Last week’s top sports betting news: O (finally) Canada Canada narrowly missed a trip to the LSR sin bin but the bill that allows single-game sports betting in Canada finally passed through Parliament.
C-218 is on its way to the Governor General to become law after the Senate passed the bill, 57-20, on Tuesday.
Keep an eye on the stock of Score Media & Gaming, which operates theScore Bet sportsbook. CEO John Levy is bullish on his company’s prospects, he noted in a statement after the passage:
“theScore is Canada’s leading digital sports media brand and we are eager to bring our award-winning mobile sportsbook, theScore Bet, to fans on our home turf. We have been actively preparing for the expansion of online sports betting and iGaming in our home province of Ontario, which is expected to commence later this year, and we are very favorably positioned to succeed given our mobile betting experience and vast active user base.”
Plenty of companies followed up with additional praise for the passage.