Editorial policy at Approved Casinos Canada

The 'approved' designation on this site is earned, not purchased. Our editorial process begins with a baseline check: a Kahnawake licence on record, RTP audit certificates issued by a recognized independent laboratory, and a complaints profile that does not show a pattern of systemic player harm.

Reviewers who pass the baseline proceed to full hands-on evaluation. Each reviewer deposits real money, plays across slot and table categories, tests customer support at different times of day, initiates a withdrawal, and documents the time from request to funds received in their account. No review is based on a demo account or operator-supplied access.

Affiliate commission income funds the research budget for this site. Operators pay us a fee when a reader registers through one of our links. This fee arrangement is openly disclosed here and in our terms of service. The commission rate an operator offers has no bearing on where it lands in our approved list.

Ranking is determined by a scorecard with weighted categories: licensing integrity, RTP configuration, payout speed, bonus-term fairness, and customer-support quality. Each category has a fixed maximum score that contributes to the total. The total score places the casino in the ranking; no individual category can be traded against another through negotiation.

Corrections to published reviews are handled systematically. When a reader identifies an error and we confirm it, the page is updated with a note showing the correction date and the nature of the change. Errors that affect the scorecard trigger a full re-review under the current methodology.

Operators are notified when their casino is added to or removed from our approved list, and they may submit information they believe we should consider in a future re-review. That information is held to the same evidential standard as anything our own reviewers gather; it cannot substitute for hands-on personal testing.

Our approval process runs in two stages. The first is a documentation check: licence valid, audit current, no unresolved regulatory actions listed against the operator. The second is a live evaluation: a reviewer plays at the casino, uses the cashier, contacts support, and records every outcome with time stamps. Only casinos that clear both stages appear in our approved list. Documentation without live evaluation is insufficient, because the paper record often diverges from the actual player experience, and the divergence typically favours the operator rather than the player.

The Approved Casinos Canada scoring method is set out in how we rate; the people applying it are listed under our reviewers, and the money behind the site is explained in about and affiliate disclosure.