Inside Ontario’s Regulated Online Casino Boom | The Walrus

Ontario's regulated online gambling market generated $82.7 billion in total wagers and $2.9 billion in gross gaming revenue in fiscal 2024-25, according to iGaming Ontario's own annual report — figures the agency describes as growth of over 30 percent from the prior year. A 2026 Ipsos study commissioned by iGaming Ontario and its provincial regulator found 91.1 percent of Ontario online gamblers now use licensed operators rather than offshore sites.

The piece, flagged as a paid post, credits the 2022 regulatory framework with pulling a grey market into the light, citing mandatory self-exclusion tools, deposit limits, and advertising standards that took effect as the market matured. It closes by directing readers to check the regulator's own operator directory to verify licensing.

Nowhere in the piece is there scrutiny of who commissioned the favorable survey, what the unregulated 9 percent looks like, or whether $82.7 billion in wagers might itself be worth examining rather than celebrating.

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