If you've noticed Canadian casino review sites and ads no longer plaster incentive offers everywhere, there's a reason. Since January 2026, a national advertising code, alongside rules that already applied in Ontario, stops operators and affiliate sites from using inducements to pull traffic. Offers can only be shown to you on the casino's own site, or after you've registered and consented.
The thinking is straightforward: headline offers were the single biggest driver of impulse sign-ups, and the fine print (wagering conditions, withdrawal caps, expiry windows) consistently surprised the players who chased them. Moving offers behind the front door means the decision to join a casino gets made on the things that actually matter long-term.
Which is, frankly, how we'd rather rank casinos anyway: how fast they pay out, how their verification process treats you, what the game library and live tables look like, whether the app is any good, and how support behaves when something goes wrong. Those factors don't expire after your first deposit.
What it means in practice: when you visit any casino through our rankings, check its current offers directly on its own site once you're there — that's where they now legally live. And if a third-party site is still shouting incentive deals at Canadian players, treat it as a signal about how carefully that site follows the rules in general.