{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"berrygrounds","title":"A Losing Hand (Ep. 18)","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3599,"description":"In late 2024, award-winning journalist Rob Csernyik brought readers across the country an important investigation into the role legalised gambling is playing in suicides across the country.\nIn the course of his work, Csernyik found that Newfoundland and Labrador was one of the only provinces which couldn’t provide data on the role gambling was playing in suicides in this province — despite the massive growth of legalised gambling, and despite efforts by families of those whose lives ended too soon after struggling with gambling addiction.\nA year after The Independent first published Csernyik’s investigation, Newfoundland and Labrador’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner began gathering data on gambling-related suicides.\nCsernyik has now published a book, A Losing Hand: The Human Cost of Canada's Gambling Epidemic. He joined berrygrounds host Justin Brake at the Rotary Arts Centre in Corner Brook on Oct. 5, 2026 for a wide-ranging conversation about gambling and gambling-related suicides in Newfoundland and Labrador and Canada.\nHost: Justin Brake\nGuest: Rob Csernyik\nMusic: Shane Iver, Silverman Sound Studios\nFurther Reading:\nPreventing deaths like Susan Piercey’s (The Independent / Dec. 18, 2024)\nLearning lessons from Susan Piercey’s death (The Independent / Dec. 19, 2024)\nDying to win: Canadian provinces are expanding legal gambling despite one death every nine days (Rirochet Media / Dec. 17, 2024)\nThe Michener-Deacon Fellowship for Investigative Reporting (Michener Awards Foundation)\nIf you haven’t already, sign up for The Independent’s free email newsletter.\nIf you like berrygrounds and would like to support the show, please consider becoming a monthly donor to The Independent. \n\nberrygrounds is a proud member of the Harbinger Media Network. The show is hosted, produced and edited by me, Justin Brake.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/TmixHP1rYWE5BVzfU2-0CNKq-bvNypCqxYNqXZF0JvA/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9lMGI5/ODgxZDA4ODJmZmIw/NzBkMjg4OTgzZDEw/MmI2MC5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}