Canada is going places now as the country took advantage of its IT cluster as well as the popularity of online gaming and launched playnow.com, a casino site for Canadian citizens.
This Canadian online casino was officially launched in April of 2012 in Manitoba and is operated in partnership with the British Columbia Lottery Corporation. At the beginning, the site only offered sports betting but has since then grown to include a whole range of casino games.
There are barely over 1.2 million people in Manitoba. Despite the low population, the province has become one of the main economic forces in Canada. The people of Manitoba already spend some 37 million Canadian dollars annually at unregulated international casino sites. Not to miss out on extra revenues, the local government has developed their own local online casino.
Playnow.com only allows local Manitoba players to gamble on the site: however, interstate poker tournaments have started to allow players from other Canadian regions. The revenues are used by the local government to support the community, provincial projects and charitable programs.