For readers in Alberta
This page is written for readers in Alberta, where the operators below are registered with the provincial regulator and where, as in Ontario, an affiliate may not advertise a bonus.
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Every number here is somebody's count, and this one is ours
Alberta keeps a register of "gaming registrants" (the companies, not the brands) and publishes no total for it, no "last updated" line and no count of the sites behind the names, which puts a page like this one in an awkward and rather useful position. Any figure a reader meets about this province, on our pages or on anybody else's, was produced by whoever wrote the page, and the only decent thing to do about that is to say so in the sentence where the figure stands; the alternative is a number nobody can audit.
Ontario is the opposite case, and the contrast carries this page. There the regulator (iGaming Ontario, for the commercial market) prints its own arithmetic with a date attached, and what passes here for a "market overview" has to be built by hand, by somebody willing to sign for it.
The objection, which is the right one to raise
If a regulator declines to publish a total, the obvious reply is that a commercial site publishing one has invented a figure to suit itself, and we would press that objection against any page in this trade, including this one. Only one answer means anything here, and it is not an assurance of good faith (anybody who wants one can write it).
The answer is the method, printed beside the figure: the source is the official "export" of registrants kept by Alberta Gaming, Liquor and Cannabis (a file anybody can download), the day of reading is 20 October 2026 (the date this page carries everywhere), and the same count run over the same file will land on the same two numbers. That is a weaker claim than Ontario's, and a far stronger one than a round figure with no "provenance" behind it.
The eight sites registered for Alberta
VisitRegistered with the AGLC for Alberta, 888 group entity
VisitBetway Canada
Registered with the AGLC for Alberta, Betway entity for the province
VisitRegistered with the AGLC for Alberta, Cadtree Limited
VisitMega Casino Alberta
Registered with the AGLC for Alberta, SkillOnNet Ltd
VisitRegistered with the AGLC for Alberta, Cadtree Limited
VisitRuby Fortune
Registered with the AGLC for Alberta, Cadtree Limited
VisitRegistered with the AGLC for Alberta, Cadtree Limited
VisitRegistered with the AGLC for Alberta, SkillOnNet Ltd
The rows above are the eight Alberta addresses with which this site has a commercial arrangement, and the sequence comes out of a file name rather than a judgement, so one row standing above another means nothing at all. Each carries the provincial authority and the company named on the registration (the only two things a register can settle) in the slot that such a page normally reserves for a number.
No row names a figure, and the reasoning for this province differs slightly from its neighbour's. Ontario publishes a numbered standard confining an "inducement" to the operator's own site and to marketing a player has agreed to receive; Alberta works through the "terms of registration" instead, which we have not seen published in that form, so the silence here rests on the owner's own choice, recorded on 20 October 2026, and on the Ontario rule standing next to it.
Forty-two registrations, and forty companies
Our count of the export gives forty-two registrations under the "operator" category and forty distinct company names behind them (two companies appear more than once), and both of those figures are ours rather than the regulator's (which keeps none). A reader who wants an official total will not find one; the plain reason is that no official total is kept.
The missing date matters quite as much as the missing total. A register with no revision line cannot be compared against itself a month later, so the only usable fact about any Alberta count is the day its author opened the file (20 October 2026, in our case), and a count without that day attached is not a count but a mood.
The column that cannot be counted at all
The field describing an operator's "site" is free text, holding domains in some rows and brand names in others, so no Alberta equivalent exists for a published count of "gaming sites". Anybody offering you one has either counted rows, which is a different quantity, or guessed, and the difference is invisible unless the page admits which.
Three registrations carry no site whatsoever (River Cree iGaming, Stake Canada and United Interactive), so a "brand-level" count would quietly lose them. One entry among the operators is "Play Alberta", the regulator's own site, and a page reading the list as a field of competitors ends up putting the referee on the pitch!
Cadtree Limited, three times over
Cadtree Limited appears in the export three separate times, with three different "expiry" dates (four brands, three permissions): one registration for Royal Vegas, one for Ruby Fortune, and one covering JackpotCity and Spin Casino together. Four of the eight rows above therefore sit under a single company and under three distinct permissions, which is a shape nobody would guess from the brands themselves.
That arrangement shows where a provincial registration actually attaches. It fastens to the company, and then to whichever group of brands the company put on one line, so a reader treating each casino as a separately vetted business has the structure upside down.
The address that looks official and is not one
One address in circulation, albertaigaming.ca, reads like an "official" property without being one, and no figure on this page comes from it. We name it because a near-miss address does more damage than an obviously wrong one (a reader checks the obvious error and stops at the plausible one), and because the same trick works on every market we write about.
Behind the counts above sit two sources only (no aggregator, no trade report), the regulator's own list and its own export, opened on the same day. Where either disagrees with a summary you find elsewhere, the register wins, and where the register says nothing this page says nothing with it.
Eighteen, and an address worth getting right
Alberta plays from eighteen (nineteen is the threshold one province to the east), and the provincial responsible-gambling site is gamesenseab.ca, where "GameSense" appears as a British Columbia Lottery Corporation trademark, licensed to the provincial regulator for use there. That page published no helpline number and named no provincial "self-exclusion" scheme on the day we opened it, 20 October 2026, which a reader is better off knowing before going to look for either.
The number that does exist is 211, reached by dialling, texting or chatting those three digits, and 211 Alberta calls itself free, confidential and answered live at any hour (we read that page the same day). Watch the spelling of the other one, because gamesense.ab.ca, which looks like the obvious form of the address, has no record in the domain system whatever.
What an Alberta reader can do with this
The habit worth keeping here is narrower than in a province whose regulator does the counting: when a page hands you a number about Alberta, look for the line naming the "counter" and the day, and read the absence of that line as the answer that it plainly is. Both of our figures carry both details, which is the least a reader should accept!
Questions
I use the same casino in Ontario. Is it the same site?
No. A brand registered in both provinces runs a separate site for each, and the link on this page goes to the Alberta one. Changing province means changing page, and an account does not follow you across.
Why is the minimum age here different from Ontario's?
Because the age is provincial. Alberta sets it at eighteen and Ontario at nineteen, and every figure on each page follows the province it is written for.