The terms, not the figure
What a welcome offer actually obliges you to do
This page carries no bonus amounts, on any row. What it carries instead is the arithmetic a welcome offer sets in motion, a calculator that works it out in your browser, and the type of landing page each link opens.
An offer is a contract, and the figure is its least informative term
Every welcome offer in this trade is presented the same way, which is as a quantity (a number, a percentage, a currency symbol). A number sits at the top in the largest type on the page, a percentage ("100 %", usually) sits beside it, and the conditions deciding what the number is worth sit several clicks away in a document nobody reads before depositing. The presentation is so uniform across the market (sixteen of the sixteen sites we read follow it) that it has stopped being a choice and become a "convention".
The convention survives because the quantity is the part that is easy to compare and the conditions are the part that is hard, and a market will always compete on the easy comparison if a reader lets it. Two offers of the same size can differ by a factor of two in what they oblige a player to stake (the "base" clause does it, and it is one line long), and nothing on the surface of either of them shows it.
That is the whole reason we publish no amounts anywhere on this site: a figure without its "wagering" multiple is not information at all, and a figure with its multiple attached is a calculation rather than a headline (which is why the thing below is a calculator).
What follows is that calculation, in the form of a tool which does the arithmetic in the reader's own browser and sends nothing to anybody. Of the sixteen Canadian comparison sites we read on the twentieth of October 2026, three carried a tool of any kind (a "calculator", in each case for odds rather than bonuses), and not one of them worked out what a bonus asks a player to stake. Three out of sixteen, and zero of the three!
What a wagering requirement actually asks of you
Of the sixteen Canadian comparison sites we read, three carry a tool of any kind and not one of them works out how much a bonus asks you to stake. This one does, in your browser, and sends nothing anywhere.
—The figure is the total you must stake, not the amount you lose: at a return of ninety-six per cent, a stake of that size costs about four per cent of it on average.
The objection, which is that we are paid to send you to these offers
The arrangement here should be said before the method and not after it. The buttons on this page are commercial, marked "sponsored" in the markup, and paid on registration (a "cost per acquisition" arrangement, in the trade's language). A page explaining how to read an offer while being paid per registration has an obvious interest in a reader's reaching the end of the explanation and then clicking the "Open" button anyway.
Our answer is that the calculator above works against the offers below it, which is an odd thing for a paid page to carry. A reader who puts a hundred-dollar bonus at thirty-five times into those four fields and sees "three thousand five hundred" come out (three thousand five hundred dollars of stake, for a hundred dollars of credit) is less likely to register rather than more, and we have built the thing that costs us money instead of the thing that makes it. The incentive runs the wrong way and that is the point of it!
The limit of the method is that we take the multiples from the operators and from the programme sheets rather than from our own accounts. Where a figure appears anywhere on this site, the party who published it is named beside it. Nothing here is a measurement of ours, because we hold no accounts at these casinos (a limit of the method, and a real one).
- Licence on the recordMalta Gaming Authority ·MGA/CRP/130/2006 ·Betway Limitedread on 2026-10-21 · public register
- Canadian siteyes, a Canadian landing page
- FrenchEnglish only
- Provincial sitenone
- PlatformBetway, Super Group
Landing page: welcome offer on the first depositLanding page named in the operator's programme link sheet, 14 October 2026. We publish no amounts.
Open Betway CanadaOur page on itCommercial link · 19+ (18+ in AB, MB, QC) · operator’s terms apply · checked 21.10.2026
- Licence on the recordAlderney Gambling Control Commission, category 1 ·Baytree (Alderney) Limitedread on 2026-10-21 · public register
- Canadian siteyes, a Canadian landing page
- Frenchyes, a French-Canadian page
- Provincial sitenone
- PlatformGames Global platform, Super Group
Landing page: the operator’s Canadian home pageLanding page named in the operator's programme link sheet, 14 October 2026. We publish no amounts.
