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1win in Canada – Bet on Your Favourite Hockey Teams with the Best Bookmaker

The best choice for players and bettors from Canada would be the world-famous bookmaker 1win. In this review, we will tell you what sets this bookmaker apart from its competitors, what service you will find on its official website, how to register and verify, how to make a deposit, how to start betting on the platform, how to contact the support team, and much more.

Play and Win with 1win – Bookie Review 2022

The bookmaker 1win is one of the most famous betting sites in the world, and even those who are not familiar with the world of betting have heard of it. This fame is due to the reliability and versatility of the bookmaker’s services. The official 1win website offers a good sportsbook, with a variety of disciplines and events that you can watch directly on the platform as well as one of the best online casinos with all sorts of gambling games. What makes 1win stand out from the competition is the high odds, the well-designed website, the user-friendly mobile app for Android and iOS and the helpful customer support team. Read through our review to find out how to start betting and win with 1win!

How to Start Playing at 1win

To play on the official 1win website or its mobile app, you will need to create an account on the platform. You will then need to verify it by submitting your documents. Once you have successfully created your account, you need to deposit funds into it, which can be done using any modern payment method. Once the deposit has been made, you can start betting and gambling. Starting to bet or play online casino games on the 1win platform is easy, just follow the instructions below:

  1. Go to the bookmaker’s website. Open 1win in your browser from any of your devices, and make sure it is the official bookmaker’s website;
  2. Create an account on the platform. Find the green “Register” button in the top right corner of the website, to create your account. Or login to an existing account;
  3. Verify your account. Confirm the information you entered and provide the administration with your documents. Wait for the verification process to complete;
  4. Make a deposit. Deposit money into your 1win account to multiply your betting or casino winnings;
  5. Place a bet. Choose the sports discipline you wish to bet on and then wait for the match to end. You can also bet in gambling games.

How to Create an Account at 1win?

The very first step to start using the bookmaker’s service is to create a personal account to which your data will be linked. This is for your convenience, as having an account allows you to link your card to it, view your betting stats and so on. Without an account, you will not be able to bet on sports and play online casino games on the 1win platform. The procedure on the site is very simple and will take you no more than two minutes to complete. Follow the steps below to quickly create your 1win account:

  1. Go to the 1win website. Open the official bookmaker page in your browser using any of your devices;
  2. Start your registration. Open the registration form by clicking on the green “Complete registration” button in the top right corner;
  3. Fill in the blank fields. In the registration form that opens, you need to enter your name, date of birth, address, phone number and email. You also need to come up with a strong password and choose the currency in which you want to make transactions;
  4. Enter a promo code. If you have a bonus promo code, click on the appropriate button;
  5. Check the boxes. Before completing the registration, the bookmaker requires its new clients to confirm that they have read the terms and conditions of the site, confirm that they are 18 years old and that they have not been blocked from other gambling sites in the last 12 months;
  6. Complete the registration process. Once again, ensure all the details you have entered are correct and press the “Register” button to create your 1win account.

How to Pass Verification at 1win?

Once you have created your 1win profile, you will need to confirm your identity by going through a verification procedure. The bookmaker does not accept people under 18 years of age or people who are not allowed to gamble or bet, so you will need to provide your documents. The procedure is quick and easy, so it is recommended that you do it straight away. Without verification, you will not be able to bet on sports and gamble. To verify your account, follow the instructions below:

  1. Login to your account. Go to the official 1win website and click “Login” to log in to your existing account;
  2. Enter your details. Open your profile settings and fill in the blank fields with the information you do not need, then confirm;
  3. Add a photo of your documents. Take a good-quality photo or scan of your documents and email them to support. Documents may include your passport, driving licence, bank statement, etc;
  4. Wait until verification is complete. Your documents will be manually checked by the support team, so this may take some time (up to 3 working days). Once the verification is completed you can top up your account.

Making Deposit at 1win

And so, you have created your 1win account and successfully verified it, you can now fund your account and start betting and playing online casino games. The bookmaker offers its Canadian customers a wide range of payment methods that are recognised worldwide, so your funds are safe (bank transfers and cards, e-wallets and cryptocurrencies, and more). Depending on the method you choose, the crediting speed may vary. And so, to fund your 1win account, follow the steps below:

  1. Login to your account. Go to the official 1win website and click “Login” to log in to your existing account;
  2. Go to the deposit tab of your account. Click on your profile and find the “Deposit” button to go to the corresponding page;
  3. Select your payment method. On the opened page choose a convenient method of payment from the variety presented, and then enter your details;
  4. Enter the amount of the deposit. Now you need to decide how much you want to deposit into your account. Observe the minimum and maximum deposit amounts;
  5. Confirm the deposit. Make sure the information you entered is correct and confirm the deposit. Once the funds are credited to your account, you can start betting on sports and gambling.

