

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: PUBlic Professor Series | Dr. Robert Williams | Legalized Gambling in Canada: Winners and Losers
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 26 Mar, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Thu, 26 Mar, 2026 at 09:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Legalized Gambling in Canada:
Winners and Losers
Dr. Robert Williams
Thursday, March 26 | 7 - 9 p.m.
Sandman Signature Lethbridge Lodge

Who’s really cashing in on gambling and who’s in the red?

Beginning with a brief historical overview of how and when it was legalized in Canada, this talk will explore how gambling has functioned over time in our country. Topics will include who the primary providers are, revenue for different types, payback ratios for each type (they are all bad!), population participation levels and general attitudes towards gambling.

While there have been major beneficiaries of legalized gambling (provincial governments being the biggest winners), there are also those who have been negatively impacted, as well as ethical dilemmas that have arisen because of the practice.

Dr. Robert Williams will explore all of this and more, concluding with a look to the future, as he explores how the integration of AI might impact legalized gambling in Canada.

About Dr. Robert Williams

Dr. Robert Williams is a clinical psychologist and professor in the Addictions Counselling program in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Lethbridge. He is also a Research Coordinator with the Alberta Gambling Research Institute.

Dr. Williams provides frequent consultation to government, industry, the media and public interest groups; and regularly gives expert witness testimony on the impacts of gambling. He is highly published and one of the world’s leading authorities in the areas of prevention and etiology of problem gambling, online gambling, the socioeconomic impacts of gambling, the proportion of gambling revenue deriving from problem gamblers, Indigenous gambling and the population assessment of problem gambling.

Dr. Williams was the principal investigator for the recently completed first national study of gambling in Canada (AGRI National Project, ANP-1) as well as being the principal investigator for the current follow-up national study (ANP-2).

The 2025-26 PUBlic Professor Series is presented by the ULethbridge Senate.

We gratefully acknowledge the additional generous support of Dr. Dennis Connolly (LLD ’17), Knud Petersen, Dave and Kathy Greenwood, Dr. Michelle Helstein, Dr. Digvir and Manju Jayas, Deborah Lucas and Dr. Dena McMartin.
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## Event venue details

- **city**: Lethbridge
- **state**: AB
- **country**: Canada
- **location**: Sandman Signature Lethbridge Lodge
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- **full address**: Sandman Signature Lethbridge Lodge, 320 Scenic Drive S.,Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Thu, 26 Mar, 2026 at 07:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Sandman Signature Lethbridge Lodge, 320 Scenic Drive S.,Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
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  - **A:** University of Lethbridge
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
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