This week on Village Media’s ‘Closer Look’ podcast: As MPs move to restrict gambling commercials amid mounting harms, we revisit a recent interview with a doctor who has been sounding the alarm<\/p>\n
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Here\u2019s a safe bet: If you watch a sporting event today, you\u2019re going to see a lot of gambling commercials.<\/p>\n
That could soon change.<\/p>\n
On Oct. 29, the House of Commons Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage will vote on Bill S-211<\/a>, a law aimed at scaling back gambling ads across the country amid new evidence of serious harms \u2014 including increased rates of addiction and suicides.<\/p>\n On this week\u2019s episode of Village Media\u2019s Closer Look<\/a> podcast, we revisit our recent interview with Dr. Shannon Charlebois. She is\u00a0a family physician who has sounded the alarm about the major risks<\/a> associated with gambling ads, especially on children and teens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This week on Village Media’s ‘Closer Look’ podcast: As MPs move to restrict gambling commercials amid mounting harms,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":642406,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[134,554,555,111,139,69,314906],"class_list":["post-642405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-village-mediaeducationgamblingaddictioncloser-lookgambling-adsdr-shannon-charleboisbill-s-211"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/642406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}