
Advocates push to ban gambling ads featuring athletes
Maria Nsue
25 min
News
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Sports betting ads featuring celebrities and athletes such as Connor McDavid and Wayne Gretzky are everywhere you look. But there are calls to ban them over concerns that they're drawing in too many young people. We hear from Brian Masse, the NDP MP for Windsor West in Ontario. His federal sports betting bill paved the way for legal online gambling in Canada. We also hear from Paul Burns, the president and CEO of the Canadian Gaming Association, and lecturer Raffaello Rossi, who studied how young people interact with gambling ads.
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Advocates push to ban gambling ads featuring athletes
Maria Nsue