How to Place Bets at 1win?

Great, you now have a 1win betting platform account which you have verified and also made a deposit. That means you’re ready to start playing and winning. The bookmaker offers its customers a huge range of sporting disciplines on which you can bet, both in pre-match and in live mode. You’ll also find hundreds of different gambling games from the best suppliers where you can score big and have a good time. Decide what you’re most interested in and start earning. Follow the instructions below to place your bets quickly and easily on the official 1win website:

  1. Log in to your 1win account. Go to the bookmaker’s official website and log in to your existing account, or create one if you haven’t done so before;
  2. Select the section you want. On the platform, you can bet on matches that will be played soon (pre-match mode) as well as on matches that are happening right now (live mode). Depending on your preference, you will find them in the main bar at the top of the page;
  3. Choose a suitable match. Once you are in the right section, decide on the sport you want to bet on and then select the match you are interested in;
  4. Define the outcome and add it by clicking on the odds. 1win offers its bettors a big variety of types of bets and different outcomes. Browse through the range of bets and choose a bet that suits you;
  5. Go to the Coupons section. Here, you need to enter your selections and the stake you wish to wager on the outcome of the match;
  6. Wait for the end of the match. After the match is over, if your prediction is correct, you will be credited with your winnings. Otherwise, analyse your mistakes and try again.

Customer Support Service

If you have any questions at any stage or if you experience any technical problems, do not hesitate to contact our support team. 1win customer support is a responsive team that will come to your aid and help you solve any problems. They are available on the bookmaker’s official website and mobile app 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, so feel free to contact them at any time. You can contact the customer support team in one of the ways below:

  • Online chat. This method is the quickest, as all you need to do is click on the chat icon in the bottom corner of the website and describe your problem. A support worker will reply instantly and you can chat live with him;
  • Email. If you have a problem which requires a detailed solution, send an email to contact@1win.xyz. In the letter describe your problem and attach a screenshot if necessary;
  • Social networks. The bookmaker’s office is popular all over the world and, of course, maintains several social networks that you can contact to solve your problem. You will find links to available social networks at the very bottom of the official 1win website.

FAQs

Is it legal to bet on 1win in Canada?

Yes, it is. Canadian laws do not ban betting and gambling sites. Specifically for betting company 1win, it is a certified license from Curacao, which is a guarantee of reliability and quality. 1win always pays its customers their winnings and cooperates only with the best gambling providers and payment methods.

Can I bet in Canadian Dollars at 1win?

Yes, of course. The bookmaker accepts deposits and allows withdrawals in various currencies, including Canadian dollars. 

Does 1win have a mobile app?

Yes, we do. The bookmaker offers its customers to install its handy mobile app for Android and iOS devices. The app is perfectly optimised for all devices, be it phones or tablets. You can download it from the official website and App Store. The app does not contain any viruses and is completely safe. The developers also periodically release updates that fix bugs and make design adjustments.

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The greatest escape

Bernard Pinsky

Author’s father survived Holocaust with grace, joy intact

By MARTIN ZEILIG Former Winnipegger Bernard Pinsky grew up listening to his father Rubin Pinsky’s stories of his childhood in Poland and his time spent living in the forest, where he survived the Holocaust after fleeing a Nazi work camp in 1942.

“My father’s stories didn’t make the Holocaust scary for me as a child,” Pinsky says.

“He told me about scavenging for food in the forest, learning what berries and roots he could eat, making baskets and other things from birch bark and twigs, learning the animal sounds, etc.”

Pinsky, who lives in Vancouver, will speak at the Winnipeg launch of his book,Ordinary, Extraordinary — My Father’s Life (Behind the Book), on Sunday — the anniversary of Kristallnacht — in honour of International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

The program will feature a conversation between Pinsky and Belle Jarniewski, executive director of the Jewish Heritage Centre. The event is presented by the centre in partnership with Jewish Child and Family Service and the philanthropic Ronald S. Roadburg Foundation, for which Pinsky, a retired lawyer and community leader, is the chairman.

