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  • It will be interesting to see where this lands.

    The Canadian provincial governments usually have a monopoly in running gambling services, and there is a strong case to be made that this is as much about ensuring that they keep making revenue from gambling as it is to reduce the ill effects of other gambling ads.

    ex: https://www.canadiangamingbusiness.com/2026/10/22/new-brunsw...

    by bushido
  • they need to be banned in the U.S as well.

    every ad these days on TV specially during sports is either gambling, pharma - glp1s, some random medicine with obscene side effects or political ads. & fast-food or fast food delivery sprinkled in.

    by dzonga
  • Hopefully they ban the neo betting prediction markets as well
    by anukin
  • About time.

    I'm fine with gambling existing, but we dont need to manipulate people into doing addictive self-destructive vices they wouldn't already do.

    Also the ads are super annoying.

    by bawolff
  • The fact that I can get stuck behind someone at the pharmacy checkout who is buying lotto tickets boggles my mind every time. Personally I think we need to go way further than this, but it's a start.
    by neom
  • The big loser in this might be the NHL and the NHLPA(Players association). The NHL salary cap has gone up alot in the past few years and TV is a big driver of that.

    It seems like 50% of commercials are for gambling. If this goes away then the networks TV revenue will almost certainly go down and that has the potential to make the NHL TV rights less valuable to the networks.

    The NHL wouldn't be alone here but of hte big 4 north American sports it the most exposed here.

    by chollida1
  • Its pretty remarkable what happened as soon as the regulation was loosened. In Alberta it feels as though these companies bought every single ad spot available. I can’t walk, drive, browse in any direction without seeing a gambling ad somewhere. Its not uncommon for me to see them in two or three places simultaneously. A real boring dystopia.
    by fudged71
  • Good riddance. Why did we ever allow this to happen? It's an entirely self-inflicted public health crisis.
    by geooff_

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