{"id":634582,"date":"2026-04-28T17:35:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T17:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/634582\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T17:35:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T17:35:10","slug":"bill-linnane-if-we-want-to-protect-kids-from-gambling-the-bouncy-balls-of-the-lotto-are-the-least-of-our-worries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/634582\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Linnane: If we want to protect kids from gambling the bouncy balls of the Lotto are the least of our worries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Gone are the days of swearing, wayward teens: today we\u2019ve got sanitised games of chance with tickets for tat for prizes\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Amusement arcades now are colourful introductions to gambling. Photo: Picture posed\/Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/s in a games arcade.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Amusement arcades now are colourful introductions to gambling. Photo: Picture posed\/Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u200bIn the closing scenes of Martin Scorsese\u2019s 1995 crime epic Casino, Robert de Niro\u2019s character laments the decline of the old order in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Despite having survived attempts on his life and seeing his friends beaten to death by gangsters, he seems almost sorrowful when he talks about the new mob-free Vegas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gone are the days of swearing, wayward teens: today we\u2019ve got sanitised games of chance with tickets for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":634583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[237297,49,48,84,393,394],"class_list":["post-634582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-bill-linnane","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=634582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}