Blackie Sherrod, sportscaster In 1892, the Criminal Code of Canada declared a complete ban on all gambling activities, But as Suzanne Morton points out in her social history At Odds: Gambling and Canadians, 1919- 1969, the law of the land and the actual behaviour of the populace didn’t always coincide. [...] Still, the “official” social consensus was that the gambling world was populated by colourful, sometimes dangerous, characters operating on the shady side of the law, a world which upright citizens, devoted to the virtues of thrift and hard work, would be well advised to avoid. [...] Professor Garry Smith of the University of Alberta, who has been studying gambling for 25 years, examined the role of governments in a presentation to the Governing the Gambling Industry: New Directions Seminar sponsored by the Key Centre on Ethics, Law and Justice at Australia’s Griffith University in January 2003. [...] The new channel will compete with the already existing Casino and Gaming TV Canada network (CGTV) which bills itself, somewhat breathlessly, as “your 24 hour VIP pass to the international world of PLAY… where the glamour … the glitter… the fun and fantasy of the Casino and Gaming lifestyle is as close as your remote control!”(3) So, although much of the research done on the impacts of gambling foc [...] He adds, “The gambling industry and the government like to view gambling as an individualistic behaviour to be explained in terms of the psychology and pathology of individuals.
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