Licensed casino sites · Ontario and Alberta
Online casinos in Canada listed by the province you play from
Pick the province you play from. We show only the casino sites its regulator allows, with the official list as proof.
Online casinos in Canada are legal only where a province says so. Since 2022, Ontario has let private companies run casino sites under its rules, and Alberta followed in July 2026. Everywhere else, the only legal option is the site your provincial government runs itself.
Casiloon covers the two provinces with an open market. Pick yours below to see which casino sites may take your bets, checked against the official provincial lists rather than against what an ad claims.
Choose your province to find legal online casinos
Where you are when you play decides which sites are open to you. A player standing in Ontario faces a different legal market from one in Calgary or Montreal, even on a brand with the same name.
74 casino sites registered
- Private market since April 2022
- Regulator: AGCO
- Market run by iGaming Ontario
New market opened July 13, 2026
- Regulator: AGLC
- Market run by the Alberta iGaming Corporation
- One province-wide self-exclusion program
Elsewhere in Canada: the provincial site is the only legal option
- British Columbia, Manitoba, SaskatchewanPlayNow.com, run by BCLC
- QuebecLoto-Québec, on espacejeux.com
- New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, PEI, Newfoundland and LabradorAtlantic Lottery
- Yukon, Northwest Territories, NunavutNo private online casino market
In Ontario, start with the directory: each of the 74 casino sites is listed with the company that runs it. Alberta players can already check the provincial list, and our guide to that market is in preparation.
Canadian online casinos and the Criminal Code
Gambling law in Canada starts with one federal rule. Section 207 of the Criminal Code makes it lawful for a provincial government, alone or with another province, to conduct and manage a lottery scheme. Each province decides what to do with that power, which is why a site that is legal in Toronto can be off limits in Winnipeg.
Most provinces kept online gaming inside a Crown lottery corporation. Ontario opened a regulated private market on April 4, 2022, with iGaming Ontario conducting and managing the games, and Alberta launched its own on July 13, 2026.
The courts have tested the model. In May 2024, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice found that the province meets the Criminal Code requirement, because iGaming Ontario keeps the final say on the games offered, advertising oversight and player disputes.
Ontario and Alberta side by side
The two open markets share a structure: a regulator that registers companies, and a provincial body that manages the market and keeps the list of approved sites. The details differ.
| How the market works | Ontario | Alberta |
|---|---|---|
| Regulator | AGCO, Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario | AGLC, Alberta Gaming, Liquor and Cannabis |
| Market manager | iGaming Ontario | Alberta iGaming Corporation |
| Private market since | April 4, 2022 | July 13, 2026 |
| Minimum age | 19 | 18 |
| Proof that a site is legal | Listed in the iGaming Ontario directory | Listed by the Alberta iGaming Corporation |
| Self-exclusion from every site | BetGuard | AGLC self-exclusion program |
| Casiloon guide | Live, 74 casino sites | In preparation |
Bonus offers follow one principle in both provinces. They may appear on the casino’s own site or reach players who agreed to receive them, never on a comparison page like this one.
Both lists change as sites join or leave, so check the date on any list before relying on it. Our Ontario directory shows when it was last compared with the official source.
Legal online gambling in the rest of Canada
Outside Ontario and Alberta, no province or territory licenses private online casinos. The legal choice is the site run by the provincial lottery corporation.
British Columbia’s BCLC runs PlayNow.com, which also serves players in Manitoba and Saskatchewan. In Quebec, Loto-Québec offers online casino games on espacejeux.com. The four Atlantic provinces go through Atlantic Lottery, and what it offers online varies from one province to the next.
Casiloon does not review these sites. Each is the only legal option where it operates, so there are no licensed competitors to set it against.
Offshore sites dressed up as Canadian casinos
Plenty of sites courting Canadian players are licensed abroad, in Malta, in Curaçao or by the Kahnawà:ke Gaming Commission. Some show prices in Canadian dollars, use a .ca address or a maple leaf, and still have no licence from any province.
None of those details proves anything. The only test is the official list of the province you play from: the iGaming Ontario directory, the Alberta list, or the provincial lottery site everywhere else.
An unregistered site answers to no Canadian regulator, so a frozen balance or a refused withdrawal has nowhere official to go. In Ontario, 91.1% of people who gambled online said they used regulated sites in an Ipsos study for iGaming Ontario.
Legal check first for every casino in Canada
A Casiloon page never opens with a bonus or a ranking. It opens with the register: a site missing from its province’s official list does not appear here at all.
Reviews come next, each with a score out of 10 built from payout terms, safer-play tools and four other areas. You can read how each casino gets scored, then follow Riley’s reviews of Canadian casinos as they go live.
Some things never make it onto the site at all: offshore casinos, sweepstakes sites sold as real money and paid placements disguised as reviews. Each refusal is explained on our About page, along with who runs the site.
Before you sign up anywhere in Canada
Is playing at an online casino legal everywhere in Canada?
Only on a site your province authorizes. That means the provincial lottery corporation’s own site, or a registered private site in Ontario or Alberta.
Why do some brands run a different site in each province?
Each province approves sites one by one, so a brand needs a version cleared for that market. That is why the official Ontario list shows addresses such as on.bet365.ca or betway.ca/ontario.
Does a .ca address mean a casino is Canadian and legal?
No. Anyone can register a .ca domain or show prices in Canadian dollars. The only proof is the site’s presence on the official list of the province you play from.
Why doesn’t Casiloon cover British Columbia or Quebec?
Neither province has a private market. The provincial site is the only legal option, so there are no competing licensed casinos to compare.
When will the Alberta guide be ready?
We asked the AGLC how it treats comparison sites like ours, and the Alberta guide follows its written answer. Until then, the official Alberta list is the reference.
What if a site I use is on no provincial list?
Stop depositing and withdraw what you can. An unregistered site answers to no Canadian regulator, so a dispute over your balance has nowhere official to go.
Sources
- Criminal Code, section 207: permitted lotteries · Justice Laws Website
- iGaming Ontario, directory of regulated sites · list accurate as of September 1, 2026
- iGaming Ontario, player FAQs
- AGCO, Registrar’s Standards for Internet Gaming: Eligibility · last updated May 14, 2026
- AGCO, news release on the market’s first anniversary · April 4, 2023
- AGLC, iGaming in Alberta
- GameSense Alberta, self-exclusion program
- Blakes, Ontario’s iGaming model complies with Criminal Code, court rules · May 2024 decision
- PlayNow, BCLC
- Loto-Québec, online games
All sources consulted on October 6, 2026.