Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Latest Canadian Province Launches Online Gaming


They are manitoba has become the latest Canadian province to go down the path of providing state-run online gambling, announcing plans to launch a website in 2013 in partnership with the British Columbia Lottery Corporation and the manitoba to Launch Site and manitoba Lotteries said that by running its own online gambling website, it would be able to combat thousands of illegal sites which cost it C$37 million in revenues annually to ensure that its residents do not fall into the trap of putting their money in the hand of operators who offer no responsible gambling features.

And the manitoba Lotteries will manage most other aspects of the website is due to launch in the first quarter of 2013 with plenty of gambling options including online casino and poker to the manitoba has also not ruled out including online bingo and sports betting by the launch to estimates the new site will generate $1.5 million in net income in its first year beore rising to $17 million by 2018 is a five percent of income will go directly into responsible gambling and anti-addiction programs.

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