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Gaming News Canada Show

Steve McAllister

Each week, Steve McAllister, the Editor-In-Chief of the Gaming News Canada, digs deeper into trending gaming and sports betting topics with industry leaders and insiders, reporters and other stakeholders in the business. The discussion and debate also includes questions and opinions from our followers about the hottest industry in sports today.Follow us on Twitter @GamingNewsCA for the latest storylines, and links to the weekly live show.Subscribe to the newsletter http://gamingnewscanada.ca Hosted

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36:53

Gaming, Growth & GBG: Inside Canada’s Evolving Market

Gaming News Canada Show ·

2025/02/25

Includingbeing the delivererto regulated operators in Ontario of access to two of Canada’s main credit bureaus, Equifax and TransUnion, GBG Plc has been a heavily invested player in the country’s emerging regulated sports betting and igaming marketplace.The UK-based identify verification company’s Director of Gaming, Rebekah Jackson, returned to the Gaming News Canada Show for a conversation with host Steve McAllister on GBG’s investment in our home and native land. Jackson gave us the goods on the

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1:05:48

4 Years of Gaming News Canada: Media, Betting, and...

Gaming News Canada Show ·

2025/02/18

Four years ago today, a newsletter covering the business of sports betting, igaming, and other topics of interest, was born. On that day,we coveredthe passing of the second reading of Bill C-218 in the House of Commons.Since then, Gaming News Canada – has produced almost 150 newsletters and some 600 audio/visual shows to deliver the latest industry news and insights to our still-growing list of subscribers. This morning, we thank everyone who has had a hand in the success of our neighbourhood media

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34:14

Seth Schorr on AI: The Future of Gaming & Sports

Gaming News Canada Show ·

2025/02/13

Rarely has there been an episode of the Gaming News Canada Show for some time now where artificial intelligence doesn’t come up in our conversations with leaders, experts and media folks.Your humble host recently finishedSuperintelligence: Is Canada Ready for AI?published by The Logic and was inspired to delve deeper into the world of AI as it relates to the business of gaming and sports business. Enter Seth Schorr, the CEO of Fifth Street Gaming and founding partner of GMA Consulting.Schorr made

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43:07

Osgoode Certificate in Gambling Law Returns: 2025...

Gaming News Canada Show ·

2025/02/11

When Don Bourgeois and Harley Redlick showed up at a Canadian Gaming Association event just before Christmas in December 2023, inquiring minds among the attendees asked the pair of Osgoode Hall Law School graduates when they were bringing back a gambling law certification program launched in 2017 only to be placed on hiatus during the COVID-19 pandemic.Well, Bourgeois and Redlick listened and the result isthe returnof the five-module program, which will begin April 3 and run through early May.The

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37:07

FanDuel’s Super Bowl LIX Strategy: Ontarians Bet Big,...

Gaming News Canada Show ·

2025/02/06

In case there was any doubt that Sunday’s Super Bowl LIX will be a really big deal among the betting populace, a Responsible Gambling Council-commissionedsurvey showsmore Ontarians will place a wager on the Eagles-Chiefs tilt than last year’s NFL championship game. Also this week, the American Gaming Association announced an estimated $1.39 billion in wagers will be taken by legal sportsbooks across the U.S. of A. on the game.Those wagers will be a blend of moneylines, over-unders, player props and

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41:04

Inside The Starties: Recognizing Innovation in...

Gaming News Canada Show ·

2025/02/04

Under other circumstances, last week’s announcement about the launch of another awards show in the sports betting and gaming industry would induce a shaking of the eyes and a scratching of the scalp. After all this is an industry which throws out awards like promises during election campaigns.But. . . when WagerWire co-founder Travis Geiger and gambling startups insider Jesse Learmonth (the man behind the Betting Startups podcast, which your humble host at The Parleh co-founder/CEO Mark

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32:24

Amanda Brewer on ICE Barcelona, Alberta Gambling...

Gaming News Canada Show ·

2025/01/30

Gambling industry veteran Amanda Brewer returned to Gaming News Canada Show presented by GBG Plc, having just. . . er returned. . . from last week’s ICE Barcelona conference.Brewer shared her thoughts on the move of ICE to the Spanish city from London, and some of the many conversations she had with members of the Canadian Gaming Association and stakeholders from other parts of sports betting and gaming universe. Not surprisingly, Brewer was frequently asked last week what in the world of Connor

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51:53

Paige Spiranac & Brian Christopher catapult...

Gaming News Canada Show ·

2025/01/21

If you’ve been following along with the writings and audio recordings on this (mostly) august media platform, you know all about the still-growing popularity of igaming within the world of gambling.So, when sports media industry confreres Steve McAllister and Jason Sukrahj reconnected on the latest episode of the Gaming News Canada Show presented by GBG Plc, there was some talk about the current state of media, sporting style. But the conversation eventually shifted to SportsGrid shiftingmore than a

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55:01

Paul Burns and Ariane Gauthier on the intersection of...

Gaming News Canada Show ·

2025/01/16

The latest episode of the Gaming News Canada Show presented by GBG Plc is one of the two-segment variety.Paul Burns, the president and CEO of the Canadian Gaming Association, returned to the podcast for a rapid-round conversation includingthe impactof the current turbulence around the Canadian political system on the gambling industry. The proroguing of Parliament by the Liberal Party will likely result in the demise of a couple of bills, and most likely push back once again attempts to modernize

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49:33

NFL bettors beat FanDuel, political wagering buzz,...

