I don't think there Chicago controls anything in western canada. There are a tone of legal casinos all over western canada and we have a national lottery sports select that allows for anybody over 18 to bet on most any sport around although you can't bet single games on there and there are limits to how much you can wager. Any sport you can't bet on through that lottery or if you want to bet on any single game there are lots of off shore websites where one can do that legally although those websites may well be controlled by OC groups.

In western Canada Asian crime groups as well as the Hells Angels seem to be the most dominant groups. Maybe East Indian groups also.

CSIS Canada's intelligence agency say there are a couple of Italian organized Crime Groups operating in Calgary and Vancouver that have been around since the 1980's. CSIS states they are involved at the highest levels of drug importation and other traditional OC activities. Those groups apparently originate from Montreal and Toronto but if they are active they sure don't make the headlines often. I have read in newspaper articles and books that reference both Vito Rizzuto and members of [BadWord]-Caruana families visiting with local Italian crime groups and having business interests in each city. However there was little or no information about the groups they were meeting with.