Irate sports bettor suing BCLC’s Playnow.com over voided Blue Jays bets
Irate sports bettor sues British Columbia Lottery Corporation's PlayNow.com gambling site over voided 'correlated' wagers.
BCLC’s PlayNow.com TV ads wouldn’t play with an arms-length regulator
Calvin Ayre hopes people know that BCLC's PlayNow.com ad campaign wouldn't be allowed if the provincial government had arms-length oversight.
Writer condems government embrace of ‘drinking, gambling, whoring’
Vancouver Sun columnist (no, not David Baines) gets pretty much everything wrong in an anti-gambling, anti-drinking, anti-whoring editorial.
BCLC dreaming if it expects $150K/day revenue from PlayNow
Calvin Ayre welcomes BCLC's PlayNow.com back into the online gaming world, but thinks BCLC's projections of $150K/day revenue are out to lunch.
BCLC’s revamped PlayNow fails to launch, reps plead for ‘patience’
The relaunch of BCLC's troubled PlayNow.com fails to appear on schedule, despite getting the go-ahead from provincial regulators.
Self-regulated BCLC regulators say wonky PlayNow all better now
British Columbia's troubled online gaming site PlayNow is back up and running after a month offline. Provincial regulators claim all problems fixed.
Tabloid hack David Baines misses working at Pravda
Vancouver Sun hack writer David Baines' pro-government gambling monopoly stance is reminiscent of editorial positions taken by Soviet-era Pravda.
Governments need to look before they leap into gambling
Calvin Ayre talks to the National Post's Diane Francis about the need for governments -- like BC's -- to look before leaping into online gambling.
BC Lottery Corporation fined over money laundering
BC Lottery Corp. is fined $670K by Canadian federal body FINTRAC over irregularities in its reporting and concerns over potential money laundering.
