20-Sep-06. Will U.S. go after online gambling? You can bet on it. National Post, FP2.

The CEOs of two British Internet gambling sites were arrested this summer when they were changing planes on U.S. soil. The act of accepting bets online is legal in Britain but illegal in the United States. The author of the article points to a number of other instances where the U.S. has exerted its cross-border influence on Canadians. Examples cited were alcohol during the U.S. Prohibition years, uranium production during the Cold War, and companies involvemed with Cuban nickel industry in the 1990s.