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The Fine Print
Casino Weekly is put together each week by a small desk for players across Canada, and is published by Sahelix Online Media FZ-LLC, Building 8, Dubai Media City, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. We cover online casinos, welcome packages, cashiers, studios and the patchwork of provincial rules. Below is the fine print: what our pages are meant for, and where they stop.
Reading material, not advice
A Casino Weekly guide tells you how something works and what the desk saw when it looked. It cannot weigh your finances, your province or your reasons for playing, and it is no substitute for a lawyer, an accountant or a financial planner. Seeing a casino in our tables does not mean you will come out ahead there, or that it is the right fit for you.
Ten provinces, ten approaches
There is no Canada-wide licence for online casinos. Ontario runs a competitive market, with iGaming Ontario signing up private operators under AGCO oversight. Alberta has begun regulating its own; elsewhere the provincial lottery corporation is usually the only licensed online option. Our province pages capture how things stood as of the date shown under the headline. Statutes, regulator lists and enforcement priorities move, and the provincial regulator's website outranks our summary every time.
Licence records
For each brand we note the authority and company named in the operator's own terms — Ontario, Curaçao, Kahnawake, Malta, Anjouan and so on — and check a public register when one exists. Licences get suspended, surrendered or left to expire after our visit. A licence issued somewhere else does not make an operator regulated in your province.
Bonus figures
Percentages, caps, free spin counts, playthrough and minimum deposits are transcribed from the casino's own bonus terms each time a page is refreshed. Casinos frequently tailor offers by province, by deposit method or for returning customers, and a promotion can vanish between Friday and Monday. Before you tick an opt-in box, read the promotion's small print where the casino publishes it. Ontario pages carry no amounts at all.
Why there is no leaderboard
The desk does not award stars, points or grades, and unverifiable player reviews are not published. How a table is ordered depends on the subject of the page and on the publisher's agreements, as described on How we earn. Read our tables as a shortlist on a theme, never as a best-to-worst verdict.
Cashier details
Interac e-Transfer, iDebit, Instadebit, PayPal, Skrill, ecoPayz, prepaid vouchers and phone-bill payments each bring their own fees, ceilings and eligibility rules, set by the casino, the payment company and sometimes your bank. Several wallets named in older pieces have rebranded or pulled out of Canada since. The cashier screen at the casino is the up-to-date list.
Game maths
Published RTP percentages are supplied by studios and describe expected returns over an enormous sample of rounds. One title may exist in several RTP builds, and the operator picks which one goes live. Our free slots run the studio's demo, which can behave differently from the cash version. No progression or staking plan from our blackjack, roulette or craps guides beats the house edge over time.
Live dealer tables
Table limits, opening hours and side bets at live dealer games are set by the studio and the casino. Our live casino pages explain the formats; the rules card displayed at the table before you bet is the one that counts.
Sports betting mentions
Casino Weekly is about casino play, yet a few operators we write about also run a sportsbook. Odds, cash-out options and single-event wagering markets are outside what the desk checks. Where a review touches on betting, treat it as a pointer only and look up the book's own market rules.
Provincial lottery platforms
PlayNow, Espacejeux, OLG, PlayAlberta and the Atlantic Lottery site are run by public corporations. We describe them for comparison; we have no commercial tie to any of them, and their terms, limits and catalogue are theirs to change.
Crypto cashiers
Some casinos in our coverage accept Bitcoin, Ethereum or stablecoins. Coin prices swing, network fees vary and coins pushed to a mistyped wallet are gone for good. Nothing on Casino Weekly is a view on whether any token is worth holding.
Apps and mobile play
Statements about apps, browser play and device support reflect what the desk tested on the phones it had to hand. App store availability differs by province, and an update can move or drop a feature overnight.
The archive
The blog holds years of news and features, a share of them written for other markets before Casino Weekly turned its attention to Canada. Each story reflects the week it ran and is not revised later. Campaigns it mentions are long finished; companies in it may since have merged, rebranded or closed.
Tax
For most recreational players in Canada, gambling wins are not taxed as income. Professionals and unusual cases are treated differently, and how the rules apply to you is a matter for the Canada Revenue Agency and a qualified adviser rather than for this desk.
After you click through
Leave casinoweekly.org and the operator's terms, privacy notice and complaints process take over. The desk cannot see player accounts and has no standing in a quarrel over a delayed withdrawal, a frozen account or a cancelled bonus. Licensed operators normally answer to a regulator that accepts complaints the operator itself failed to settle.
Logos and screenshots
Casino logos, studio marks and lobby screenshots appear so readers can recognise what we are discussing. Showing them does not imply that their owners have read, approved or sponsored a single line of Casino Weekly.
What readers tell us
Some of what we know about payout speed and support quality comes from readers who wrote in. We try to confirm such reports before they shape a page, but we cannot investigate individual cases or rule on a reader's argument with a casino.
No warranty
We cannot guarantee that any page is complete, current or error-free on a given day. Sahelix Online Media FZ-LLC accepts no responsibility, so far as Canadian law allows, for money a reader loses gambling, for how an operator behaves or for anything that follows from relying on Casino Weekly. Consumer protections your province makes mandatory are left untouched.
Keeping it a pastime
Only gamble with spare money and treat what you spend as the price of entertainment. Licensed operators provide spending limits, cooling-off breaks and self-exclusion, and programmes such as GameSense explain how to use them. If play has stopped feeling like fun, for you or for a person you care about, the first call to make is ConnexOntario at 1-866-531-2600 — free, confidential, open around the clock. Other services appear in the responsible gambling guide on this site.
Corrections
Found something wrong? Send the page address and the problem to [email protected]. The desk checks the source, fixes the page and moves the Updated date.