26-06-2017 23:19 via ottawacitizen.com

Reevely: Ontario's aggrieved Tragically Hip fans get action on ticket scalping

Wanting to buy tickets to a concert but finding it’s sold out and the only way you can go is by paying a scalper a lot of money stinks. Yasir Naqvi, the Ottawa Centre MPP, attorney general of Ontario and minister for affordable concert tickets, is on it.
Ontario will ban “bots” (software programs that swoop in the moment tickets go on sale and buy in bulk faster than any human could) from buying online tickets, forbid markups of more than 50 per cent and toughen enforcement mea
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