Open Jackpot City CasinoOur page on itCommercial link · 19+ (18+ in AB, MB, QC) · operator’s terms apply · checked 21.10.2026
- Licence on the recordAlderney Gambling Control Commission, category 1 ·Baytree (Alderney) Limitedread on 2026-10-21 · public register
- Canadian siteyes, a Canadian landing page
- Frenchyes, a French-Canadian page
- Provincial sitenone
- PlatformGames Global platform, Super Group
Landing page: the operator’s Canadian home pageLanding page named in the operator's programme link sheet, 14 October 2026. We publish no amounts.
Open Spin CasinoOur page on itCommercial link · 19+ (18+ in AB, MB, QC) · operator’s terms apply · checked 21.10.2026
- Licence on the recordAlderney Gambling Control Commission, category 1 ·Baytree (Alderney) Limitedread on 2026-10-21 · public register
- Canadian siteyes, a Canadian landing page
- Frenchyes, a French-Canadian page
- Provincial sitenone
- PlatformGames Global platform, Super Group
Landing page: the operator’s Canadian home pageLanding page named in the operator's programme link sheet, 14 October 2026. We publish no amounts.
Open Royal VegasOur page on itCommercial link · 19+ (18+ in AB, MB, QC) · operator’s terms apply · checked 21.10.2026
Grizzly's Quest Casino
Licence on the recordAlderney Gambling Control Commission, category 1 ·Baytree (Alderney) Limitedread on 2026-10-21 · public register- Canadian siteinternational page only
- Frenchyes, a French-Canadian page
- Provincial sitenone
- PlatformGames Global platform, Super Group
Landing page: the operator’s Canadian home pageLanding page named in the operator's programme link sheet, 14 October 2026. We publish no amounts.
Open Grizzly's Quest CasinoCommercial link · 19+ (18+ in AB, MB, QC) · operator’s terms apply · checked 21.10.2026
- Licence on the recordAlderney Gambling Control Commission, category 1 ·Baytree (Alderney) Limitedread on 2026-10-21 · public register
- Canadian siteyes, a Canadian landing page
- Frenchyes, a French-Canadian page
- Provincial sitenone
- PlatformGames Global platform, Super Group
Landing page: the operator’s Canadian home pageLanding page named in the operator's programme link sheet, 14 October 2026. We publish no amounts.
Open Gaming Club CasinoOur page on itCommercial link · 19+ (18+ in AB, MB, QC) · operator’s terms apply · checked 21.10.2026
The four terms that decide what an offer is worth
Four clauses do almost all of the work, and a player who reads only those four (in the order below) has read the offer. The first is the "wagering requirement", the multiple described above; the second is the "base" it applies to, since a multiple on the bonus alone is one thing and the same multiple on "deposit and bonus" together is exactly twice the obligation (the fourth field in the calculator exists for that reason alone).
The third is the "max cashout", a ceiling on what can be withdrawn from winnings attributable to the bonus, and in our reading it is the clause that most often turns a large offer into a small one (a hundred-dollar ceiling will do it to any figure you like). A ceiling of a hundred dollars on an offer of five hundred means that four hundred of the five hundred can be staked and never collected, so that the money is real while it is in play ("bonus funds", in the terms) and notional the moment a player tries to take it out.
The fourth is the "expiry", counted in days from the moment the bonus is credited rather than from the first stake, and it decides whether the first three clauses are reachable at all; a seven-day window and a thirty-five times multiple are not compatible with a working week. Thirty-five times a hundred over seven days is five hundred dollars of stake a day, every day, and a player who works for a living is being handed an obligation he cannot physically discharge.
Two further clauses are worth a glance although they are rarely decisive. "Game weighting", where slots count fully towards the requirement and table games count at ten or twenty per cent (so that an hour of blackjack moves the counter by a fifth of what the clock suggests), and the "maximum stake" per spin while a bonus is active, which is the clause that voids a bonus retroactively more often than any other.
What the landing page tells you before you read anything
There is one reading a player can make before reaching the terms at all, and it costs him nothing: the address of the page the button opens.
The programme sheet behind this site names a destination for every brand and every market, and the destination is written into the "path" of the address, so that "/3steps/free-games/" is a no-deposit landing, "/mm/" is the one-dollar entry (the "Mega Moolah" ticket, on most of these brands), and "wave/min5" is the five-dollar one.
