Editorial policy at Verified Gambling Sites Canada
The word 'verified' carries specific editorial weight on this site. We publish only platforms that have passed our fact-checking process. What that process involves is explained here, so you can judge whether our methods are adequate for the purpose.
Our editorial team has experience in regulated gambling market analysis, financial journalism, and platform auditing. Every reviewer who contributes to this site has personally opened and tested a funded account on at least one gambling platform before writing about that type of product. We treat each gambling site as a product that either meets or fails a documented standard, and we publish the outcome either way, without adjustment for any commercial relationship.
Verification in our context has precise meaning. For a gambling licence, verification means checking the issuing authority's public register — not trusting a seal displayed on the homepage. For withdrawal performance, it means completing a real withdrawal from a test account, not repeating a figure from an operator's FAQ. For responsible-gaming tools, it means navigating to each feature and confirming it works as described.
This site participates in affiliate programmes and earns commissions when readers register at gambling sites via our links. We are transparent about this commercial arrangement because it allows you to assess our recommendations with the full picture in mind. Commission rates are not visible to the people writing and scoring our reviews, and an operator that offers a generous commission earns the same score as one that offers nothing if the evidence produces that outcome.
Ranking order is determined by numerical scores derived from our evaluation criteria. The criteria are applied identically for every site regardless of the size of the commercial relationship between us and that operator. There is no manual override of rankings based on commercial considerations, personal preference, or operator communications. Where platforms score identically, the tiebreaker is their relative standing on player-protection criteria.
When a correction is warranted — whether identified internally or submitted by a reader — we apply it, record the date, and note what changed. We do not roll back findings under pressure from operators. A site that disagrees with its score can submit factual evidence; if the evidence supports a revision, we make one.
Our review dates matter because gambling sites change over time. We operate a rolling review schedule and prioritise re-evaluation when players report significant changes to a platform's practices. The date on each review reflects the most recent hands-on verification session, not the date the page was first published.
The Verified Gambling Sites Canada scoring method is set out in how we rate; the people applying it are listed under our reviewers, and the money behind the site is explained in about and affiliate disclosure.