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Legal status by market

Per-market legal and regulatory status across North America — licensing authority, key facts and a dated regulatory timeline for Canada, Ontario, Alberta and the US.

Alberta

Alberta's regulated online gambling market, created by the iGaming Alberta Act (Bill 48, Royal Assent 15/05/2025), launches on 13/07/2026 under Alberta Gaming, Liquor and Cannabis (AGLC) as regulator and the new Alberta iGaming Corporation (AiGC) as commercial administrator. As of 25/06/2026, 46 corporate operators representing roughly 50 consumer-facing brands had registered — a snapshot that will keep changing through launch week.

Ontario

Ontario's licensed-only online-gambling market launched on 04/04/2022, regulated by the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario (AGCO) and run commercially through its subsidiary, iGaming Ontario (iGO). An Ipsos study commissioned by AGCO/iGO and reported in May 2026 found 91.1% of Ontario players used regulated platforms, up 7.4 percentage points year-on-year, with only 8.9% gambling solely on unregulated sites.

Canada

Canadian gambling law runs through section 207 of the Criminal Code, which lets a provincial government conduct and manage a lottery scheme (a term that covers casino games, sports betting and more) under its own provincial law — there is no single national online-gambling regulator. There is no federal offence for the individual player who bets at an offshore site, which is the legal root of most provinces' grey-tolerated posture; single-event sports betting was legalised nationally on 27/08/2021, and a 2016 Quebec attempt to force ISPs to block offshore gambling sites was struck down as unconstitutional by the Quebec Superior Court in 2018.

United States

The United States has no single federal online-gambling regulator: legality is decided state-by-state, layered with federal statutes including the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA, signed 13/10/2006) and the Wire Act. Online casino gaming is licensed in only a handful of states, while the Supreme Court's Murphy v. NCAA decision (14/05/2018) struck down the federal ban on state-authorised sports betting, opening a much wider state-by-state sports-betting map. Verdikt lists ZERO operators for the US — this page is authority/legality information only.