How we rate casinos for Canadian players
Every casino in the catalogue gets the same record, read from its own pages: cashier, banking FAQ, terms and bonus terms. The score is built from that record only. Nothing a player posts, and nothing an affiliate program pays, goes into it.
What we read
- Minimum deposit, and whether a lower first deposit applies.
- Canadian payment methods named for Canada: Interac e-Transfer in and out, other wallets that pay out to Canadians, crypto.
- Withdrawal timeline as published: the pending period, processing, and the time each method takes after that. We add the stages and take the upper end for the fastest method a Canadian can use.
- Verification: what the casino asks for and whether it says when.
- Licence: the regulator and licence number printed in the casino’s own footer or terms.
- Bonus terms: wagering, time limit, maximum bet and caps on winnings.
Scoring
The scale is relative. For each criterion, the best value among the casinos we checked for Canada scores 10 and the weakest scores 5; everything else sits on a straight line between them. A missing figure scores 5, because a casino that doesn’t publish a number shouldn’t beat one that does.
| Criterion | Weight | Scores 10 | Scores 5 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Published payout time | 35% | shortest total for a Canadian method | longest total, or not published |
| Minimum deposit | 15% | lowest first deposit | highest |
| Canadian methods | 15% | Interac both ways plus a Canadian-usable wallet | the fewest local options |
| Verification | 10% | a published amount that triggers ID checks | not stated (6) |
| Licence | 10% | regulator and licence number in its own terms | none printed |
| Bonus terms | 15% | lowest wagering among published offers | highest wagering |
Methods count as points: Interac deposits 4, Interac withdrawals 3, another wallet that pays out to Canada 2, crypto 1. The casino with the most points scores 10. Verification scores 9 when the casino says checks happen at the first withdrawal. A licence named without a number scores 8. A casino without a published bonus scores 7.5 on bonus terms.
The total is the weighted sum, rounded to one decimal. Because the scale is relative, scores move when we add a casino with a better number. The date on each page tells you when its numbers were read.
Order of the list
The ranking is sorted by score. When two casinos tie, the one with the shorter published payout time comes first. Commissions don’t change the order.
Which casinos get ranked
A casino gets a place in the ranking only when three things are true: it has an affiliate program that accepts Canadian websites, the program has no unresolved non-payment reports from affiliates on AffiliateGuardDog or GPWA, and no retroactive change of terms against affiliates is documented. We check this before a casino enters the ranking and again every six weeks.
Casinos that don’t pass, or that we couldn’t check fully, stay in the catalogue under “Checked, not ranked yet”, with the same facts and a link to the casino, but no score. That label is about the affiliate side. It doesn’t say the casino treats players badly.
Ontario
Ontario licenses its own online casinos through the AGCO and iGaming Ontario. The casinos in our ranking are not registered for Ontario, and some of their brands run separate Ontario sites. If you select Ontario, or your connection comes from Ontario, our links send you to the Ontario page instead of a casino.
What we haven’t done yet
We haven’t yet deposited our own money and timed a withdrawal to a Canadian bank. Until we do, “payout time” on this site means the time the casino publishes, and each page says so. The checks were made from outside Canada, so each review lists what we couldn’t see, such as cashier options shown only after login.
Corrections
If a casino changes a number, or you think we read one wrong, write to hello@provincecasinos.com. We recheck the source and update the page and its date.