Why a book publisher reviews Canadian online casinos
The honest answer is that our readers asked. The longer answer is that a casino review and a travel guide are the same job.
For a decade our best-selling books sent people to places nobody else wrote about: a pasty shop in the Upper Peninsula, a motel with a bowling alley in the basement. The method was simple. Go, pay your own way, notice what a visitor would notice, and write it down without adjectives you could not defend. Readers trusted the books because the books did not need the places to be good.
When we moved online and asked those readers what to cover next, a lot of them were Canadian, and a lot of them mentioned online casinos, usually with a complaint attached: the existing reviews all read like advertising. Every casino was "top rated". Every bonus was "huge". Nobody said what 200x wagering meant in dollars.
That gap is one we know how to fill. So the leisure desk started where Canadian players actually are, with two of the longest-running brands open to them: Luxury Casino, which launched in 2011, and Yukon Gold Casino, online since 2004. Both belong to the Casino Rewards group, both hold Kahnawake Gaming Commission licences, both have been taking Canadian deposits for a long time. That history is useful to a reviewer: there is a track record to check.
Our rules
- We deposit and withdraw our own money before publishing a verdict.
- We state wagering requirements in plain arithmetic, not adjectives.
- We say when a link is a link to the operator, and we do not change the verdict for it.
- We update a review when the offer, the licence or the game library changes, and we show the date.
- We put the responsible gaming information where you can see it, not in a footer you have to hunt for.
If that sounds like a travel guide with a different subject, good. That is what it is.