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What’s the Latest: Online gambling more than doubles among young Montreal men, study finds
A study by Quebec public health researchers found that online gambling has more than doubled among young men in Montreal, despite a decline in overall adult gambling rates. Among the 8,500 adults surveyed, 39 per cent reported engaging in some form of gambling in 2025, which is 15 per cent fewer than in 2018 and 2002.
The study surveyed 8,500 adults in Montreal and found a 15 per cent decrease in the overall number of adults who gamble compared to 2018 and 2002. Additionally, Anne Elizabeth Lapointe, CEO of Maison Jean Lapointe, reported an increase in young men seeking help for online gambling addiction since the COVID pandemic.
Researchers in Quebec have warned that the surge in online gambling among young men poses significant risks, with Sylvia Kairouz stating, “the ease of accessing gambling sites through a phone can make it difficult for people to resist.” In response, Anne Elizabeth Lapointe, CEO of Maison Jean Lapointe, has called for stricter regulation of gambling advertising, suggesting that “gambling advertising needs to either be banned or more effectively regulated.”
What remains unclear — The study did not specify the percentage increase in online gambling among young men in Montreal.
Online gambling among young men in Montreal more than doubles, study finds
A recent study has revealed that online gambling among young men in Montreal has more than doubled, even as overall gambling rates among adults have decreased. Conducted by Quebec public health researchers, the study surveyed 8,500 adults in Montreal. It found that 39 per cent reported engaging in gambling in 2025, a decline of 15 per cent compared to 2018 and 2002.
The study highlights a worrying trend among younger men, particularly those aged 18 to 34, where the likelihood of gambling online has significantly increased. Sylvia Kairouz, a researcher from Concordia University and one of the study’s authors, commented on the ease of access to online gambling, noting, “When you just need to pick up your phone and push a button to gamble, that makes it very difficult to resist.”
Anne Elizabeth Lapointe, CEO of Maison Jean Lapointe, which provides treatment for gambling addiction, confirmed that more young men are seeking help for online gambling issues. “For the last two years now, we’ve seen kids coming to our office with a gambling addiction,” she said, adding that there has been a noticeable decline in cases related to traditional gambling venues like casinos.
Kairouz pointed to the proliferation of gambling advertisements as contributing to the normalisation of online betting among young people. The study indicated that 75 per cent of respondents would prefer fewer advertisements for gambling services. Kairouz called for improved regulations, stating, “Spain has done it. Belgium has done it. So I think the lack of regulation is one of the major problems now.”
Help is available for those affected by gambling-related issues across Canada. In Quebec, individuals can access confidential support via Gambling: Help and Referral at 514-527-0140 in Montreal or 1-800-461-0140 elsewhere in the province.
October 12, 2024
6:18 am
‘Cheer up, you caught the bad guy,’ says killer Virginia McCullough as she is arrested for murdering her parents
A woman who murdered her parents “in cold blood” before hiding them in makeshift tombs for four years told officers to “cheer up, you caught the bad guy” as she was arrested in her home.
Virginia McCullough, 36, poisoned her father John McCullough, 70, with prescription medication and fatally stabbed her mother Lois McCullough, 71, shortly afterwards in 2019.
She ran up large debts on credit cards in her parents’ names and after their deaths, she continued to spend their pensions until she was finally caught in 2023.
In body-worn video footage released by police, a handcuffed – and eerily calm – McCullough told officers: “I did know that this would kind of come eventually.
“It’s proper that I serve my punishment.”
She said she had slipped something into her father’s drink then put his body under a bed on the ground floor, and put her mother’s body in an upstairs wardrobe.
McCullough, having been arrested on suspicion of double murder, told an officer: “Cheer up, at least you’ve caught the bad guy.”
She added: “I know I don’t seem 100% evil.”
At the police station, she told officers where a kitchen knife was, which she described as a “murder weapon”, and a hammer which she said “will still have blood on it”.
McCullough, of Pump Hill, Chelmsford, Essex, was sentenced to life imprisonment on Friday with a minimum term of 36 years at Chelmsford Crown Court, after she admitted to their murders between 17 and 20 June 2019 at an earlier hearing at the same court.
Chelmsford Crown Court heard how she hid their bodies in makeshift tombs at the family home in Great Baddow in Essex, then told persistent lies to cover her tracks.
The court heard she cancelled family arrangements and frequently told doctors and relatives her parents were unwell, on holiday or away on lengthy trips.
But concerns over Mr and Mrs McCullough’s welfare were raised in September 2023 by a GP at their registered practice, and Essex County Council’s safeguarding team referred these to police.
The GP had not seen the couple for some time and said Mr McCullough had failed to collect medication and attend scheduled appointments. It was found McCullough had frequently cancelled appointments, using a range of excuses to explain her father’s absence.
Police said a missing persons investigation was initially launched and McCullough lied to officers, claiming her parents were travelling and would be returning in October.
It became a murder investigation, and when officers forced entry to the house in Pump Hill on September 15 2023, McCullough confessed that her parents’ bodies were in the house and that she had killed them.
Nicola Rice, a specialist prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service, said: “McCullough callously and viciously killed both of her parents before concealing their bodies in makeshift tombs within their home address.
“She spent the next four years manipulating and lying to family members, medical staff, financial institutions, and the police, spending her parents’ money and accruing large debts in their name.”
She added: “This was a truly disturbing case, which has left behind it a trail of devastation, and I can only hope that the sentence passed today will help those who loved and cared for Lois and John begin to heal.”
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November 23, 2024
8:25 am
Defense alliance NATO chief Mark Rutte has met US President-elect Donald Trump to discuss global security issues, according to a NATO spokesperson.
The meeting took place in Palm Beach, Florida.
During his first term as US president, 2017-2020, Trump pushed for European NATO countries to spend more on defense and described the alliance’s cost-sharing as unfair to the US.
Rutte took over as NATO chief from Norwegian Jens Stoltenberg in November.
Before taking office in January, Trump has nominated Pete Hegseth for the post of defense secretary, which has raised eyebrows among many allies.
Hegseth, 44, has served as an infantry captain in Iraq and Afghanistan, but has no senior military or government officer experience.
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Multiple missiles were fired in an airstrike towards a densely populated part of Lebanon’s capital early on Saturday.
The huge airstrike targeted Beirut’s Basta neighbourhood, and no prior warnings were given by the Israeli military. The largely residential area was struck last month.
At least one violent explosion was heard across the city, Reuters witnesses said, and plumes of smoke could be seen. Scenes of massive destruction at the site were shared online, including a massive crater in the ground.
“Beirut, the capital, woke up to a horrific massacre, as the Israeli enemy’s air force completely destroyed an eight-story residential building with five missiles on Al-Mamoun Street in Basta,” the state-run National News Agency reported.
The health ministry put the initial death toll at four, with 23 wounded. The number is expected to climb in the coming hours as search and rescue efforts continue.
It came after a long day of Israeli airstrikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs, which have been non-stop since last week.
The cross-border fighting between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group escalated into a full-blown war in mid-September.
Israel has bombed southern Lebanon, Beirut’s southern suburbs and the eastern Beqaa region, and has sent ground troops across the border. Hezbollah has continued to fire rockets deeper into Israel.
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