Of his father, a former yeshiva student, Pinsky says, “He was not a particularly successful businessman in Canada, although we didn’t feel poor; we had what we needed. I saw how hard he worked, how positive he was, how he provided for his family despite not knowing any English or French when he came to Canada in his 20s.

“Despite his being an ordinary man, I realized that his life had taken an extraordinarily difficult route, which he overcame to create a normal, ordinary life for himself and his family.”

Pinsky wanted to honour his father, so for his 72nd birthday in 1996, he wrote a manuscript about his life as a gift.

“He was very happy to get it, but by then he had some mini-strokes (TIAs) and I doubt he ever read the whole manuscript,” Pinsky says via email.

He also sent the manuscript to some relatives, including Melvin Fenson, a Winnipegger and former partner of Walsh Micay law firm, who had made Aliyah (immigration of Jews from the diaspora to Israel) in the 1970s.

“Melvin read the manuscript and said that it contained some good information about the Holocaust and Yad Vashem (Israel’s official memorial museum to the victims of the Holocaust) might accept it for their archives,” Pinsky says.

The manuscript was submitted in 1997 and Yad Vashem said it would be included in its catalogue, but nothing happened for a decade.

Then, in 2007, Pinsky received a letter from a history teacher in Djatlovo, Belarus, who was hoping to translate the manuscript into Russian.

It turned out to be the same town as Pinsky’s father grew up in — prewar Gzetl, Poland.

“I went to Djatlovo in 2012 and saw both the incredible work that the teacher, a Russian Orthodox woman, and others like her were doing to create memorials to the Jewish community that perished in the Holocaust, and I saw the small museum in that teacher’s high school that she had created based on my work.

“She said she did it because she is religious and preserving the memory of the Jews, who were now all gone, was the right thing to do.”

At the time, Pinsky was a lawyer with a busy practice and planned to finish the book when he retired. However, at 67, he moved on to a new job at a charitable foundation that also left him little free time.

Finally, his wife pointed out that, since it seemed likely he would work long hours for the rest of his life, the time to finish the book was “now or never.”

He spent evenings and weekends in 2023 finishing the book, had it edited and self-published it.

Ordinary, Extraordinary is the survival story of Rubin Pinsky and some of Rubin’s immediate family,” he says. “But it is also the story of what Rubin did with his life after the Holocaust, his attitude towards life and his ability to pick himself up and to live life fully after every one of life’s blows, mostly with determination and with joy.

“His life could be an example of what people can endure in life and still be fulfilled and happy.”

Pinsky will offer one copy of the book to each family attending the event at the Berney Theatre. Register at 204-478-8590 or jewishheritage@jhcwc.org

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“Sharing Shalom” – new children’s book explores how children deal with antisemitism

"Sharing Shalom" cover/author Danielle Sharkan

While her peers dance, swim, or practice martial arts outside of class, Leila attends Hebrew school twice a week, an act that makes her feel “connected to her grandparents, her aunts and uncles,” writes debut author Danielle Sharkan.

Illustrator Selina Alko (Stars of the Night), working in collage and thick swathes of jewel-tone acrylic paint, shows faces of relatives past and present, layered with texts of liturgical music and prayers.

When Leila arrives at the synagogue one day and finds it vandalized, she’s told that “Some people think we’re different, and they don’t like that.” She worries about how she’s perceived by others, not wanting “anyone to see she was Jewish”- In her anxious state, even her bagel lunch feels like a giveaway. But the more Leila tries to blend in, “the more she noticed the way her friends stood out,” and when she sees community members helping to repair the damaged synagogue, she embraces her identity once again.

The creators address an act of antisemitism with candor and sensitivity, reassuring readers that one can belong to multiple communities without hiding one’s beliefs or identity. Characters are portrayed with various abilities and skin tones.

An author’s note and glossary conclude. Recommended for ages 4-8.

About the author: Originally from Chicago, Danielle Sharkan now lives by the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in Boulder, Colorado. When she’s not eggsploring the area with her two kids, she enjoys yoga, hiking, chai tea lattes and eggsperimenting in the kitchen. She’s eggstatic to introduce the world to Ellie the Eggspert, next March.

