to get involved in organizing and operating any gambling activity in the country, Canadian gambling enthusiasts gamble on the platforms operated by foreign companies.

Online gambling changed the way that the industry functions nowadays. With internet access, Canadian gamblers can register on sites operated by companies from other countries. However, the problem is that it’s pretty complicated for bettors to search for information about the betting company. Everyone wants to sit on their sofas, take their phones, and place bets. The main advantage of online betting is that it’s far more comfortable and convenient, but when you have to search about the company and if it legal for you to bet on that site, it can be exhausting.

The minimum legal age for gambling in Canada is 18 or 19 years, depending on your location (province).

The Criminal Code of Canada is the institution that regulates everything related to online and offline betting in Canada. It gives licenses and let them, or forbids them to work.

Kahnawake Gaming Commission is the institution that operates online and land-based casinos in one particular territory. Those who live on that territory can play casino online or offline casino games operated by the mentioned institution.

However, since there is a huge economic potential in the industry, the Canadian government may soon allow betting companies to run an online business.

Police are investigating a fire at a dispensary on Dutch Village Road in Halifax that damaged the building and burned marijuana being stored inside.

Fire crews were called to a business registered as Greenhouse Wellness before 7 a.m. By around 8 a.m., the fire was safely extinguished.

Roy Hollett, deputy chief with Halifax Regional Fire and Emergency, confirmed there was marijuana in the building and it could definitely be smelled outside as the fire burned.

He said the fire started behind the structure and moved inside. There were no injuries reported.

Police closed the 3400-block of Dutch Village Road between Rosedale Avenue and Joseph Howe Drive for over 60 minutes. It was reopened shortly before 9:00AM.

Dispensaries that sell cannabis have remained illegal in Nova Scotia despite the legalization of recreational marijuana and other ventures like online casinos real money in Canada on Oct. 17. The only place to buy recreational cannabis legally in the province is through the Nova Scotia Liquor Corporation.

This is not to say that it doesn’t have some underlying issues – ones that it may now be possible to resolve through the use and application of artificial intelligence. Widely utilised across a number of industries and sectors, this technology could revolutionize how the world of online gambling works, creating a vastly improved experience for all…    

A world of possibilities

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Although AI technology has developed at a rapid rate in recent years, the intersection between AI and gaming is nothing new, having begun over two decades ago, when the Deep Blue computer created by IBM defeated renowned chess champion Garry Kasparov 3.5-2.5 in a six-match game. Recent progress has led to a continuation of this trend, with the most famous example of AI in the gambling arena coming in January 2017, when Carnegie Mellon’s Libratus AI won thousands of poker hands over many top-rated players.

Yet the utility of AI has the potential to go far beyond man versus machine showboating. Offering the enticing possibility of a vastly improved user experience, AI could help leading online casinos to create a platform that’s virtually been built with the individual player in mind. One possible application is customization for the player. For instance, LeoVegas currently features 118 games available to players in Canada, including slots, roulette variants, blackjack and more. AI can learn from each individual player’s gaming sessions in order to build a personalized, player-specific home page. This will save sorting through dozens of slots games by ensuring their preferred options are right there in pride of place.      

More than this, AI will allow the scrapping of generic and impersonal customer service bots in favour of a new breed of intelligence concierge – one that’s not only set up to meet the player’s every need but also delivers faster, more focused resolutions to issues. The outcome of such a scenario being brought to the table is an enticing one: friendly, relevant, and above all responsive automated systems that do exactly what they’re supposed to.   

Levelling the playing field 

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It’s not only players who the implementation of AI technology could benefit. Online casinos too will be advantaged, in the sense that such advances could make it far easier to root out cheats and level the playing field.   

Helping to minimize the disadvantages associated with an inability to physically monitor player behaviour, this would allow casinos to keep one step ahead of would-be fraudsters, thwarting their employment of probability programs and their own AI bots to make play much fairer for all.    

Offering a world of possibilities to the online gambling sector, AI has the potential to transform the Canadian casino industry, making it a safer and more enjoyable place for each and every one of its players. Protecting against manipulation whilst at the same time allowing a more efficient and individual experience, this rapidly developing technology might just represent a true force for good in the ever-evolving world of internet gaming. 

Our journalists have learned that Kelvin Cheung, recently convicted this week in Winnipeg of pretending to be a licensed physiotherapist, was hired last fall as the manager of assistive technology at the Nova Scotia Rehabilitation and Arthritis Centre in Halifax.

The centre describes itself as “providing specialized adult rehabilitation and complex continuing care.”

The 32-year-old man, whom co-workers knew as Karl, stopped working at the centre this spring — several months before the College of Physiotherapists of Manitoba tipped off its counterparts in Nova Scotia that he was reportedly working in the province under an alias.

Joan Ross, registrar of the Nova Scotia College of Physiotherapists, said she was told Cheung’s work at the centre did not involve physiotherapy. She said in her 20 years as registrar, she’s never encountered a case like this.

She said the situation is “concerning enough that nationally we’re keeping tabs on him.”

The Nova Scotia Health Authority declined to comment on Cheung except to say that he is no longer an employee.

Cheung did not respond to an interview request from any provincial or national news outlet.