Gaming News Canada Show ·

2025/01/14

There were some raises of Spockian eyebrows last week when Flutter Entertainment, the owners of FanDuel,announced an expected drop in revenueof some $370 million (Amarican bucks) thanks to its NFL customers getting the better of the books this season.So, as the four-down football league’s postseason got underway with wild card weekend, Gaming News Canada Show regular Phill Gray – who led trading operations at Sports Interaction for more than two decades – rejoined the podcast. Gray and your humble

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38:27

Sportradar advances sports analytics with leagues and...

Gaming News Canada Show ·

2025/01/09

There’s a full-out sprint across the sports industry these days when it comes to exploiting data, technology, and more recently, artificial intelligence.Late last year, the founder/CEO of Sportradar, Carsten Koerl referred to the “global revolution” happening around sports analytics. The company’s senior vice-president of fan engagement, Patrick Mostboeck joined us from Austria for a new episode of the Gaming News Canada Show presented by GBG Plc.Mostboeck weighed in on several topics

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1:00:51

2025: The year ahead in Canadian sport business,...

Gaming News Canada Show ·

2025/01/05

The next 12 months are expected to deliver continuing change when it comes to the business of sports, sports media, and of course, sports betting. That was made clear on the first Gaming News Canada Show presented by GBG Plc. of 2025. Brian Cooper, the long-time Canadian sports sponsorship guru and current frequent board member – including chair of MKTG Canada, and Canada Basketball, and a member of the board of directors at NorthStar Gaming – and The Parleh co-founder/CEO Mark Silver were our

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56:17

GNCS Redux Part One: A record quarter in Ontario, and...

Gaming News Canada Show ·

2025/01/02

Back in January, when we were still doing the LinkedIn Audio thing on Thursday afternoons, a Gaming News Canada Show panel covered a lot of real estate over 60 minutes.Mitch Davidson, the chief of staff for iGaming Ontario, joined us to provide some thoughts on the best numbers yet from the regulated business of sports wagering and online gaming in iGO’s latest quarterly market performance report. Amanda Brewer and Phill Gray also hopped into that conversation, including a lookahead to 2024.Parleh

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32:27

GNCS Redux Part Deux: IC360, IXUP join forces with...

Gaming News Canada Show ·

2024/12/23

In early August iGaming Ontario let it be known that a joint bid by Integrity Compliance 360 and Australian company IXUP had been awarded the contract to develop a centralized self-exclusion system for Ontario’s regulated online sports betting and igaming marketplace.Catherine Jarmain, the director of industry programs and monitoring for iGaming Ontario, and IC360 president Eric Frank joined the podcast to discuss the project to build on the existing player protections in Ontario – a program

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46:11

Ellen Hyslop on The GIST of sport in the world of women

Gaming News Canada Show ·

2024/12/19

On the roller-coaster that is the current state of sports media in North America, the folks at The GIST are among the ones enjoying the ride.In October, “the revolutionary and inclusive sports media brand” announced it had reached one million subscribers across its various and sundry platforms. It’s most likely not a coincidence that the milestone was reached in a year highlighted by the overwhelming impact of basketball superstar Caitlin Clark on both the NCAA women’s hoops game, and the WNBA,

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43:40

Are You Watching This?! Founder on helping sports...

Gaming News Canada Show ·

2024/12/17

Eighteen years ago, a former Microsoft engineer was tuned in to the changing landscape of sports broadcasting rights and the opportunity to guide sports fans through the expanding maze.That bit of prescience prompted Mark Phillip to createAre You Watching This?!which today provides real-time data for professional and U.S. college sports around the world. In 2019, after the overturning of the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA) to legalize expanded sports betting in the U.S. of A.,

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49:58

Chris Grove Unpacks the High-Stakes Gambling Storm

Gaming News Canada Show ·

2024/12/12

The latest shoe to drop on the current tempest around regulated gambling in North America happened yesterday when the U.S. Senate for the Judiciary announced a America’s High-Stakes Bet on Legalized Sports Gambling hearing for Tuesday, Dec. 16. All of the ruckus south of the border around sports betting and online gaming, including the angst around problem gambling, sports betting advertising – which is also happening in our home and native land - daily fantasy sports, and sweepstakes has attracted

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42:55

Rivalry’s CEO Steven Salz on esports wagering,...

Gaming News Canada Show ·

2024/12/10

Thecontinuing risein esports betting – expected to hit $2.5 billion (U.S.) in 2024 – and the partnership between Bet99 and PandaScore which wasannounced last week– prompted us to bring back Steven Salz to the Gaming News Canada Show presented by GBG Plc.The founder and CEO of Rivalry, which cut its teeth at inception on esports wagering back in 2017, answered our questions about the still-growing engagement by fans and bettors around Fortnite, CounterStrike, Dota2, Valorant, etc.That conversation

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51:12

Briggs & McAllister - Unplugged on Gaming and Beyond

Gaming News Canada Show ·

2024/12/05

While the snow was flying outside of Gaming News Canada HQ on the shores of Lake Huron earlier this week, your humble host fired up the virtual studio to welcome Dave Briggs, the former managing editor at Catena Editor and editor interim of the Gaming News Canada newsletter, for an unplugged/unvarnished/unfiltered episode of the Gaming News Canada Show presented by GBG Plc.Instead of opening up our notepads, Briggs and yours truly conversed on a number of topics about the business of sports betting

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37:37

DFS and online poker has its day(s) in the Court of...

Gaming News Canada Show ·

2024/12/03

Three days of arguments around the expanding of daily fantasy sports and online poker in Ontario’s regulated gambling industrywere heardin the province’s court of appeal last week with a decision by the five-judge panel not expected until the new year. The legal beagles piled up the billable hours on behalf of their clients, including the Douglas Ford government, sports betting and gaming businesses, the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake, and the four provincial lottery and gaming entities that make up

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