Browsing by Author "Wolfert, Johanna"

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    Alberta Gambling Research Institute Conference 2020: Freedom, Justice and Sovereignty in Gaming
    (Alberta Gambling Research Institute, 2020-03) Cowie, Megan E.; Gorenko, Julie; Leota, Josh J.; Russell, Gillian; Trottier, Maegan; Sharif-Razi, Maryam; Wilcox, Sean; Laskowski, Catherine; Leonard, Carrie A.; Violo, V (Toria); Murch, W. Spencer; Leslie, R. Diandra; Stewart, Sherry H.; Dijkema, Brian; Wolfert, Johanna; Hudson Breen, Rebecca
    The Alberta Gambling Research Institute's 19th Annual Conference "Freedom, Justice and Sovereignty in Gaming" was scheduled to take place in March, 2020 but was cancelled due to the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency. A selection of conference presentations and research posters that were accepted for presentation at the event have been made available with the permission of the authors.
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    Pressing Its Luck: How Ontario Lottery and Gaming Can Work For, Not Against, Low-Income Households
    (Cardus, 2020-06-10) Dijkema, Brian; Wolfert, Johanna
    In this paper, we tell the story of Ontario’s involvement with gambling and explore how it got hooked. The state has not always been the leading dealer in gambling or user of the revenue it produces. In fact, gaming’s path from an illegal and suppressed activity to a legal one, and its eventual transmogrification into a lean, mean, revenue machine having the government’s full support and encouragement, was circuitous and filled with ironies and unintended consequences.
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    Royally Flushed. Reforming Gambling to Work For, Not Against, British Columbia
    (Cardus, 2020-07-15) Dijkema, Brian; Wolfert, Johanna
    In Royally Flushed: Reforming gambling to work for, not against, British Columbia, think tank Cardus shows how the lowest-income households in B.C. pay the provincial government an estimated 4% of their annual incomes through gambling – twice the proportion that the wealthiest British Columbians hand over to the government though games of chance. B.C.’s income tax system, by contrast, taxes the wealthiest families at nearly six times the rate of the province’s poorest.
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    Royally Flushed: Reforming gambling to work for, not against, Alberta
    (Cardus, 2020-07-15) Dijkema, Brian; Wolfert, Johanna
    In Royally Flushed: Reforming gambling to work for, not against, Alberta, think tank Cardus shows how the lowest-income households in Alberta pay the provincial government an estimated 7% of their annual incomes through gambling – triple the proportion that the wealthiest Albertans hand over to the government though games of chance. Alberta’s income tax system, by contrast, taxes the wealthiest families at nearly five times the rate of the province’s poorest.
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    Royally Flushed: Reforming Gambling to Work for, Not Against, Atlantic Canada
    (Cardus, 2020-07-15) Dijkema, Brian; Wolfert, Johanna
    In Royally Flushed: Reforming Gambling to Work for, Not Against, Atlantic Canada, think tank Cardus shows how the lowest-income households in the Atlantic provinces pay their provincial governments an estimated 4% of their annual incomes through gambling – twice the proportion that the wealthiest Atlantic Canadians hand over to governments though games of chance. Atlantic provinces’ income tax systems, by contrast, tax the wealthiest families at nearly 10 times the rate of the region’s poorest.