Video lottery terminal
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Search complete. 29 mentions across 9 episodes found for "Video lottery terminal".
Oct 9, 2026
Rob CherniakGUEST
think we have to start remembering that even when
Bruce KiddGUEST
VLTs
Rob CherniakGUEST
were being launched 30, 35 years ago now, sports gambling was one of those issues where the leagues were vehement.
Rob CherniakGUEST
They did not want to take part.
9 MINS LATER
Jim TothHOST
I got a couple of texts here.
Jim TothHOST
I want to get to Scott says, hi, Jim, online gambling sites seem to have new ways of confirmation of age, at least prevent minors from participating.
Jim TothHOST
Another texter says in regards to your program on gambling, no different, no difference government involvement with weed, liquor, tobacco, as well as gambling, six 49 lotto, max government income in this province comes from all these, especially casino VLTs and sports betting.
Jim TothHOST
So it's the alternative to tax increases.
Rob ChernickGUEST
... actually, 1995.
Rob ChernickGUEST
So I grew up alongside that, and it was just always in the back of my head that we had lots of people who were at the casino, at the VLTs.
Rob ChernickGUEST
And so when I moved into journalism, I had noticed nobody really looked at how that, uh, how that affected us over time.
Rob ChernickGUEST
So back when it was the 25th anniversary in 2020, I started doing some reporting on Nova Scotia, and over time broadened to look at different parts of the country, including, uh, Newfoundland and Labrador in some of my investigative work, and, uh, that's how I ended up with the book today.
Rob ChernickGUEST
And when I asked the government, uh, why, they kind of tiptoed around it.
Rob ChernickGUEST
So I think it's just important to know that this expansion keeps happening and people aren't necessarily looking at this data and making decisions based on that.
Brian CallahanHOST
Well, th- they look at the profit margins, you know? I mean, Atlantic Lottery Corporation, uh, you know, the lobby for years to, you know, the problem with VLTs.
Brian CallahanHOST
You know, people thought that's how, that's how bad it'll get, you know, VLTs.
Shane HewittHOST
I have some adult friends, of course.
Shane HewittHOST
They like to play the VLTs, the slot machines and all that stuff.
Shane HewittHOST
And, you know, they never tell you how much they lose.
Shane HewittHOST
They always tell you how much they win.
Maria DoulisGUEST
Yeah, the Comptroller de Napoli has really been studying and monitoring the expansion of gaming activities in New York over the last decade.
Maria DoulisGUEST
So New York is actually among eight states that offers the most type of gaming activities, right? So there's interactive sports betting, there's the lottery, we have casinos, VLTs, so a number of different types of activities.
Maria DoulisGUEST
This report focused in particular on mobile sports betting.
Maria DoulisGUEST
And what the comptroller's office has found over time is that as these new activities are authorized, they tend to provide an initial bump in revenue, and then they sort of peter out.
Samuel TrappHOST
One.
Samuel TrappHOST
They have no communications between themselves and the Attorney General, the Department of Public Safety, or the Alcohol Tobacco Control loonies that deals with VLTs or what's so-called illegal gambling under Chapter 572, the chaos statute, let's call it.
Samuel TrappHOST
And because they don't describe anything in any in any version that anybody with any reasonable intelligence could go in and go, well, that there's illegal, you know, like Hanoi has done.
Samuel TrappHOST
She just goes out and says it's all illegal.
7 MINS LATER
Samuel TrappHOST
We spent a little bit of time on the phone.
Samuel TrappHOST
I said, look, I'm just a curious, you know, person trying to work together with you and my main focus is whether or not The county of X that you are the person in charge of the records for, at least in the sheriff's department, is itself going after these machines and declaring them illegal in the county.
Samuel TrappHOST
Now, at this time, I already knew that VLTs in this county are prevalent, especially in charitables, but they also have special, they have different game rooms.
Samuel TrappHOST
There are game rooms around the city.
Samuel TrappHOST
And so the counties, I try to group them into, uh, uh, two or three locations.
Samuel TrappHOST
One, they have no communications between themselves and the attorney general, the Department of Public Safety, or the Alcohol Tobacco Control loonies, um, that, uh, deals with, uh, VLTs or, uh, what so-called illegal gambling under, uh, Chapter 572, the chaos statute, let's call it.
Samuel TrappHOST
And, uh, [laughs] 'cause they don't describe anything in any, in any version that anybody with any reasonable intelligence could go in and go, "Well, that there is illegal," you know? Or like, uh, Hanaway has done.
Samuel TrappHOST
She just goes out and says, "It's all illegal." Yeah, well, that's not what the statute says.
7 MINS LATER
Samuel TrappHOST
We went through that.
Samuel TrappHOST
We spent a little bit of time on the phone.
Samuel TrappHOST
I said, "Look, I'm, I'm just a curious, you know, person trying to work together with you, and my main focus is whether or not the county of X that you are the person in charge of the, the records for, at least in the sheriff's department, is itself going after these machines and declaring them illegal in the county." Now, at this time, I already knew that VLTs in this county are prevalent, especially in charitables, but they also have special-- They have different game rooms.
Samuel TrappHOST
There are game rooms around the city that, uh, these games are in the city, and these games are still in a couple of, of C stores and gas stations, although they're frightened, you know, to death, and a lot of them have taken them out.
speaker_4CORRESPONDENT
With money being tight, that's not my, the first thing I'm gonna spend my money on.
speaker_3CORRESPONDENT
Liquor & Lotteries isn't just taking in money from alcohol and cannabis sales, but casinos, lotteries, and VLTs as well.
speaker_3CORRESPONDENT
The corporation delivered a $724 million profit to the Manitoba government, a $6 million drop from last year.
Tyler GlenHOST
They still made money, a lot of money, thanks to cannabis.
Samuel TrappHOST
I think I've done some, some, uh, significant research on, uh, something, and I got something in the mail yesterday that, uh, I've been waiting for 'cause it's really cool.
Samuel TrappHOST
And, uh, it j- uh, what I'm, what I've been analyzing over the last month for this is, uh, changes in what's happening, um, um, uh, nationally on these, uh, video lottery terminals, VLTs, and stuff like that.
Samuel TrappHOST
I've really been looking into it, and there's been some commentary about, uh, uh, by our, by our illustrious and esteemed, uh, colleague, the attorney general of the State of Missouri, that people are going to jail.
Samuel TrappHOST
We're gonna start doing...