The President/CEO of the Canadian Gaming Association, Paul Burns, found time after a busy September of planes, panels, summits, forums and the like to have a lengthy conversation with Steve McAllister on a new episode of the Gaming News Canada Show presented by Bede Gaming.

Among the topics du jour:

• Burns’s appearance in New York last week at the Betting Gambling Forum during the latest Brain Economy Summit, which produced a framework for player protection globally.
• A postmortem from the SBC Summit Lisbon, including Burns’s participation in a “rise of alternative betting in North American” panel with Jared Beber, Alexandre Tomic, Paris Smith, Dino Stranomitis and moderator Brett Calapp.
• The mini-flurry of fines recently imposed by FINTRAC against CNE Casino, BCLC and SIGA, and the need for anti-money laundering laws to be updated in the true north strong and free to better oversee the current gambling industry landscape.
• More on the Canadian Gaming Association’s response to a recent op-ed in the Canadian Medical Association Journal about sports betting advertising and youth.
• The CGA’s head honcho also provided some thoughts around his conversation with iGaming Ontario’s incoming President/CEO Joseph Hillier.

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The Labour Day weekend was still in our rearview mirror (although we had to squint to see it. . . ) when Absolutebet Corp announced it had been given the green light by the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario to get its licence to thrill for iGaming Ontario and join the province’s highly competitive sports betting and online gaming market.

So, we invited the co-founder and director of Absolutebet, Chen Truman, to be our guest on the latest episode of the Gaming News Canada. Truman is no newcomer to the business of gaming, having spent almost 15 years at Playtech including four years as a product manager. The other co-founder of Absolutebet, Benjamin Truman, founded Media Troopers and Red Apple Tech Group.

Chen Truman covered an array of topics with us, including the lengthy registration process with the AGCO, the motivation to bring its mobile-first product to Ontario, the decision for Absolutebet to focus on igaming when it launches, and what it believes will differentiate its brand from the competition in perhaps the world’s most robust legal online gambling marketplace.

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On the heels of announcing the launch of a new data destination for sports fans, fantasy players and folks who live to lay a wager, StatRankings founder and CEO Kevin Adams was our guest on the Gaming News Canada Show.

The founder of FTN Network and a former financial advisor and owner of a California hair salon franchise, Adams had a chin wag with Steve McAllister about converting his passion for fantasy sports into creating FTN and StatRankings, and also joining Underdog Fantasy as a seed investor. Adams also discussed the ever-expanding roster of data startups in the sports industry, and the appetite for fans, bettors and fantasy players to have access to as many numbers as possible.

We also asked Adams about StatRankings’ partnership with DFS subscription service One Week Season, preparing to raise the curtain on his business for the start of the NFL regular season, and what’s to come.

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