About the Desk

One question, asked over and over

Strawberry Quest exists to answer a question that sounds simple and almost never is: what is actually legal where you live? Canada has no single online gambling rulebook. The Criminal Code hands the conduct and management of lottery schemes to the provinces and territories, and each of them has made a different call. Ontario runs an open licensed market. British Columbia, Quebec, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and the Atlantic provinces route legal play through their own lottery corporations. The result is a country where the same website can be a regulated product in one province and an unregulated grey-market one two time zones away.

That is the whole reason this desk keeps a ledger instead of a review column. A ledger records what a document says, on a date, with a source you can go read for yourself.

What we cover, and what we deliberately do not

We work through four sections: provincial rules and geolocation, player protection requirements, bonus and wagering terms, and the licensing status of casinos that accept Canadian players. Each entry starts from a primary document — a regulator’s published standards, a lottery corporation’s own help pages, or an operator’s live terms and conditions — and translates it into language a person can act on.

What you will not find here is a score. There is no rating out of ten, no “best casino” table, no aggregate player rating in our page markup, and no payout percentage we did not get from a published audit. We have no test bankroll and no panel of players, so any number we invented would be exactly that: invented. When the public record is thin or contradictory, the entry says so rather than smoothing it over.

Who we are not

We are not lawyers, and nothing on this site is legal advice. We are not licensed financial or addiction advisors. We are not a regulator, we do not certify anyone, and we have no authority to resolve a dispute between a player and a casino — the licensing notes explain who does. We are also not neutral about money: some links on this site can pay us a commission, and the how we earn page sets out in plain terms what that commission does and does not buy.

The desk is small and we would rather say that than imply a newsroom. If an entry is wrong, one person will read your email and fix it. The verification and corrections policy describes exactly how that works, and Get in Touch tells you where to send it.