19-Oct-06. Ontario moves to end illegal Web gambling. National Post, A2.

Gerry Phillips, Ontario’s Minister of Government Services, will table a bill of amendments to Ontario’s Consumer Protection Act, including a section aimed at banning media organizations from running ads by gambling Web sites. A ministry spokesperson said all Web sites that take money bets from Canadians are illegal under the Criminal Code because the provinces have exclusive authority over all forms of gambling. Legal experts say recent U.S. actions and those of Ontario are similar in that neither government has made Internet gambling illegal outright, but both have put a damper on the industry through indirect actions against it.