Responsible Gaming & Best Practices for Canadian Gamblers
The Emerging Impact of COVID-19 on Gambling in Ontario Centre for the Advancement of Best Practices Responsible Gambling. Canadian Online Casinos Executive Summary In Ontario, COVID-19 has had a profound effect on public health and every-day life. In part, this impact has been reflected in the provincial government’s emergency measures declaration on March 17, 2020. These measures have resulted in the restriction of most hospitality and recreation businesses, including in-person gambling facilities, and many non-essential workplaces. In order to understand the effects of the pandemic on Ontarian gamblers and make evidence-informed changes and improvements to community outreach and prevention programming, the RGC’s Centre for the Advancement of Best Practices rapidly conceived and implemented a provincial study. Survey of 2,005 Ontarian Gamblers A survey of adult gamblers (18+) living in Ontario was carried out between April 21-28, 2020 to examine the impact of COVID-19 on personal fi...