It’s a wrap: Personal perspectives on the first New Horizons conference

Horizon Conference 2013 (23) The first New Horizons in Responsible Gambling conference has now come and gone and for those of us engaged in its organization, it’s time to take stock and look at what we learned.

Initial indicators suggest it was seen as highly successful by delegates, speakers, sponsors, and our organizing team:

  • Despite a major storm affecting air traffic in/out of Toronto on day one, all of our speakers made it to Vancouver and presented as scheduled;
  • Although the schedule was jam-packed, almost every event started on time;
  • Lots of comments about the excellent quality of the venue (Vancouver’s Trade & Convention Centre), the conference hotel (the Pan Pacific Hotel), food and service;
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RGAW + New Horizons in RG Conference = 1 busy month

RGAMThere’s been lots going on this month for BCLC’s GameSense team what with the launch of Responsible Gambling Awareness Weeks (RGAW) in five separate BC communities, and on-going planning for the New Horizons in Responsible Gambling Conference.

RGAW events took place in Kamloops, Prince George, Vernon, the West Shore communities on Vancouver Island, and this week we wrap it up with events in Langley.  The objectives for these weeks are pretty simple: raise awareness of issues around gambling, of the prevention programs undertaken by both the Province and BCLC, and finally the resources available to both problem gamblers and those affected by problem gambling.

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Using GameSense makes sense to players

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Excerpt from BCLC’s Responsible Gambling Messaging Graphic Standards

Not too many years ago, every gambling-related advertisement in British Columbia included the responsible gambling (RG) tagline “Know your limit.  Play within it.

And that was a problem.

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Season’s Greetings from all of us at BCLC

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[Guest Post] A Joy to Give, But Not To Kids

This week’s poster, Darren Groth, is by day one of BCLC’s GameSense Team Leaders, but by night and many weekends is an award-winning published novelist. 

Cool Sign 848x480T’was the night before Christmas, when all through the house
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
In hopes that St Nicholas soon would be filling them with lottery tickets and scratch-and-wins and pull tabs and keno entries…

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