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What goes into a casino file
Every casino we list has a file in our database. It records the operating company and licence named by the casino, the welcome package offered to Canadian players, the wagering requirement and minimum deposit, the payment methods available from Canada and the game studios in the lobby. When two sources disagree, the file keeps both figures and the lower-confidence number is not used on the site.
Where the numbers come from
Casino websites show different offers depending on where the visitor connects from, so welcome packages are checked on independent Canadian review portals that publish offers in Canadian dollars. Licence details come from the casino’s own footer and the public registries of regulators such as iGaming Ontario and the Kahnawake Gaming Commission.
How the order of a list is set
Each list starts from the casinos that match the topic of the page: a payment method, a game, a studio or a province. The order then weighs the size of the welcome package, how long the brand has been on the market, licensing and how often independent Canadian portals list the brand. Lists differ from page to page because the matching casinos differ.
Advertising disclosure
Gamble Investigations is free to read. It earns money from casinos, through referral agreements, and the paragraphs below set out how that works and where its influence stops.
The mechanism. Some casinos in our files run partner programmes that we have joined. Their buttons on our pages, usually labelled Visit site, pass through a gambleinvestigations.com/go/ address that tells the casino the player arrived from us. Should that visit end in a new account with money in it, the casino may credit us a one-off amount per new depositor or a percentage of the revenue it earns from those players over time, depending on the programme. A few programmes combine both.
What it costs you. Nothing. The payment comes out of the casino's marketing budget. The package, wagering and limits are the same as when you reach the casino on your own; if you find that a casino offers less to visitors coming from our links, report it and we will remove the link.
Where commission does reach. We can only place a working Visit site button for casinos whose programmes have accepted us, and we prioritise those casinos in our lists. Readers should know that our lists are therefore not a census of every casino available to Canadians. Some well-known brands appear in files and archived reviews without a button because we have no agreement with them.
Where it does not reach. No casino can pay to change the figures in its file, and a casino whose welcome package figure we cannot confirm is left out of lists whatever it pays. The terms shown in a file are the terms we verified, not those a partner would prefer. Editors are not paid by sign-ups, casinos do not see a file before it goes live, and a partner that stops paying players on time or loses its licence is moved down or removed. When a programme closes, its /go/ address is switched off.
The /go/ visit. Following a tracked button writes two technical cookies on our domain that expire after roughly twenty hours, on top of the two the site uses everywhere; the full set of four is tabulated in our data and cookies notice. Links to regulators, help services, studios and payment providers are never tracked.
Questions about our commercial agreements go to [email protected]. The company receiving the commission is Ponientix Networks Limited, the operator of this site.
Corrections
Offers change often. If you find a figure that no longer matches the casino’s terms, write to us through the contact page and we will re-check the file.