A Historical Overview of Legalized Sports Gambling in Canada
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Although gambling on sporting events has been a practice since ancient times, government-regulated single-event sports betting is a relatively new phenomenon in Canada. While strictly prohibited and generally considered unthinkable in earlier times, gambling in professional sports is omnipresent today (e.g., sponsorships, broadcasts), and it generates vast sources of revenue for teams, their respective leagues and provincial and federal governments through taxation revenues. The authors of this paper do not advocate for legalized sport gambling in Canada, but more accurately endeavour to explore the seismic shift and historic growth of legalized sports gambling in the country. In addition to chronicling the economic benefits that the practice has brought to the sports industry, the gambling establishments, and the federal and provincial governments, the authors document the negative elements associated with legalized sports gambling (e.g., addictions, financial hardships, and mental and physical health impacts). Regardless of one’s opinion on the appropriateness of legalized sports gambling in Canada, the practice appears to be deeply embedded in society and is destined to continue. Keywords: sports gambling, Canada, history, legislation
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it