Gambling
Gambling (also known as betting) is the wagering of money or something of value (referred to as "the stakes") on an event with an uncertain outcome, with the primary intent of winning money or material goods. Gambling thus requires three elements to be present: consideration (an amount wagered), risk (chance), and a prize. The outcome of the wager is often immediate, such as a single roll of dice, a spin of a roulette wheel, or a horse crossing the finish line, but longer time frames are also common, allowing wagers on the outcome of a future sports contest or even …
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AUP: Athabasca University Press · 22 November 2024 English
“Dopp looks closely at hockey myths but not solely to debunk them. Hockey on the Moon offers a conversation in the best sense. This is hockey talk that works across …
traditions associated with public spectacles, gambling, and vio- lence (as in blood sports like cockfighting …
DDN: Dundurn Press · 12 November 2024 English
The political life of Dene leader Georges Erasmus — a radical Native rights crusader widely regarded as one of the most important Indigenous leaders of the past fifty years. For …
learned the games, that I was pretty good at gambling. But I learned that you could lose as well as …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 12 November 2024 English
Railway commuting is today a mundane and routine necessity, yet for the Victorians it was a novel experience. It opened up new possibilities of living at a remove from the …
boast no exemption from the universal mania for gambling … Peers and officials alike, far from opposing …
DDN: Dundurn Press · 29 October 2024 English
“Honest and insightful, a testament to Japanese Canadian resilience.” — KERRI SAKAMOTO, author of Floating CityWhen the North American dream meets traditional Japanese conformity, two cultures collide. Does the past …
within the compound exploited the situation. Gambling was prohibited but big- stake games continued …
CPRC: University of Regina Press · 10 September 2024 English
Harold Rhenisch’s poems balance the settler and Indigenous experiences of land and water in the Pacific Northwest A collection of shanties laid out in couplets that move between English and …
priests called anthropologists, this is called gambling, but in my country, men speak for themselves …
CARDUS: Centre for Cultural Renewal · 10 September 2024 English
Cardus supports the creation of a national framework on sports betting advertising. Our core position is that sports betting advertising should be treated similarly to alcohol, tobacco, and cannabis advertising, …
governments on gambling harms; and the creation of national standards to prevent and address gambling harms and … requirement that the measures include ways that gambling corporations (private and Crown-owned) could contribute … contribute financially to problem- gambling research, prevention, and treatment, with these contributions … identify measures to improve the efficacy of gambling prevention messaging.BACKGROUND The following … reality that sports betting is a high-risk form of gambling. The prevalence of sports betting advertising …
CARDUS: Centre for Cultural Renewal · 5 September 2024 English
Was single-event sports betting legalized based on a guesstimate of the size of the illegal betting market
Canada’s Black Market for Sports Betting? The Gambling Industry’s Claims Don’t Survive Scrutiny Johanna … protections, and it’s better for gambling revenue to go to problem-gambling treatment and other government … problems with the argument. For one, it presents gambling demand as basically inelastic: people have a … regardless of the legal conditions for doing so. But gambling corporations (including government-owned corporations … stoke demand through advertising. Nor do the gambling industry’s claims about the size of the sports-betting …
CARDUS: Centre for Cultural Renewal · 5 September 2024 English
Ontario needs to prioritize player safety in sports betting
arguments for legalization was that it would move the gambling already taking place underground into the safer … light of a regulated market, with responsible-gambling safeguards and other player protections. • Yet … are associated with a higher risk of problem gambling: º Ability to bet quickly, continuously, and … chasing; and º Ability to circumvent responsible-gambling tools. • Compared to traditional sports bettors … one study, viewers in Ontario are exposed to 2.8 gambling references every minute while they watch live …
Columbia Basin Trust · 29 August 2024 English
String Quartets $500 LaCafamore) Rossland Landon LaFond Casino Rossland—a tale of Rossland's $2,500 gambling past Peter Reed Album recording - The Time I Have Left $1,800 Véronique Darwin Workshopping play …
LaFond Casino Rossland—a tale of Rossland's $2,500 gambling past Peter Reed Album recording - The Time I Have … LaFond Casino Rossland—a tale of Rossland's $2,500 gambling past Lower Columbia Community Development Fruitvale's …
NCCIH: National Collaborating Centre for Indigineous Health · 26 July 2024 English
“The health of Indigenous people residing in urban centres” brings together accessible data and literature on the health of Indigenous people residing in urban settings in Canada. The report describes …
smokers in group exercises and healthy and increased gambling, alcohol (Gionet & Roshanafshar, 2013). eating; … periods of the long-term negative effects problem gambling, and PTSD poor mental health. Other people of … mental PHAC, 2018; Tait et al., 2013; symptoms. Gambling to escape health that were 1.3 to 1.9 times Wilk … transportation to cultural and Inuit populations because gambling, independent of activities outside the urban of … of different degrees of cultural gambling involvement. The study centre, few opportunities for continuity …
