Dave Briggs
Briggs has appeared on multiple CTV stations, plus CP24 and TVO. He is often quoted by The Canadian Press for his professional opinion about the growth of Canada’s gambling sector.
He currently works as Catena Media’s managing editor for playcanada.com and playmichigan.com.
Before joining PlayCanada, Briggs spent more than 25 years as a writer and editor covering North American horse racing. For 18 years, he was the editor of The Canadian Sportsman, covering the harness racing industry. He also spent more than five years as the editor of Canadian Thoroughbred magazine. He holds a master’s degree in journalism from Western University and was a 2018 inductee into the Communicators’ Corner of the US Harness Racing Hall of Fame. He has won 26 national writing awards for his coverage of the horse racing industry.
Beyond a deep passion for family and music, Briggs has a mostly tragic, lifelong love of Detroit sports teams. The LaSalle, Ontario native has long lived in the Lake Erie beach town of Port Stanley, Ontario with his wife, Laura, and their beloved Vizsla named California.
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With the release of the OLG’s annual report we now know that Ontario’s online gambling revenue grew 54.5% to over $3 billion in Year 2 alone.
iGaming Ontario’s favourable cost to entry has led more than 85% of formerly-illegal gambling sites over to the regulated market.
For two decades, horse racing has offered legal, common betting pools beyond Ontario’s borders. It could be a precedent for poker and DFS.
Deloitte’s analysis concludes Ontario’s iGaming sector supported 2,863 more jobs and produced $479 million more in tax revenue than year one.
Ontario’s online gambling revenue grew 71% to $2.4 billion in year two. Even in US dollars, that’s better than year two for PA, MI and NJ.
A PlayCanada analysis found only 2.9% of the ads shown during the Super Bowl were for Ontario sportsbooks — and all but one were for FanDuel.
With the Super Bowl days away, a PlayCanada analysis finds Ontario’s online sportsbooks took in the fifth most bets on the continent in 2023.
With oil prices slumping, Alberta may struggle to balance its budget. It could drive important revenue by legalizing online gambling.
An expanded and rebranded Great Canadian Casino Resort Toronto likely should have waited until more was complete before opening its doors.