On a new episode of the Gaming News Canada Show presented by Bede Gaming, Canadian Gaming Association president/CEO Paul Burns returned to the podcast.

Burns joined host Steve McAllister from Las Vegas, where he attended last week’s International Conference on Gambling and Risk Taking and joined Dr. Mary Donohue to talk about The Power of Protective Pause: Emotional Regulation in Gambling Environments. The CGA’s head honcho provided his takeaways from the 19th annual conference.

Burns and McAllister also shared their thoughts and layers from the recent SBC Summit Canada, including:

• The road to regulation in Alberta some nine weeks before the western Canada province joins Ontario to offer a competitive gambling industry;
• The remarks by Stan Cho, Ontario’s Minister of Tourism, Culture and Gaming, at the conference;
• The results of the AGCO-commissioned study into channelization;
• A reckoning from panelists and people with whom we spoke at the summit that the time has come to take further action when it comes to player protection, responsible gaming communication and advertising;
• A need for elected officials and others to be better when it comes to understanding the separation between regulated and unregulated gaming.
• Burns’s response to iGaming Ontario’s launch of its centralized self-exclusion program.

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There was a “well, that makes sense” feeling on last week’s announcement by Kambi that it would be collaborating with Canadian printing security company Canadian Bank Note Company to support CBN’s online sports betting operations in South and Central America, and the Caribbean.

It’s (almost) all Canadian all the time these days for Kambi, which earlier this year helped OLG launch a new and improved version of Proline in both digital and retail form, and then last month was selected by Atlantic Lottery and BCLC to provide the power behind their multi-province sportsbook.

So, what better timing to welcome back to the Gaming News Canada Show presented by Bede Gaming, Kambi’s chief commercial officer – and, of course, a Canadian – Sarah Robertson. Among the topics du jour:

• Kambi’s work in seven Canadian provinces;
• Robertson’s thoughts on the incoming regulated market in Alberta;
• The expected avalanche of activity by bettors around this summer’s men’s World Cup of Footy;
• The ongoing controversy around in-play/prop betting;
• The ongoing story in the U.S. these days around prediction markets.
• The opportunities around the growth of women’s sports.

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Before ironing his dress shirts and (crying while) filling up the vehicle with petrol for the road trip to Toronto and the SBC Summit Canada, Steve McAllister virtually visited one of the panels for this week’s gathering of the Canadian gaming industry for a new episode of the Gaming News Canada Show presented by Bede Gaming.

Joining McAllister to provide a sneak peek at their Brick by Brick: The construction of a new affiliate landscapediscussion Wednesday afternoon were Bet99 head of affiliate marketing Andrew Garven, Linemate co-founder Calvin Konya, Hot Takes Sports CEO Tyler Amirault and former Game Lounge director of casino Keith Geary. Among the topics du jour was examining the changing landscape around affiliates over the four-plus years of legal, regulated sports betting and online gaming in Ontario and the lessons that could/should be applied to the incoming open market in Alberta this summer.

The panel also looked at the evolving relationship between operators and affiliates, and also discussed what’s on their To Do list over the next two days at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre.

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