SIGA wins award, The Leader Post (Regina)

The Saskatchewan Indian Gaming Authority has won this year’s Canadian Gaming Award for exemplary volunteerism and community support. SIGA won the award on Thursday at the Canadian Gaming Awards Gala Benefit in Toronto. Each year, the Canadian Gaming Association presents the awards to businesses and groups that are recognized as pioneers in the industry and…

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How Prevalent is Problem Gambling? A Critical Overview of Problem Gambling Prevalence Research

Beginning around the mid-1980’s jurisdictions throughout North America started doing research to determine the prevalence of problem gambling. Renowned researchers Jamie Wiebe, Ph.D. and President of Factz Research and Rachel Volberg, Ph.D. and President of Gemini Research have examined the results from over 100 problem gambling prevalence studies spanning 20 years and multiple, worldwide jurisdictions.…

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Casinos don’t lead to more problem gambling, Toronto Star

While I agree with much of your editorial as it relates to Toronto’s budgetary woes, Imust correct the misconceptions it contains with regard to casinos, policing and problemgambling. The research-supported facts are that casinos require no more policing thanany other equivalent entertainment and tourist attraction, and the introduction of casinostylegaming into a community does not…

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Know your facts, The Daily News (Halifax)

While MLAs Vicki Conrad and Leo Glavine are to be commended for their expressed concerns for those with gambling problems (VLT Profits Plunge, But Casino Profits Are Up, The Daily News, July 20), they demonstrate little knowledge of the facts, either with regards to problem gambling or that Nova Scotia already has a comprehensive gaming…

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Criminalizing gambling not good public policy, The Sunday Herald

Peter McKenna, like all people morally opposed to an issue, be it Sunday shopping, big-box retail or gaming, just doesn’t want to acknowledge the facts and presents “information” that he knows (or ought to know) is either irrelevant or just plain wrong (re: “Can a VLT ban actually work?” July 1 opinion article). The facts…

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