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Legal online casinos in Canada: who may offer them, by province

Legal online casinos in Canada are those a province runs or authorizes: the Criminal Code leaves online gambling to the provincial governments, and each one has chosen its own model. Ontario and Alberta licence private operators under a regulator, while British Columbia, Quebec, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and the Atlantic provinces run a single government platform.

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Operators contracted by iGaming Ontario

The directory is dated 6 November 2026; it lists 48 operators.

Legal online casinos by province: who decides

The Ontario list above follows the iGaming Ontario directory by legal entity, and each company name opens a page of its own. The table below gives the body that regulates gambling, the platform players use and the minimum age, province by province.

ProvinceWho regulatesPlatformMinimum age
OntarioAlcohol and Gaming Commission of OntarioPrivate operators contracted by iGaming Ontario, plus OLG19
AlbertaAlberta Gaming, Liquor and CannabisPrivate operators with an Alberta iGaming Corporation agreement, plus Play Alberta18
British ColumbiaIndependent Gambling Control OfficePlayNow, run by BCLC19
QuebecLoto-Québec acts as the province's agentEspacejeux, run by Loto-Québec18
Manitoba and SaskatchewanLiquor, Gaming & Cannabis Authority of Manitoba; Saskatchewan Indian Gaming AuthorityPlayNow in each province18 in Manitoba, 19 in Saskatchewan
Atlantic provincesProvincial governmentsAtlantic Lottery19 in Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island
Yukon, Northwest Territories, NunavutTerritorial governmentsWestern Canada Lottery Corporation18 under WCLC policy

Where the Kahnawake licence fits

Some casinos that take Canadian players hold no provincial approval and name a licence from the Kahnawake Gaming Commission, a body in the Mohawk Territory of Kahnawà:ke. That licence covers gaming within and from the territory and is a different thing from a provincial one. The Kahnawake licence page sets out what the Commission says it issues, and the offshore casinos page lists permit holders from its own list.

What the law says in one place

Section 207 of the Criminal Code is the source of the provincial model, and its wording is summarized on the page about section 207. The legal question in plain terms is answered separately for operators and for players. Because each province decides for itself who may operate and on what conditions, the same casino can sit in one province's register and be absent from every other. Ontario is the one province whose register is reproduced here company by company, since its regulator and iGaming Ontario publish the full directory.

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