Alberta · AGLC and Alberta iGaming Corporation
For readers in Alberta
Alberta opened its own market in July 2026, under rules on affiliates and inducements modelled on Ontario's and a minimum age one year lower. What follows is the list for readers there.
A market four months old, and a rule it borrowed whole
Alberta opened its private online market on 13 July 2026, and it did so by taking the Ontario model almost unchanged: operators registered with the regulator, an "operating agreement" with a provincial corporation, and a public register of the sites that may accept a player (fifty-one of them when we last read it). The one visible difference is the age, which here is eighteen rather than nineteen (a year lower, on a market otherwise copied line for line).
The rule that governs this page came with the model, and it is the standards that carry it. The standards the regulator codified on 18 June 2026 allow an "inducement" to be communicated only on the operator's own site and in direct messages to a player who has consented, and affiliate content is not among the permitted channels. The practical consequence for a page like this one is identical to the one across the provincial border (the same rule, written by a different regulator).
No card below carries a figure in its offer box, which instead points at the only lawful place for one, the licensee's own "gaming site". We would rather tell you that the omission is a rule than let you read it as modesty: a page that hid its reason would be making a claim about itself (a claim of "restraint") that is not true.
Trial play goes unmentioned in the provincial standards, and the silence is a finding worth stating rather than a gap worth hiding. Nothing there obliges a licensee to check an age before a free game starts, nothing requires the free version to match the paid one on its odds, and the phrase "free-to-play" appears nowhere in the text: what Alberta regulates is the inducement, not the trial.
A brand that is registered in two provinces has a link in each
Five of the brands below are registered in Alberta and in Ontario at the same time, and each province has its own site: the link on this page goes to the "Alberta" version of the site, the link on the Ontario page goes to the Ontario one, and a player who moves between the provinces changes page as well as address. It is not a formality. A provincial site will not accept a player sitting in the other province, and a link that crossed the line would send somebody to an account he cannot open.
AGCO, with iGaming Ontario
- Demo games≈ game by game
- No sign-up? not verified
- No deposit? on the operator’s site
- Free tourneys? not verified
- Registered with Alberta iGaming Corporation, and listed on its public register
- Runs on Games Global, where a demo opens, though game by game
- Licence read on the authority’s own register
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AGCO, with iGaming Ontario
- Demo games≈ game by game
- No sign-up? not verified
- No deposit? on the operator’s site
- Free tourneys? not verified
- Registered with Alberta iGaming Corporation, and listed on its public register
- Runs on Games Global, where a demo opens, though game by game
- Licence read on the authority’s own register
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AGCO, with iGaming Ontario
- Demo games≈ game by game
- No sign-up? not verified
- No deposit? on the operator’s site
- Free tourneys? not verified
- Registered with Alberta iGaming Corporation, and listed on its public register
- Runs on Games Global, where a demo opens, though game by game
- Licence read on the authority’s own register
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AGCO, with iGaming Ontario
- Demo games≈ game by game
- No sign-up? not verified
- No deposit? on the operator’s site
- Free tourneys? not verified
- Registered with Alberta iGaming Corporation, and listed on its public register
- Runs on Games Global, where a demo opens, though game by game
- Licence read on the authority’s own register
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AGCO, with iGaming Ontario
- Demo games≈ not in all games
- No sign-up? not verified
- No deposit? on the operator’s site
- Free tourneys? not verified
- Registered with Alberta iGaming Corporation, and listed on its public register
- Runs on Betway, where a demo opens, though not in all games
- Licence read on the authority’s own register
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AGLC, with Alberta iGaming Corporation
- Demo games≈ selected games only
- No sign-up✕ verified account
- No deposit? on the operator’s site
- Free tourneys? not verified
- Registered with Alberta iGaming Corporation, and listed on its public register
- Runs on SkillOnNet, where a demo opens, though selected games only
- Licence read on the authority’s own register
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AGLC, with Alberta iGaming Corporation
- Demo games≈ selected games only
- No sign-up✕ verified account
- No deposit? on the operator’s site
- Free tourneys? not verified
- Registered with Alberta iGaming Corporation, and listed on its public register
- Runs on SkillOnNet, where a demo opens, though selected games only
- Licence read on the authority’s own register
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The whole register, not only the part that pays us
Alberta iGaming Corporation publishes the list of every registered site, and it is the list worth reading: it contains the operators this page does not carry, and the reader can check it without us. We publish the address rather than a copy, because a copy of a register is out of date the day the register changes. The register of sites, read on 19 October 2026, listed 51 sites, against 48 five days earlier.
What the register said when we read it, and why the date matters
The register of "registered iGaming sites" that Alberta iGaming Corporation publishes listed fifty-one of them when we read it on 19 October 2026, against forty-eight five days earlier. A register that moves by three entries in five days has to be read on the day, which is the reason this page carries the address (abigaming.ca) rather than a copy of the list.
That reading settled a question the documents had left open. A platform operator whose Alberta "registration" was declared only in the terms of its own two sites turned out to be in the public list after all (at entries forty-six and forty-seven), which is the kind of confirmation that a primary source gives and a secondary one never quite does.
It also corrected a number we had been carrying ourselves, and the correction is worth recounting. Our own asset file gave the provincial age as nineteen, the legal map gave it as eighteen ("18", in the regulator's own standards), and the standards settle the matter; the map was right, and the lesson is that a figure copied twice is still worth only as much as the reading behind it.
There is one more reason an affiliate page in this province looks thin beside the same page written for an open market.
The operator, not the affiliate, answers to the regulator for what the affiliate publishes, so an operator that works with a site carrying unregistered brands is the one that pays (and pays in registrations, not in fines), which is why registered operators enforce the rule more briskly than any regulator could.
The help services, and one address that does not exist
The responsible gambling programme for the province is GameSense, and the standards require its address to appear in advertising material, which makes it one of the rare items on a market page of ours that a rule itself demands. The address is "gamesenseab.ca", and it repays a little care: the form "gamesense.ab.ca", which circulates widely and which our own files once carried, has no record in the domain name system at all and resolves to nothing.
That is not a bibliographic nicety, and it is not a detail. It is the address a reader looks for at the moment he needs help, and an address that does not resolve is worse than no address, because it looks like a service and behaves like a dead end; every help link on this site is now resolved before publication rather than copied out of a document.
The rest of the provincial services are straightforward enough to list in a line: 211 Alberta for referral, the addiction helpline on 1-866-332-2322 (free, and staffed at any hour), and self-exclusion either at "selfexclusion.ca" or directly with the regulator on 1-844-468-8034 (by telephone, or by writing to the address the regulator publishes). The minimum age is eighteen, and it applies to the free version of a game exactly as it applies to the game played for money!