While the snow was flying outside of Gaming News Canada HQ on the shores of Lake Huron earlier this week, your humble host fired up the virtual studio to welcome Dave Briggs, the former managing editor at Catena Editor and editor interim of the Gaming News Canada newsletter, for an unplugged/unvarnished/unfiltered episode of the Gaming News Canada Show presented by GBG Plc.

Instead of opening up our notepads, Briggs and yours truly conversed on a number of topics about the business of sports betting and gaming, including:

• Briggs’s tour of duty in journalism, the horse racing industry, and his time at Catena as editor-in-chief of Play Ontario/Play Canada, PlayPennsylvania, PlayIllinois and PlayMichigan; 
• A fact sheet released this week by the World Health Organization on gambling, and the global impact of advertising and marketing on problem gambling;
• The layoffs involving journalists by gambling affiliates in 2024;
• The opportunities with the breakup of iGaming Ontario and the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario, and the call (once again) for both parties to be more transparent and also be voices for the regulated gaming industry in the province;
• Coverage of the industry by traditional media outlets since the Ontario regulated marketplace opened its doors in April 2022; 
• What the province’s licensed operators – and the regulators - have done well, and what they could do better; 
• And the motivation behind Briggs’s Fresh Waves podcast which features music you won’t hear on Top 40 radio.

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