Author Archives: sol

Impulse Control Disorder

By sol | Published: January 27, 2011
ctvwinnipeg.ca A Winnipeg woman charged in a drunk-driving crash that seriously injured a man has blamed a prescription drug for leading to excessive drinking. Michael Pacheco, a City of Winnipeg worker, almost lost his legs after being hit and pinned between two vehicles in the crash in April 2008 near Main Street and Templeton Avenue. [...]
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Adrian MacNair: B.C. government gambling site goes up in smoke

By sol | Published: July 24, 2010
Adrian MacNair July 23, 2010 – 9:51 am The much-ballyhooed B.C. government gambling website, which cost the provincial government $7.3 million dollars in the hope it would increase gambling revenue by $100 million for the province, failed spectacularly within the first week. According to media reports, PlayNow.com was shut down within hours of launching when [...]
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HOW SICK CAN GAMBLING GET YOU?

By sol | Published: June 24, 2010
Philadelphia Inquirer Posted on Wed, Jun. 23, 2010 More on the human costs of legal gambling By Monica Yant Kinney Inquirer Columnist The bad dad who left his toddler in the car while he gambled at Parx Casino in Bensalem last week wasn’t the first and won’t be the last. Politicians and gaming execs hate [...]
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playing with numbers

By sol | Published: June 22, 2010
It is amazing how the lottery corporations play with mathematics and release misleading information The true odds of picking seven out of seven are one in 63 million. Because the tickets on the old Super Seven and the new Loto Max give you three series of numbers the corporation tells you that the odds are [...]
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Finally a government gets the message.

By sol | Published: April 8, 2010
France declares virtual poker machines too addictive to legalize French National Assembly has passed a bill to legalise online gambling. 4/6/10 – Despite determined left wing political resistance, the French National Assembly has passed a bill to legalise online gambling and open up the French market to international operators. VIRTUAL POKER MACHINES AND GAMES OF [...]
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THE CLASS ACTION SUIT AGAINST LOTO-QUEBEC or What should have been.

By sol | Published: March 30, 2010
On Friday August 2, 2002 the final documents were filed regarding the class action suit against Loto-Quebec on behalf of Jean Brochu and 119 000 other compulsive gamblers. The number of compulsive gamblers was arrived at by accepting the figures of Pauline Marois who admitted that there were 125, 000 compulsive gamblers in Quebec. 95% [...]
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Letter sent to editor of Montreal Gazette. Not published.

By sol | Published: March 25, 2010
Mike Boone demonstrated in his column today (Monday March 22/10) his knowledge of the PPMs and why Nancy Woods was fired by the CBC. It is most unfortunate that he didn’t use the same method for verifying why CJAD canceled Last Call With Sol instead of referring to it as ” a-middle-of the-night-who-the-heck is-listening? show” [...]
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Loto-Québec to pay for gamblers’ therapy Alternate headline: Lawyers win, victims lose.

By sol | Published: March 24, 2010
March 24, 2010 Loto-Québec to pay for gamblers’ therapy By CBC News Loto-Québec will pay for addiction therapy for thousands of compulsive gamblers in the province, after the gaming corporation reached an out-of-court deal in a decade-old class-action suit. Loto-Québec will pay for addiction therapy for thousands of compulsive gamblers in the province, after the [...]
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