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Ontario prof calls for online gambling rules16 July 2008TORONTO, Ontario -- As reported by CanWest News Service: "Online gamblers play more frequently and aggressively than those who take their chances in casinos according to a study from the University of Western Ontario that suggests new regulations to govern Internet gambling. "Gamblers are using websites run by offshore companies in 'leaps and bounds' but if there were regulations to oversee Canadian gambling operations there could also be safeguards to reduce problem gambling, said June Cotte, associate professor of marketing at the UWO's Richard Ivey School of Business. "Frequent gamblers would prefer to use a website they trusted and would likely choose to gamble through an operator they knew was reputable, Cotte said she found during interviews with 30 gamblers for a study being published in the Journal of Consumer Research. "In Canada, the Criminal Code prohibits online gambling unless run by the provincial lottery agencies which he said have so far offered 'modest' lottery-type products online. "...Regulating the industry in Canada would be tax revenue for governments and protections for vulnerable people - including youth, Toronto gaming law specialist Michael Lipton said..." |