Add Offshore Sportsbook Bodog Exits Manitoba after Uncontested Court Order
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<br>Bodog is bowing out of Manitoba.<br>
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<br>The ". eu" domain for the overseas sports wagering and gambling establishment gambling website now notes the province as one of three in Canada from which it does decline gamers.<br>
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<br>The other 2 provinces are Quebec and Nova Scotia, the latter of which was just [limited](https://propertybaajaar.com/agent/claudetomaszew/) by Bodog last September.<br>
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<br>Bodog's current addition of Manitoba to its "limited areas" follows a court in the province recently buying the [companies](https://l.igreentransforma.com.br/retaslate41023) behind the Antigua and Barbuda-based online [betting site](http://47.92.23.1958418/brigida77z0853/the-bet9ja-promo-code-2026-is-yohaig/wiki/The-BET-9ja-promotional-code-for-2026-is-YOHAIG) to stop operating in such a way that is available to residents, and to [cease marketing](http://www.annunciogratis.net/author/caleb30419) to them also.<br>
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<br>Bodog states it is no longer accepting players from Manitoba, which follows a court in the province essentially informing the offshore sportsbook to knock it off. pic.twitter.com/PV2FvhyD49<br>
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<br>The injunction against Bodog in Manitoba was effectively looked for by the province's lottery and video gaming corporation, on behalf of the Canadian Lottery Coalition (CLC). The advocacy group's members are government-owned lotteries from provinces across Canada, minus [Alberta](http://rachita-impletita.ro/ro/blog/5_intretinerea-si-curatirea-impletiturilor-din-.html) and Ontario.<br>
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<br>Getting an injunction against Bodog, which has actually long been available and [popular](https://noithattanminh.com/goi-y-cach-thiet-ke-noi-that-can-ho-chung-cu-dep-an-tuong/) to Canadian gamblers, and the operator stating it will limit access in response to the court order, is a win for those lottos.<br>
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<br>It's also similar to what has actually taken place in the U.S., where numerous states have actually just recently handled to oust overseas operator Bovada from their [backyards](http://113.177.27.2002033/jeremiahfairba).<br>
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<br>Lotto Six-Forty-Enough<br>
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<br>Canada's so-called "grey market" for online gaming (where business might be regulated abroad or outside a province, however not by the province itself) has actually long taken on government-owned entities like Manitoba Liquor and Lotteries Corp.'s PlayNow website. That site is the only authorized one in the province.<br>
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<br>However, the CLC and its members have been working to raise awareness of and go after unregulated operators, including by intervening with issues in a court recommendation in [Ontario](https://wvd.org/about-my-story/) regarding shared iGaming liquidity.<br>
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<br>It was throughout the hearing for that referral that the coalition's lawyers were asked if an overseas operator had actually ever been brought to justice in Canada. This was apparently not the case till the Bodog case in Manitoba.<br>
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<br>Lacking shades of 'grey'<br>
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<br>The grey market is now getting squeezed like never ever before in Canada.<br>
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<br>While Alberta is approaching something comparable, [Ontario](https://www.pitanet.co.jp/keeper/blog/?p=36) is the only province in Canada that licenses private-sector operators of online sportsbooks and gambling establishments to take bets from its locals.<br>
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<br>A few of those operators were formerly "grey" entities before [offered](https://xyzzy.company/git/andersonbutton) the opportunity to transition into Ontario's brand-new, regulated iGaming market. That has enabled Ontario to move more than 80% of all online gambling in the province onto locally controlled apps and websites.<br>
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<br>Bodog, however, remains unregulated by Canada's most populous province. This just recently resulted in the operator being singled out by the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario as a bookie that media business ought to stop promoting.<br>
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<br>Taken to (obedience) school<br>
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<br>Meanwhile, the [non-Alberta](https://crmthebespoke.a1professionals.net/employer/the-bet-9ja-promo-code-this-2026-is-yohaig) and non-Ontario lottos are pursuing [unregulated operators](http://129.154.52.11820000/ysadevin266027/the-bet-9ja-promotion-code-2026-is-yohaig/wiki/The+Bet+9ja+promo+code+2026+is+YOHAIG) in their own method, such as with the court injunction. In Manitoba, the lottery game union had actually alleged Bodog was running unlawfully in the province.<br>
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<br>The injunction that was subsequently issued by Court of King's Bench Judge Jeffrey Harris on May 26 also requires Bodog to put in place "geo-blocking technology" on its.eu website (the one where users can wager real cash) to stop Manitobans from accessing its products and services.<br>
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<br>No orders were provided specifically for Bodog's ". net" website (and the judge's factors have not yet been launched), which says it is for "free play" and "amusement functions just."<br>
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<br>Even so, both the operator's. eu and.net sites were called by the judge in the order as having no right to offer online Manitoba sports wagering or casino games in the province. Bodog did not show as much as defend itself in the Manitoba court.<br>
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