That reading matters because the type of landing page predicts the shape of the terms rather better than the size of the figure does. A no-deposit offer almost always carries a max cashout and a short expiry, since the operator is giving away stake rather than matching it, while a deposit match of the ordinary kind carries a higher ceiling or none at all, and a longer window (thirty days rather than seven) to use it in.
The cards on this page therefore say which kind of page each link opens, in the box where a figure would normally sit (the "offer" line, under the licence). It is a smaller claim than "up to fifteen hundred dollars", and it has the advantage of being checkable by anybody with a browser, which is the trade we make on every page here.
An operator that publishes its terms in full?
Spin Genie
MGA/CRP/171/2009/01 · Skill On Net Limited
Landing page: the operator’s Canadian home pageLanding page named in the operator's programme link sheet, 14 October 2026. We publish no amounts.
Open Spin GenieCommercial link · 19+ (18+ in AB, MB, QC) · operator’s terms apply · checked 21.10.2026
The comparison that puts the Canadian market in proportion
A reader who wants to know whether a thirty-five times requirement is normal has nowhere domestic to look, because neither Ontario nor Alberta permits an affiliate to describe an offer at all (Standard 2.05 in one province, section 4.1 of the SRIG in the other) and the rest of Canada has no regulator setting terms. The nearest available yardstick sits in Great Britain, and we think it is worth borrowing for the purpose.
Since the nineteenth of January 2026 the Gambling Commission's "social responsibility code" has capped the wagering requirement a licensee may apply at ten times (provision 5.1.1, which also forbids mixing betting, casino, bingo and lottery inside one "incentive"). A British player therefore cannot lawfully be offered the thirty-five times that passes without comment in the offshore market serving Canada, and the same operator will often run both arrangements side by side.
That gap is not an accusation against anybody; it is the single most useful number on this page (ten against thirty-five, which is a factor of three and a half). It tells a Canadian reader where his market sits relative to a market somebody has regulated, and it hands a reader a figure to compare against rather than an adjective.
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What we checked, and the part you have to check yourself
The multiples, the ceilings and the expiry windows in this trade change without notice and without an announcement, which is the reason no figure of that kind appears on this page attached to a brand; a table of them would be a snapshot sold as a fact.
Where we quote a term, the quotation carries the party who published it and the date of our reading. Where we could not read it, the card says the terms are on the operator's site and leaves the space empty rather than filling it with something plausible.
There is also a reading we cannot make on your behalf at all. The brands running on the Games Global platform refuse a connection from outside Canada (an "HTTP 403", which is a server declining a region rather than a page being broken), so their terms could not be opened from where this site is built, and the clauses behind them are known to us only as the programme describes them.
What remains for you is small and it is the step that decides everything. Before accepting an offer, a reader should open the terms, find the four clauses named above (they are rarely more than a paragraph each), and put the multiple and the base into the calculator at the top of this page: if the number that comes out is larger than you would have staked anyway over the next month, the offer is costing you the difference rather than giving you anything.
Questions readers ask
Why does this page not say how big the bonuses are?
Because the figure is the one part of an offer that tells you nothing about the offer: a large bonus at a high "wagering" multiple obliges you to stake more than a small one at a low multiple, and the figure goes stale the week the programme changes it. The calculator on this page turns whatever figure you are looking at into the number that matters, which is the total you must stake.
What is a wagering requirement, in plain terms?
The number of times the bonus (or, in the harsher version, the deposit and the bonus together) must be staked before anything can be withdrawn. At thirty-five times on a bonus of one hundred, the stake required is three thousand five hundred; at the same thirty-five times on deposit and bonus together, it becomes seven thousand.
Is a lower wagering requirement always better?
Nearly always, and the exception is worth knowing: a low multiple attached to a "max cashout" clause caps what you can take out however well the session goes, so a generous-looking multiple can sit beside a ceiling that makes the generosity theoretical.
Do these offers apply in Ontario and Alberta?
No, and not because the operators withhold them. Both provinces forbid an affiliate from communicating an "inducement" at all, so our Ontario and Alberta pages carry the operators without any offer attached, which is the regulator's rule and not our editorial choice.
By the Canadian Dollar Casinos editorial team · Last updated October 2026 · Online since 2012
