![]() ![]() "Sports betting was something that was very marginal in Canada 10 years ago, and now we're seeing a really significant increase, " said Kairouz.Ĭhanges to the law in Canada allowing people to bet on individual games and various elements within a game - for example, the performance of a player - in part explain the increase in sports betting, says Kairouz. While some gamblers migrated online with the closing of gambling venues like casinos, the first year of the pandemic also saw an uptick in new online gamblers, according to the study, with sports betting in particular as a popular choice for gamblers. "The first main result is that 15 per cent of the population are gambling online compared to 2018 we were at five per cent," said Sylvia Kairouz, professor in the department of anthropology and sociology and the Research Chair on Gambling at Concordia University. The number of Quebecers gambling online shot up during the first year of the pandemic, according to a new study conducted by researchers at Concordia University and Université Laval. ![]()
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