Marguerite Thibodeau
Editor
Marguerite Thibodeau
Canadian Gaming Regulation Editor • Halifax, Nova Scotia
Background
Marguerite Thibodeau writes about the mechanics of Canadian gambling regulation: who licenses whom, what a provincial registration actually obliges an operator to do, and where the protections stop. She came to the subject through consumer finance reporting, which is where the habit of reading the conditions before the advertisement comes from.
What she covers here
- Provincial frameworks, including Ontario's AGCO registration regime and the iGaming Alberta Act market that opened in July 2026
- Casino bonus terms: wagering multiples, game weighting, maximum bet rules and cashout caps
- Canadian casino banking, with a standing interest in the gap between Interac deposit support and Interac withdrawal support
- Verification, self-exclusion and what recourse is actually available when a dispute escalates at a foreign-licensed operator
How she works
Every figure she publishes comes from a source she can point at, and every term an operator keeps to itself is marked as missing rather than estimated. She does not publish payout-speed claims on this site because no withdrawal testing has been run on this lineup. Where two of our own sources disagree on a commercial figure, she goes back to the operator instead of taking the newer number.
Contact
Corrections and questions reach her through the contact page. If a figure on the best online casinos in Canada page is wrong, that is the fastest way to get it fixed.