Questions

[GoldenTaint]

What is the legal status of sports betting in Canada? Is it fully legal, or sort of a gray area like in the U.S.?

Second question - are there any services in Canada (as there are in Nevada) that will provide you a Canadian address for a fee?

 

[EXTRAPOLATER]

On the first Q...""illegal"" (notice the scare quotes).
i.e. not endorsed by the bureaucratic tools but a court of law would subject any complainant to lithium, if yaknowhatimean.

Slowly they've made it more difficult to use credit cards to fund, and even Western Union adds a sin fee to any for any transactions to and from.

Not sure on the second Q but I would go heavy at -666 that the answer is yes.

How is Wall St. different?
Maybe once.
Not anymore.
They should leave us alone.
I'm sure that Adam Smith would agree.

 

[GoldenTaint]

On the first Q...""illegal"" (notice the scare quotes).
i.e. not endorsed by the bureaucratic tools but a court of law would subject any complainant to lithium, if yaknowhatimean.

Thanks, E. I guess they dont prosecute betters but go after bookmakers, maybe, like in U.S. I don't recall any article on Canadian authorities going after people like they do here in certain cases.

Not sure on the second Q but I would go heavy at -666 that the answer is yes.

I've done a little research a couple time, but never seen any such service, hence the question.

How is Wall St. different?
Maybe once.
Not anymore.
They should leave us alone.
I'm sure that Adam Smith would agree.

Yep.

 

[kickserv]

I have never heard of one Canuck arrested for betting. Not that it hasn't happened, but not once I have heard or read anything. Also very rare for a "gambling ring" to get charged. Off top of my head I can only think of maybe 3 or 4 times in past ten years where I have read of some bookie getting busted.

Considering that anywhere in Canada you can walk into a 7-11 and place a sports bet, the cops don't exactly go hardcore on the sports gamblers.

As for Canadian banks "clamping down" like they do in the USA. I have never ever had a problem, never. I know of three Canadian companies that rely heavy on "offshore transactions" and they seem just fine. Yes I am sure there are problems, but nothing like the shit in the USA.

To put it in perspective, I had a bank wire from a sportsbook. The bank manager said congrads when he found out it came from a sportsbook. Yep, that's right he congradulated me. Can you imagine what a bank manager at a US bank would say if you said the wire was from a sportsbook in Costa Rica:scared :00hour

Simply put, many Canucks could give two fucks if ya gamble on sports or not. Not to say that it is a "free for all" but you don't have to "cloak and dagger" like ya do in the USA.

 

[IE]

RCMP is watching all the time, especially in light of the provinces trying to wiggle into the sports/poker online venture (not the sports lottery that is purchased at the corner store)... pressure could be on with gathering up information and put together to bring down online sites and banking at a later date.

 

[kickserv]

IE........

"trying to wiggle into the sports/poker online venture"

Just a matter of time until ALL provinces have online sportsbetting......some close already.

RCMP may try to stop it......but the horses like the action so RCMP will be useless:142smilie

 

[EXTRAPOLATER]

IE...with utmost respect...can you provide some verification--news shiite or otherwise--of this claim. Not so much that I believe otherwise but I would like to know what parameters are pervasive close to home.

As mentioned, I can only relate my experience.
Slightly inconvenient but overcomable.
(would be a good title for a porno, perhaps)

RCMP is insignificant,
unless I am unawares,
which wouldn't be a stretch.