Bodog is bowing out of Manitoba.
The ".eu" domain for the offshore sports betting and casino gambling site now lists the province as one of three in Canada from which it does not accept players.
The other two provinces are Quebec and Nova Scotia, the latter of which was only restricted by Bodog last September.
Bodog’s recent addition of Manitoba to its “restricted regions” follows a court in the province recently ordering the companies behind the Antigua and Barbuda-based online gambling site to stop operating in a way that is accessible to residents, and to cease advertising to them as well.
Bodog says it is no longer accepting players from Manitoba, which follows a court in the province basically telling the offshore sportsbook to knock it off. pic.twitter.com/PV2FvhyD49
— Geoff Zochodne (@GeoffZochodne) June 25, 2025
The injunction against Bodog in Manitoba was successfully sought by the province's lottery and gaming corporation, on behalf of the Canadian Lottery Coalition (CLC). The advocacy group's members are government-owned lotteries from provinces across Canada, minus Alberta and Ontario.
Getting an injunction against Bodog, which has long been accessible and prominent to Canadian gamblers, and the operator saying it will restrict access in response to the court order, is a win for those lotteries.
It's also similar to what has happened in the U.S., where numerous states have recently managed to oust offshore operator Bovada from their backyards.
Lotto Six-Forty-Enough
Canada’s so-called “grey market” for online gambling (wherein companies may be regulated abroad or outside a province, but not by the province itself) has long competed with government-owned entities like Manitoba Liquor and Lotteries Corp.'s PlayNow site. That site is the only authorized one in the province.
However, the CLC and its members have been working to raise awareness of and go after unregulated operators, including by intervening with concerns in a court reference in Ontario regarding shared iGaming liquidity.
It was during the hearing for that reference that the coalition’s lawyers were asked if an offshore operator had ever been taken to court in Canada. This was apparently not the case until the Bodog proceeding in Manitoba.
Running out of shades of 'grey'
The grey market is now getting squeezed like never before in Canada.
While Alberta is moving toward something similar, Ontario is the only province in Canada that authorizes private-sector operators of online sportsbooks and casinos to take bets from its residents.
Some of those operators were previously "grey" entities before given the chance to transition into Ontario's new, regulated iGaming market. That has allowed Ontario to move more than 80% of all online gambling in the province onto locally regulated apps and sites.
Bodog, though, remains unregulated by Canada's most populous province. This recently resulted in the operator being singled out by the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario as a bookmaker that media companies should stop promoting.
Taken to (obedience) school
Meanwhile, the non-Alberta and non-Ontario lotteries are pursuing unregulated operators in their own way, such as with the Manitoba court injunction. In Manitoba, the lottery coalition had alleged Bodog was operating illegally in the province.
The injunction that was subsequently issued by Court of King's Bench Judge Jeffrey Harris on May 26 also requires Bodog to put in place "geo-blocking technology" on its .eu website (the one where users can wager real money) to stop Manitobans from accessing its products and services.
No orders were issued specifically for Bodog's ".net" site (and the judge's reasons have not yet been released), which says it is for "free play" and "amusement purposes only."
Even so, both the operator’s .eu and .net sites were named by the judge in the order as having no right to offer online Manitoba sports betting or casino games in the province. Bodog did not show up to defend itself in the Manitoba court.
“This court orders and declares that the Respondents have no lawful authority to offer online gambling products and services, whether through bodog.eu, bodog.net or any other related successor or replacement websites, or to advertise such online products and services to persons located in Manitoba, as such activities are contrary to,” the gambling sections of Canada’s Criminal Code, Judge Harris wrote.
