The British Columbia Lottery Corporation is a Crown corporation founded in 1985 and headquartered in Kamloops, British Columbia. It conducts and manages all lottery, sports betting and casino gambling in the province. Its PlayNow platform is the only licensed online casino operator in British Columbia, and BCLC also supplies it into Manitoba and Saskatchewan, making it the closest thing Canada has to a multi-province online gaming operator outside Ontario's open market. The corporation has delivered 28 billion Canadian dollars to the province since 1985. It has also been at the centre of British Columbia's money laundering debate, which drove the Cullen Commission and reshaped source-of-funds requirements across Canadian casinos.
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Four provincial lottery corporations asked the Supreme Court of Canada on 7 October to overturn the ruling that would let Ontario's poker and fantasy players sit at the same tables as players abroad. The nine judges reserved judgment, and no date has been set for a decision.
Ontario will defend its plan to pool poker and fantasy players with other jurisdictions against four Crown lottery corporations, which say it is Ontario conducting gaming outside Ontario. Alberta, Flutter, GGPoker's parent and the Canadian Gaming Association will be heard as interveners. Every other province's monopoly turns on the answer.
The province and the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations have amended their Gaming Framework Agreement to keep the Saskatchewan Indian Gaming Authority's PlayNow.com as the only legal online operator for another three years, add 49 slot machines to SIGA's allocation and approve a First Nations gaming centre pilot at Flying Dust First Nation.
Canada's securities regulators declined jurisdiction over sports event contracts on Thursday. By Friday British Columbia had picked it up, naming Kalshi and Polymarket and calling their sports and entertainment products illegal. That is the sequence operators should be watching.
With this deal, Kambi will be powering sports betting in eight of Canada's ten provinces. The PROLINE expansion is one of the most significant supplier wins in North American sports betting this year.
Ontario wants to open its poker and daily fantasy sports markets to players across borders. Four lottery corporations say that would break the law. Canada's Supreme Court will now decide who is right.