How we rank online casinos in Canada

What we rank

Our ranking of the best online casinos in Canada compares real-money online casinos that Canadians can legally use. Because gambling is run or licensed by each province, that means three kinds of site:

• Private casinos registered in Ontario, with the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario (AGCO), operating as agents of iGaming Ontario.
• Private casinos registered in Alberta, with Alberta Gaming, Liquor and Cannabis (AGLC), under agreements with the Alberta iGaming Corporation.
• Provincial sites, run by a province’s lottery or gaming corporation, such as OLG.ca in Ontario and PlayNow in British Columbia, Manitoba and Saskatchewan.

Every card in the ranking shows the provinces where the casino is legal, and you must be physically there to play.

The six criteria

Each criterion gets a rating from 0 to 10. The overall score is the weighted average, rounded to one decimal, and the ranking follows it.

How we rate each criterion

• Licensing & safety: a clean registration in Ontario or Alberta, or a provincial operator, starts near the top. Each AGCO penalty costs points, more for recent ones and those about player protection. Loose claims, such as an app listing that says a brand serves provinces that don’t license it, cost points too.
• Game library: we count games where the lobby lets us, as with FanDuel’s 3,886 in Ontario, and otherwise use the casino’s own published figure. A casino that publishes no figure, and whose lobby we couldn’t count, is scored conservatively.
• Payments & payouts: published withdrawal times count most, then fees, Interac support and minimums. “Instant” marketing without published times scores lower than a clear table.
• App & experience: ratings on Canada’s App Store and on Google Play, weighted by how many Canadians rated them, on the date we checked.
• Responsible gambling: the range of limits and breaks, how long a limit increase takes, self-exclusion terms and links to BetGuard or provincial programs. A mandatory limit, such as PlayNow’s weekly deposit limit in BC, scores highest.
• Customer support: 24/7 live chat, a phone line, French-language help and a published complaints process.

What we leave out

Bonuses and loyalty programs. Ontario’s Registrar’s Standard 2.05 prohibits advertising that communicates gambling inducements, bonuses and credits, except on an operator’s own site and through direct marketing to players who’ve given consent, and Standard 1.19 makes operators answerable for affiliates. So our Canadian pages carry no offers, no bonus columns and no bonus scores.

Odds of winning. Casino games have a fixed house edge; a casino doesn’t make a slot more generous by being better run. We note where casinos show each game’s return to player (RTP), which helps you choose games.

Where our facts come from

• Regulators: iGaming Ontario’s directory of regulated operators and sites, the Alberta iGaming Corporation’s list of registered sites, the AGLC’s registrant list, and the AGCO’s enforcement news.
• The casinos themselves: terms and conditions, cashier and payment pages, help centres and responsible gambling pages. Where a live page couldn’t be read, we used the Internet Archive’s dated copy and say so.
• App stores: Canada’s App Store and Google Play, with the rating count on the date checked.

Every fact on a review is dated, and the sources are listed at the bottom of each page. We don’t use review sites as sources for Canadian casino facts.

Independence

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