When I first saw the headline, I made a pretty good guess as to where this was going: someone sees a need to stifle the competition. In this case, the competition’s approach to gambling is alleged to be bad because it doesn’t take as much physical effort as ours. That’s quite a feat to apply the Marxist labor theory of value to gaming.
The Mississaugas of Scugog Island First Nation own the Great Blue Heron Casino.
When asked why she feels so strongly against online gambling advertisements considering the casino, LaRocca said, “You have to make an effort to get up and visit a land based (casino) facility.
My experience and College(honors) education was deemed no longer sufficient to the Labor Market by our government officials…go figure…all this education that I can use only illegally should I take any jobs that I’m not registered as a business.
Coulda been a ‘Master Carpenter’ with the huge experience in carpentry, woodworking, logging, sawmilling, timberframes, log homes, etc…
I’m okay by it though!
Although Chief LaRocca obviously has a lot of self -interest in her position, she is also correct. We’ve made it extraordinarily easy to gamble, and for those with addictive personalities, that’s trouble. It’s like an alcoholic trying to stay sober when there’s booze throughout the house.
Old people need to get up put down the laptop, come on in to the Casino;
Spend the day spinning the wheels with First fisted Nation, Getting 75-25 percentage. If I did gamble I think, stay home get 50-50 on my phone .
I up with that. And I am f*****g old. I do not gamble on line. I like to go out and have a beer or two, or three, or whatever. I know the odds are stupid but hey, if ya can’t afford it, do not do it.
Wait until you find out about loot boxes and gacha games.
At some point we have to stop handwringing and citing “peer-reviewed” studies and accept that either adults are responsible for their own choices and actions, or they aren’t.
Ok km, she’s right about losing her customers. Don’t gaf.
LaRocca’s comment is irrelevant and contradictory. That is, if, we are to adhere to climate crisis ideology.
I would hazard a guess that most of the casino’s customers will drive, smoke and drink. Eating is also a possibility. All are creating large carbon footprints. (YAY!!!)
So this is simply another nail in the coffin for the left. Clueless as always.
I think if its a Native casino, you get a carbon credit to offset the smoking & driving.
Maybe there should be an obstacle course that casino patrons have to pass to gain entrance so that it takes even MORE effort to go to a physical casino. That would make it a more ethical gambling establishment, right?
“for those with addictive personalities, that’s trouble”
And why should that be our problem? Let Darwin work.
On the other hand, legalized gambling has ruined televised sports.
we used to get ads about gasoline and chicks in bikinis selling beer,
now we get some bozo sitting at a desk, pretending he’s analyzing the game but telling us about who is +150 and -200.
and if not him we get Wayne (how low you have sunk) Gretzky with his stupidity.
“While a decision has yet to be made, Burns says that before a celebrity can appear in a gambling advertisement, “operators must submit all TV commercials to thinkTV, (a marketing and research association) for clearance.””
Scams and rent-seeking all the way down…. No wonder our “productivity” is in the toilet.
I’ve commented on this once before. Gretzky and McDavid are pushing a vice that’s obviously directed at our youth. Gretzky should know better as he has a son in law with a weapons grade alcohol problem.
But hey, you can never have enough money, amirite Wayne? Ahole. Literally hundreds of products who’d line up for his endorsement but he chose this. SMH.
And you just have to know the world is upside down when you get an ethics lecture from a Casino operator. In my opinion they’re going the way of the telephone booth so she best get used to it.
You can’t stop what’s comin’.
Nothing ever goes back in Pandora’s box. Not even clinton.
I know the guy who designed that Casino, he was there for it’s entire development. He said he was speaking with the first nation elders involved in the project. They’re not dumb, they have a very long term outlook.
“We’re going to make lots of money with this casino over the years, and we’re going to use that money to sue to get all of our land back (From the colonists)”. The land he is / was speaking of is the Greater Toronto Area.
Their land, Ha !!!!
It’s their land because 500 years ago or a thousand years ago 30 or 40 of them walked through it on their way to a field that had 20 deer on it of which they killed all of them. Or maybe because they were running for their lives through that land to get away from some rival tribe that was out to scalp them.
They need to get it through their thick skulls that there never was enough of them in existence to claim all those lands.
Y’know, for a demographic that makes up 5% of population, they sure own a lot of land.
Very true . All levels of government own 89%.
So what’s left?
This land is your land, this land is my land
agreed, you should do some research on what claims have already been filed, but there is one area that I disagree with, it is that they want the land, they want the money not the land, and it is billions and will be ongoing, like rent
Where’s Frankie “Lefty” Rosenthal when you need him?
They want you to acknowledge that this is the traditional casino lands of the missisaugas
Acknowledged.
Needs some grave discovery teams in there asap.
Well, I don’t gamble, and I don’t buy anything on Reserves. So I don’t have a dog in this fight.
Monopolies for your friends.. IMO your chances of being murdered go through the roof if you hang out with gamblers.. You know, they may or may not get caught.. A building full of people looking for a shortcut is not a nice place to be..
The Mississaugas of Scugog Island First Nation were not a ‘first nation’. They were the last. Stop coddling them. Stop paying them. Let them be. They have truths to share, when the white men are done playing with them for points in Ottawa.