Disclaimer

What this site is, and the four things it is not

This site is an index of operators and a set of guides; it is not a casino, it is not a regulator, it is not legal or tax advice, and it is not a promise that any operator will perform.

What the site is

Canadian Dollar Casinos is a publisher, and it keeps an "index" of the online casinos that accept players from Canada (sixty-one brands, at the October 2026 count), records the licence each one holds and the authority that issued it. Writes guides about the things that cost a Canadian player money: the currency the account is held in, the route the money takes, and the arithmetic of an offer.

Everything on the site is either a fact taken from a public "register" (a list a public authority keeps and publishes), a quotation from a regulator's own document, a statement published by an operator and attributed to it, or our own reasoning from one of those three; where none of them was available, the page says that we could not "establish" the point rather than filling the gap with something plausible.

The method is written out at more length on our own page about it, and the reason it is written out is that a method is the only thing a site like this one can offer that a reader is able to check.

The four things it is not

It is not a casino, because no game runs here, no account exists here and no stake can be placed here (there is nothing to play). Every "operator button" leaves this site, and the operator at the other end is the party licensed to decide whether a reader may open an account, to verify his age and "identity", and to hold his money.

It is not a regulator, so this site cannot compel an operator to pay, reopen a closed account or settle a dispute. The authority named on each card is the body that can "act": Malta, Alderney, Kahnawake, a province. It is named there for precisely that moment; where that authority's record of player redress is thin this site says so on the card rather than leaving a reader to find out.

It is not legal or tax advice, and the pages on the provinces, on age and on tax set out a "framework" and quote the documents it comes from, which is useful before an appointment with a professional and worthless as a substitute for one, and a person's own position depends on facts this site does not have.

It is not a prediction. Nothing here says that you will win, and the mathematics of every game on every operator in this index runs the other way, because a "house edge" (the share of every stake the rules keep) means that a stake costs money on average, over any length of play. A page that implied otherwise would be wrong about arithmetic rather than merely optimistic!

The operators, the markets and the licences

The operators listed on these pages are licensed where their cards say they are licensed, and in most cases that is Malta, Alderney, Kahnawake or a Caribbean jurisdiction (Curaçao, usually, and sometimes Anjouan) rather than anywhere "in Canada". The consequence is set out in the line at the foot of every page: a "licence" held in one place is not a licence held everywhere.

And a reader is the person who has to establish that the law where he is sitting allows him to play with the operator he has chosen. In two Canadian provinces that question has a published answer. The reason is that Ontario and Alberta license private operators and keep registers we reproduce in full (eighty-four sites and fifty-one) on the pages written for those provinces.

Everywhere else in the country the answer is that a province runs its own site and licenses nobody else, and our index exists alongside that fact rather than in denial of it.

If you connect from a country where the operators on these pages may not lawfully be promoted, you receive a page written for that country, with no operator on it and the help services of that country instead, and that arrangement is described in the privacy policy, together with its limits.

The figures, the dates and the corrections

Every "number" on this site carries the date it was read and the place it was read in ("read on" (the date this site opened the source), in the licence line). Numbers in this trade change (every week, in the two provincial registers): a register adds an operator, an authority revises a "standard" (a programme withdraws a payment method), an operator changes the page a link arrives at.

A figure without a date is a figure that cannot be checked, and a figure that cannot be checked is not worth publishing. And it follows that some figures here will be out of date before a reader arrives. And we would rather he knew which ones to distrust than believe all of them equally.

The registers are the fastest moving: Ontario's directory declares the date the province itself published it (the first of September 2026 (at the time of writing)), Alberta's publishes none at all so we record the day we counted it. And both are rechecked rather than copied forward, and corrections are welcome and they are the most useful message we receive, and the contact page says where to write and what we can and cannot do about an account.

Gambling is entertainment and not income

This belongs in a disclaimer and not only in a footer, and gambling costs money on average, it is not a way of earning and it is not a way of recovering a loss. And every design decision on this site follows from taking that seriously: no ratings to imply a winner, no bonus amounts to imply a "windfall" (a gain the tax system does not treat as income).

And a calculator on the offers page whose whole purpose is to show how much a requirement actually asks a player to stake. The services funded by each Canadian province are listed by province on our responsible gambling page, with the numbers verified on the twenty-first of October 2026, for all four, and they are "free and confidential", they answer whether or not a person has decided anything, and they also take a call from somebody worried about a member of his household.

By the Canadian Dollar Casinos editorial team · Last updated October 2026 · Online since 2012