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With gambling on the rise in Canada, it’s no surprise that the online casinos are targeting tablet and smartphone users, as that’s where the future of online gaming and gambling seems to be. These days gamblers are taking to their phones and their tablets to do everything from placing bets on big sporting fixtures,...

More than 1 in three Canadians own a tablet, and that number is rising year on year. Of all of the tablets on the market in Canada, the iPad is the dominant force, with Blackberry in second, taking up more of a share of the market than Samsung. This goes against the grain as...

The speed at which the banking systems in online casinos operate is imperative for many players. The majority of Canadians use online banking these days, which means they want fast and easy access to their money all of the time, and when it comes to online gambling, things are no different. Gone are the...

Online gambling is an exciting industry and one that can turn any of us into millionaires overnight. Many years ago there was a concern that this industry wasn’t safe, and although that might have been the case 10 or 15 years ago, at the very dawn of online casinos, these days this is a...

In the early days of settlement in the United States, gambling was popular and widespread. In fact, lotteries were even used as a way to raise funds for growing communities and their many needs. If not for gambling back then, then many universities, colleges and secondary schools would have suffered, as it was these...

Gambling laws are never straightforward, and nowhere is that more evident than in Canada. There is a law that says it is illegal for citizens to be found in a “betting house”, but this only serves to confuse things as the truth is that gambling is mostly tolerated across the country and there are...

Gambling is big business wherever you are in the world, and the amount of people that gamble on a regular basis, and the amount that they gamble, has increased over time. It has been reported that over 1.5 billion people gamble regularly, and it’s safe to assume that the majority of these come from...

In 1380, Richard II, a somewhat mentally unstable king whose reign began when he was just ten years old, passed a law that banned the game of dice in England. This seems like a fairly insignificant law and for the people of England it was little more than a nuisance for many years, but...

Canadians love to gamble, and the $13 billion or so that lotteries and slot machines bring in annually are testament to this fact, not to mention the hundreds of millions generated through horse racing and other areas. Canadians also account for a strong proportion of the 20.000+ people that play Pokerstars, the biggest poker...

Canada is a fairly new country, in that it has only been named as such for a couple of hundred years, but there was a native population who lived on the land long before the Europeans planted their flags. We don’t know much about this native population, but of the few things that we...