Ontario prof calls for online gambling rules

TORONTO - 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.

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