Is online casino play legal in Ontario?
Yes, through registered operators. Ontario opened a regulated iGaming market on 4 April 2022. A private operator must be registered with the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario and must also hold an operating agreement with iGaming Ontario, the agency that conducts and manages the market. Every operator on this site meets both tests and appears on the iGO operator directory, which listed 48 operators and 82 gaming websites when we last read it. Ontario Lottery and Gaming also runs its own regulated site alongside the private market.
How old do I have to be, and do I have to be in Ontario?
You must be 19 or older and physically located in Ontario to play with an operator registered here. Registered operators verify both, and accounts opened below the legal age can be closed and winnings voided. If you are outside Ontario, the operators on this page are not open to you and your province’s lottery corporation is the regulated route.
Why does this site not list welcome offers?
Because the AGCO Registrar’s Standards for Internet Gaming do not allow it. Standard 2.05 restricts advertising or promoting inducements, bonuses and credits to an operator’s own gaming site, or to direct marketing where the player has actively consented to receive it. Standard 2.06 bars describing anything as “free” or “risk-free” when it is not, and Standard 1.19 makes the operator answerable for what its affiliates publish. A public comparison page is neither the operator’s own site nor consented direct marketing, so any offer available to you appears on the operator’s site after sign-up.
Has the regulator actually enforced that?
Repeatedly. The AGCO fined BetMGM Canada C$48,000 in 2022 and a further C$110,000 in March 2025 for advertising cash inducements to new customers, and fined DraftKings’ Ontario entity C$100,000 in June 2022 over broad public gaming inducements. Unibet and PointsBet have also been penalised. Those decisions are the reason this site’s public pages carry no offer figures at all.
What do you publish instead?
Facts a reader can check: the registered corporate entity behind each brand, its AGCO registration and iGO agreement, the Ontario-facing URL and whether our own fetch of it succeeded, the year the Ontario product launched, whether a documented affiliate programme exists, and any AGCO monetary penalty on the public record. Where an operator does not publish something — game counts, withdrawal timeframes, support hours — we say so rather than estimating.
Do you get paid, and does it change your ranking?
Yes, we may be paid commission when a reader opens an account through our links, and no, it does not change the ranking. The order is produced by six weighted criteria described in our methodology, none of which is promotional generosity. The clearest evidence is that our top-ranked operator also carries the two AGCO penalties that hold its regulatory score down, and our lowest-ranked operator carries the single largest one.
What is RTP, and why do the numbers differ between casinos?
Return to player is the long-run theoretical percentage of stakes a game returns across millions of spins. Providers certify more than one version of the same game and the operator chooses which to deploy: Book of Dead exists at 96.21% and also at 94.25%, 91.25%, 87.25% and 84.18%. Mega Moolah’s base RTP is 88.12%, with roughly 5.3–8.8% of stakes going to the progressive jackpot pool. Always check the RTP shown in the game’s own information panel.
How current is this list?
Registration status was checked against the iGaming Ontario operator directory and every Ontario URL was re-fetched on 31 July 2026; the result of each fetch, including the failures, is printed beside the brand. Operators are added to and removed from the directory regularly. If you find something that has moved, email [email protected] and we will correct it.