Gaming News Canada Show - Osgoode Certificate in Gambling Law Returns: 2025 Program Details and Super Bowl LIX Insights

Osgoode Certificate in Gambling Law Returns: 2025 Program Details and Super Bowl LIX Insights

02/11/25 • 43 min

When Don Bourgeois and Harley Redlick showed up at a Canadian Gaming Association event just before Christmas in December 2023, inquiring minds among the attendees asked the pair of Osgoode Hall Law School graduates when they were bringing back a gambling law certification program launched in 2017 only to be placed on hiatus during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Well, Bourgeois and Redlick listened and the result is the return of the five-module program, which will begin April 3 and run through early May.

The two gambling industry veterans were Steve McAllister’s guest on a new episode of the Gaming News Canada Show presented by GBG Plc. Bourgeois, who has more than 25 years of experience in the gaming sector and Redlick of Sharp Edge Picks fame, summarized the curriculum for the 2025 program – which reflects the evolving legal gambling industry in Ontario and the rest of Canada. They also told our humble host the potential beneficiaries of participating in the program.

The pair also weighed in on the evolution – and the wins and losses - of Ontario’s regulated marketplace since launching in April 2022, and provided some thoughts on the launch of an expanded legal sector in Alberta.

And, oh yes, we asked Redlick for his thoughts on Super Bowl LIX; the Philadelphia Eagles’ surprising dismantling of the Kansas City Chiefs delivered a banner evening to sportsbooks (as reported yesterday by Patrick Everson for Fox Sports).

To register for the Osgoode Certificate in Gambling Law and for more information, please visit osgoodepd.ca.

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Well, Bourgeois and Redlick listened and the result is the return of the five-module program, which will begin April 3 and run through early May.

To register for the Osgoode Certificate in Gambling Law and for more information, please visit osgoodepd.ca.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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FanDuel’s Super Bowl LIX Strategy: Ontarians Bet Big, PWHL and Responsible Gambling Efforts

In case there was any doubt that Sunday’s Super Bowl LIX will be a really big deal among the betting populace, a Responsible Gambling Council-commissioned survey shows more Ontarians will place a wager on the Eagles-Chiefs tilt than last year’s NFL championship game. Also this week, the American Gaming Association announced an estimated $1.39 billion in wagers will be taken by legal sportsbooks across the U.S. of A. on the game.

Those wagers will be a blend of moneylines, over-unders, player props and those novelty wagers around the coin toss, national anthem, Kendrick Lamar’s halftime gala, Taylor-Travis and more. Among the operators preparing the smorgasbord of betting options is Ontario licensee FanDuel, so we welcomed back to the Gaming News Canada Show presented by GBG the operator’s Director of Content Activation and Brand, Alannah Della Vedova, and Vice President of Marketing Tom Burdakin.

Host Steve McAllister asked Della Vedova and Burdakin not only about the Super Bowl – including its latest Kick of Destiny campaign featuring the brothers Manning, and its plans around its Bell Media partnership for Sunday’s game – but some other topics including:

The continued appetite by Ontario customers for online casino and other games in the province’s regulated gambling marketplace, and FanDuel’s response;

FanDuel’s investment in women’s sports, including the partnership it announced in December with the Professional Women’s Hockey League;

The recent announcement by ESPN that the Worldwide Leader was launching a responsible gambling campaign featuring anchor Elle Duncan, and the potential for TSN and Sportsnet to follow suit;

FanDuel’s efforts around responsible gambling, including the launch of its My Spend customer dashboard at the end of last year.

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Seth Schorr on AI: The Future of Gaming & Sports

Rarely has there been an episode of the Gaming News Canada Show for some time now where artificial intelligence doesn’t come up in our conversations with leaders, experts and media folks.

Your humble host recently finished Superintelligence: Is Canada Ready for AI? published by The Logic and was inspired to delve deeper into the world of AI as it relates to the business of gaming and sports business. Enter Seth Schorr, the CEO of Fifth Street Gaming and founding partner of GMA Consulting.

Schorr made his maiden appearance on the podcast and detailed the use of AI in both his professional and personal life these days, and the many ways it’s being exploited across the industry he’s been a part of for more than 25 years since his early days at The Mirage and Wynn Resorts in Las Vegas.

The Fifth Street Gaming boss also got into the evolution of AI globally in the gambling business- in responsible gaming programs, content and on-site at bricks-and-mortar casinos - the efficiencies it provides and the ongoing need for human resources to support its use. Schorr also gave a shoutout to both ChatGPT and Gamma, which uses AI to produce presentations and decks.

We also asked Schorr to look into his crystal ball at how AI will continue to evolve.

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