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Alberta Making Progress Towards Ontario-Like Online Sports Betting, IGaming Market Alberta is putting the pieces in location to establish its own Ontario-like system for online sports wagering and internet gambling establishment betting. The Western Canadian province would be the very first to follow Ontario's example, and it might do so by next year, according to some in the betting market. Bruce Caughill, managing director for Canada at BetRivers, had this to state throughout a panel at last week's SBC Summit North America conference in New Jersey. It's been intriguing to see it unfold, due to the fact that there is a desire in the Alberta government to make this occur the other day, however I believe they're beginning to understand that to make things occur even quickly takes a while. Laying a legal foundation Caughill kept in mind legislation was tabled last month in Alberta that might permit the provincial government to develop a separate entity to "perform and handle" online gambling. That entity would remain in addition to the provincially owned Alberta Gaming, Liquor & Cannabis Commission, or AGLC. AGLC is presently the only authorized iGaming operator in Alberta via its Play Alberta platform. If Alberta were to embrace an Ontario-like system, though, AGLC could be simply among lots of regulated operators in the province, which has a population size comparable to that of Kentucky and Oregon. Ontario produced an extra "conduct and manage" firm of its own, iGaming Ontario, before launching its competitive market for online gambling. Bill 16, the legislation consisting of the new powers to "perform and manage," the legal term for controlling gaming in Canada, was passed by a committee of the entire in the Alberta legislature on Tuesday. Caughill said he anticipates provincial lawmakers to approve it "quickly," which would put 2025 in play for a launch of a competitive iGaming market in the province.