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Rob Csernyik

Rob Csernyik is a journalist and writer who has written about gambling for Broadview, Chatelaine and TVO among other outlets. His 2022 Michener-Deacon fellowship project was an investigation into the link between gambling and suicide in Canada.

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Doug Ford’s Big Wager on Online Gambling

The province’s three-year-old online casino market, iGaming Ontario, is already bringing in billions of dollars. The Tories are betting the revenues outweigh the human costs.

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