Sharing Shalom
By Danielle Sharkan, illus. by Selina Alko.
Holiday House, $18.99 *32p) ISBN. 978-0-8234-5556-0

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“No Jews Live Here” – new book tells poignant story of Hungarian survivors of the Holocaust

Review by JULIE KIRSH (former Sun Media News Research Director)
In 1950 my parents made the decision to leave Hungary, the country of their birth and ancestors. Both were Holocaust survivors. My father survived Auschwitz and was liberated from Buchenwald. My mother hid with false Christian papers in Budapest during the war. Most of their families perished. Coming to Canada without language, money or family support took courage. I am the lucky recipient of their strength, optimism and resilience.
In journalist John Lorinc’s book, No Jews Live Here, his parents and maternal grandmother, Ilona, arrived in Canada in 1956, the second and larger wave of Hungarian refugees. Many were Jewish Holocaust survivors.
Hungary was unique in the east European countries. Lorinc provides an excellent historical overview of Jewish life in Hungary before World War Two.
However the author emphasizes that freedom to succeed in Hungary came at a cost. Lorinc explains why many Jews became Christian converts. In Budapest, an enclave for a thriving Jewish population, Jews constituted 5% of Hungary’s total population. By 1941, over 17% of Budapest’s Jews had converted.
Lorinc’s grandparents who came from wealthy Jewish families converted in the 1920s. However it is important to note that the converts were not saved from the mass deportations in Hungary in 1944. Jews and converts died together in the gas chambers of Auschwitz. Over the course of less than 3 months, with the complete cooperation and enthusiasm of the Royal Hungarian Gendarmerie, 440,000 Jews were murdered. Lorinc’s grandfather was ordered to join a forced labour unit. He marched off wearing a white armband signifying that he was a converted Jew.
One of Lorinc’s poignant stories is his own father’s history as a slave labourer in the copper mines of Bor in Serbia. Often the labourers, of which many were middle class Jewish Hungarians who had never held a tool other than a writing pen in their hands, were starved, tortured and killed. The Hungarian overseers were especially cruel, according to Lorinc’s father.
Chapter 10 is titled Aftermath and although the Russian army liberated the surviving Hungarian Jews, the horrors of the Red Army soldiers are described relentlessly. Women and girls were raped. Looting was prevalent. Lorinc relates that it was not unusual for a Russian soldier to have 4 or 5 watches on his arm.
Ilona, ever the resilient survivor, along with other survivors in Budapest came up with creative ways to feed her family and at the same time, wrangled with legal authorities and her in-laws for the return of their farm and property. The feud between Ilona and her mother-in-law became much more than logistical. It was tangled with betrayal, grief and financial desperation, a classic family conspiracy theory.
In 1956 after the revolution in Hungary, Lorinc’s parents along with many other Hungarian refugees found themselves in Vienna. Choices to leave Europe were dependent on how easy it was to get an exit visa. The entry gates to Canada had been opened and the lineup at the Canadian embassy permitted applicants to stand in a foyer instead of waiting outside.
Toronto in the mid-50s was a “closed” city on Sundays. Even the swings in playgrounds were chained up to discourage children’s use. Italian men were hounded by police to prevent gathering on the sidewalks of Little Italy.
Like many other immigrants, Lorinc’s parents found jobs and gained a foothold in the security of Canadian life.
The author explains that as a child, he and his sister were baptized at a United Church, a classic “just in case” move for the still traumatized survivors.
Then at age 10, Lorinc’s father told him that he was Jewish but didn’t explain why this was a secret. The need to understand Jewish history in Hungary was planted at an early age.
The author goes on to describe his family’s life in the Toronto suburbs of the ‘70s and ‘80s.
A frequent visitor at the family home was his grandmother Ilona, colourful, dramatic and stubborn. She was consumed with “vanities and accusations” and insisted on wearing high heels and fashionable clothing well into old age. Ilona deeply harboured old family disagreements over ownership of the farm in Hungary.
Ilona’s obsession with her fading looks and the family history of betrayal never left her. Hungarian “Jewish Christmas” with Ilona became a battlefield of wounds and grievances.
After she died, Lorinc reflects that her stubborn character still influences his own world perspective, blurring the line between the life of the author and his grandmother’s story.
Lorinc recounts in detail the need for conversion and hiding one’s Jewishness in an historical context. Before the war, Hungary’s Jews looked the same and had the same freedoms as non-Jews. Seeing themselves first as loyal Hungarians didn’t save converted Jews from persecution and the gas chambers. In fact Lorinc argues that conversion contributed to anti-Semitic theories.
Finally Lorinc and his wife make a trip to Bor, the mine and labour camp where his father was interred. The author’s dedication to telling the story of his family’s tragedy and survival is admirable. Readers will find themselves savouring every word, looking within their own family history as part of the saga of human survival.
No Jews Live Here
by John Lorinc
(Coach House Books), 2024

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