9-Nov-06. Like it or not, gaming is an issue. Lethbridge Herald, A6.

This editorial examines Alberta’s growing gaming industry and suggests that a public debate on gambling policy is more than 15 years overdue. It notes that an AADAC policy statement on gambling issued earlier this year stated that about five per cent of Albertans have moderate to severe problems related to gambling. The author writes that the provincial government’s allocation of less than half a per cent of its gaming revenue to prevention, research and treatment does not absolve it of its responsibility to mitigate social damage.