Alberta Gaming, Liquor and Cannabis (AGLC) is the Crown agency that regulates gaming, liquor and cannabis in the Canadian province of Alberta and operates the province's own online gambling site, Play Alberta, launched in 2020 with casino games, sports betting and lottery products. AGLC licenses and oversees Alberta's casinos, racing entertainment centres, video lottery and charitable gaming, and is the regulator designated to oversee the province's move to a competitive online gambling market under the iGaming Alberta Act passed in 2025, under which a new corporation will conduct and manage private operators in the Ontario model. It is headquartered in St. Albert.
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Alberta's window for grey-market operators to move into the regulated market closed on 13 October, and published counts of who made it range from 29 to 51. The regulator registers companies, the Crown corporation approves sites, and the two official lists do not match.
GiG Software says PowerPlay is its fourth brand live in Alberta and the first to run its SportX sportsbook in the province. In May, PowerPlay said its 13 July launch date was "locked"; its arrival was reported on 1 October, and neither company has said what held it up.
Stake Canada Ltd. is now on the regulator's register and says it expects to be fully operational on 12 October, provided it signs an operating agreement with the Alberta iGaming Corporation. The date sits one day inside the 13 October limit for operators moving out of Alberta's grey market.
Century Mile and Century Downs go to Highfield Investment Group, a Calgary developer with a thoroughbred racing business, at 6.1 times last year's EBITDA. The rent Century stops paying is worth nearly half the price every year, which is why the deal matters more to its balance sheet than its proceeds suggest.
An Instagram ad showed the Bayern Munich defender's father arrested over a vault of cash, cleared, and then urging viewers to play the same casino, with an AI Drake for good measure. The link went to a Comoros-licensed site two months after Alberta opened a regulated market that bans athletes from casino ads altogether.