It was revealed this week that during 2007 Canadians spent five times more money on bets than they did 15 years before. The report prepared by Statistics Canada shows that residents of the Prairie Provinces were the ones that spent the most on wagers. On average, each Canadian spent $524 on gaming.
Profits from casinos, lotteries, slot machines and lotto rose to $13.6 billion in 2007, $...