About Casiloon in one sentence: it is an independent guide to the online casinos that hold a provincial registration in Canada, and only those. Every site we cover is listed by the regulator of the province it serves, and every claim we make about it points back to a document.
This page explains who publishes Casiloon, how the site is paid for, what it refuses to publish and where the name comes from. If you want the scoring rules themselves, they live on a separate page linked further down.
The gap Casiloon was built to fill
Canadians can reach hundreds of casino sites from a phone, yet private operators can run regulated online casinos in just two provinces: Ontario since April 2022 and Alberta since July 2026. Many of the sites that rank well in search or advertise heavily are licensed somewhere else entirely, and nothing on their homepage says so plainly.
Many comparison pages aimed at Canadian players still lead with welcome offers. In both regulated provinces, those offers cannot be advertised outside the casino’s own site, so a ranking built on them says very little about the registered market. Casiloon starts from the other end: is the site in the provincial list, what do its terms say, and how does it treat a player who wants to withdraw or take a break.
Who is behind Casiloon
Casiloon is published by a small independent publisher based in Europe. No casino operator, affiliate network or gambling group owns any part of it. The same person writes and checks every page, signing as Riley, the editor who signs our reviews; that page explains how the work is done and where the experience behind it comes from.
Running a Canadian guide from Europe is less unusual than it sounds. The regulated markets we know best work on the same principles as Ontario and Alberta: a public register, strict advertising rules and mandatory tools for players. Before going live, we also asked the Ontario regulator in writing whether the site needed to register; the answer is summarised on our method page.
Affiliate links in plain terms
Reading Casiloon costs nothing, and the site carries no paid advertising. It is funded by affiliate commissions: when someone signs up at a casino through one of our links, the casino may pay us a fee or a share of what it earns from that account. You pay nothing extra, and the casino’s terms are exactly the same as if you had typed its address yourself.
How the money comes in
- A fee or a revenue share from a casino when someone signs up through our link
- Nothing from readers: no subscriptions, no paywall, no extra cost at the casino
What money never buys
- A review, a better score or a softer verdict
- A higher place in a list, or a mention on a page
- The removal of a fact a casino would rather not see published
Links that can earn us a commission are tagged as sponsored in the page code, which is how Google asks sites to label them, and every page that contains one says so near the top. Scores follow our published rating method, and a registered casino without any commercial agreement with us can still be reviewed and ranked on the same terms as the others.
Where Casiloon’s coverage starts and where it is heading
Coverage begins with Ontario, the province with the longest-running regulated market, and our guide to Ontario’s registered casino sites is where the first reviews are collected. Alberta comes next: its market opened to private operators on July 13, 2026, and we are waiting for the provincial regulator’s answer to the same question we asked in Ontario before publishing reviews there.
The site starts with online casinos. Sports betting may follow in the same two provinces, and a French version is under consideration should Quebec ever open its market the same way. Each new section will follow the same rule as the rest: provincial registration first, everything else after.
None of these is a matter of taste. Each one either breaks provincial rules, sends players outside the protections their province requires, or makes it harder to read a page for what it is.
Things you will never see on Casiloon
- Casinos that are missing from the Ontario or Alberta register, whatever licence they show from elsewhere
- Welcome bonuses, free spin banners or promo codes
- Sweepstakes or “social” casinos presented as a way to win real money
- Sponsored articles dressed up as editorial pages
- Pop-ups, countdown timers or any other pressure to sign up before you have read the terms
Why a loon sits on our casino chip
The name joins two words: casino, and loon, the bird on the back of Canada’s one-dollar coin. The Royal Canadian Mint introduced that coin in 1987 to replace the one-dollar bill, with a loon designed by wildlife artist Robert-Ralph Carmichael, and Canadians nicknamed it the loonie almost at once.
It felt right for a guide about money and play in Canada. The logo puts the loon inside a casino chip, and the dotted ring around it is a reminder that every site we cover has to sit inside a provincial framework first.
How to reach Casiloon
Questions, corrections and complaints about a page all go through the same form. Send us a message with the page address and what needs fixing, and you will get a reply once it has been checked. Casinos are welcome to write too: being listed is free, it is never for sale, and it requires an entry in the provincial register.
To compare the sites that pass that test, head to the Casiloon homepage.