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Raices Verdes began at a kitchen table in Toronto, in a Spanish-speaking household, with a question nobody there could answer: the site the money had gone into looked Canadian, sounded Canadian, and turned out to be regulated by nobody in Canada at all. Working out who exactly was supposed to be responsible took an afternoon and produced a page of notes. Those notes are this site.

The scope, and its edges

One question gets answered here, in four steps: which body actually licenses a given operator, and what that is worth to somebody sitting in a particular province. The province part is the whole trick. Canadian gambling law is provincial, so the same licence can be a consumer protection in one place and a piece of paper from another continent in the next.

What sits outside those edges, deliberately: we do not rank, score or order operators, we do not run a review widget or quote testimonials, and we do not take stakes or hold accounts — you cannot gamble on this site because it is a guide, not an operator. We also do not give legal advice. Reading a public register is not the same as interpreting the law, and where a question needs a lawyer we say so instead of guessing.

Where the money comes from

One place: commission on some links out to operators, set out in the disclosure. There is nothing else — no display advertising, no paid placement, no arrangement where a company sees a page before it goes up. The uncomfortable version, said plainly: a guide that earns from the industry it writes about has to be worth reading anyway, which is why the method is published and every finding can be repeated by the reader.

Registration, and what we are not

Writing about gambling is not a licensable gambling activity in Canada, so this site holds no gaming registration and does not pretend to. The duties that do apply are the ordinary publishing ones: be accurate about who regulates whom, keep the material away from people below the legal age, never suggest that gambling solves a money problem, and never describe an offer without the terms attached to it.

Where a page names a regulator, it says which register was consulted and on what date, and links it, so a reader can go and look rather than take our word for it. That is the only kind of authority a guide like this can honestly have.

Getting it wrong

It will happen: provincial policy moves, companies are renamed, registrations are granted and withdrawn. When it does, the page is fixed and keeps a dated line saying what changed, and a correction that reverses a finding goes at the top rather than the bottom. Send one to the address on the contact page and you will get an answer, including when we think you are wrong.

Who does the work: the author page.