Its pretty remarkable what happened as soon as the regulation was loosened. In Alberta it feels as though these companies bought every single ad spot available. I can’t walk, drive, browse in any direction without seeing a gambling ad somewhere. Its not uncommon for me to see them in two or three places simultaneously. A real boring dystopia.

Likewise in Ontario, almost every ad I see on streaming services is for online gambling sites. We're new parents, and I'm surprised the baby gear companies rolling in money that are surely targeting us can't outspend these sites.

If I watch a hockey game on the regional broadcasters, I'll typically see 2-3 different apps marketed on each commercial break, followed by another handful of gambling-related entities marketed on the dynamic signage boards during the game, followed by another gambling app which sponsors the intermission panels. It's quite brutal.

The gambling business is a license to print money and the biggest obstacle is having users. Every dollar spent on ads to acquire more users will be worth it monetarily.

I wonder what that did to the girlfriends and wives of the province, can’t be good