A recently conducted survey by researchers from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) and the University of Waterloo found that approximately 10 percent of teens in three Canadian provinces have gambled online in the last quarter.
In addition to this uptick of online gambling, it was reported that 42 percent of adolescents said they have gambled money or something of value in an offline or online gambling service.
Popular gambling activities included:
- A dare or challenge: 22 percent
- Instant-win or scratch tickets: 22 percent
- Games of skill (pool or darts, for example): 12 percent
- Offline sports pools: 9 percent
- Cards (poker and black jack): 9 percent
The legal gambling age in Canada is 19, with the exception of three provinces (In Alberta, Manitoba, and Quebec the legal age is 18). The ages apply to online and land-based gambling, according to Onlinegambling.ca. The regulations for online gambling vary from province to province, but most provinces are making online gambling more widely available to people of an appropriate age.
