Casinos in Canada are experiencing their first full year of uninterrupted play since 2019<\/h2>\n
\u201cPresently, we are testing [IT systems] and are now working to safely reopen our Ontario operations,\u201d said Rob Mitchell, Communications and Public Affairs Director at Gateway. “The reopening timeline depends on the success of the testing we\u2019re doing and the approval of regulatory bodies,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n
Casinos throughout Canada are currently experiencing their first full year of uninterrupted play since 2019 after being shut down as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, which began in March 2020.<\/p>\n
Paul Burns, the Chief Executive of the Canadian Gaming Association that represents the industry, said the cyberattack was unfortunate timing for casinos.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is an important time for us and there has been a positive feeling in the industry about how casinos are performing,\u201d he said. \u201cIt will be back and we believe customers will come back again. They came back after the pandemic, they will again. The pandemic proved we\u2019re resilient.\u201d<\/p>\n
Gate Way Casinos’ other Southwestern Ontario locations are in Chatham, Clinton, Hanover, Point Edward, Sarnia, and Woodstock. Other affected casinos include North Bay, Sault Ste. Marie, Sudbury, and Thunder Bay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Gateway Casinos is reopening its Ontario properties after nearly two weeks of shutdown because of a cyberattack. Fourteen of its Ontario casinos, including Casino Rama in Orillia, Gateway Casinos Innisfil and Playtime Casinos Wasaga Beach, have been closed since April 16 after a ransomware attack knocked out its servers. Gateway Casinos has reopened its Innisfil … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":4734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[37,38,40],"class_list":["post-4732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports-betting","tag-main-page","tag-news","tag-sports-betting"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n